New housing in Isle of Wight Council
We read Isle of Wight Council's planning register every day. We hold 13,647 of its planning applications going back to 2010, and 51 of those made in the last 12 months are for new homes.
It delivered 37% of the homes it needed in the 2025 Housing Delivery Test, below the 75% at which national policy treats it as having an unmet need for housing.
Key facts
- Local Plan
- Not recorded yet.
- Five-year housing land supply
- Not recorded yet.
- Housing Delivery Test
- 37% (2025): presumption
- Local Plan sites we hold
- None loaded yet.
- Planning applications we hold
- 13,647
Applications for new homes, by year
Applications we have identified as being for new homes, by the year they were made. Approved and refused count those decided so far.
| Year | Applications | Approved | Refused |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 47 | 22 | 8 |
| 2025 | 52 | 40 | 3 |
| 2024 | 61 | 40 | 14 |
| 2023 | 78 | 40 | 26 |
| 2022 | 99 | 66 | 24 |
| 2021 | 87 | 50 | 26 |
The largest housing schemes of the last three years
| Homes | Site | Status | Made |
|---|---|---|---|
| 127 | OS Parcel 0059 Camp Road Freshwater Isle Of Wight Outline for a residential development comprising of 127 dwellings; access roads with a proposed junction onto Camp Road; Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) provision and landscaping. 25/01505/OUT | Awaiting decision | 24 Oct 2025 |
| 38 | Land At The Lodge Main Road Rookley Ventnor Isle Of Wight PO38 3NQ Outline for 38 dwellings; to include access roads and parking with associated landscaping, biodiversity enhancements and a SUDS pond with access being considered 25/01332/OUT | Awaiting decision | 19 Sept 2025 |
| 14 | Land Adjacent To 77 Place Road Cowes Isle Of Wight PO31 7AE Approval of reserved matters on 20/02229/OUT (Outline for 14 dwellings; alterations to access) relating to landscaping (revised plans) 25/00785/RES | Approved | 29 May 2025 |
| 13 | Wentworth House 23 Hope Road Shanklin Isle Of Wight PO37 6ED Proposed alterations and conversion of building from Hotel (Class C1) to 13 dwellings (Class C3) with associated car parking, refuse storage and landscaping. 26/00005/FUL | Awaiting decision | 22 Jan 2026 |
| 10 | Tarvic 2 Hotel 13 - 15 Culver Parade Sandown Isle Of Wight PO36 8AS Demolition of fire damaged part of hotel; proposed construction of block of 10 residential flats; alterations to access and parking 24/01851/FUL | Refused | 7 Jan 2025 |
| 8 | Roseglen Hotel 12 Palmerston Road Shanklin Isle Of Wight PO37 6AS Proposed change of use of hotel into 8 residential flats with associated alterations 25/01611/FUL | Approved | 6 Nov 2025 |
| 7 | 52 54 And 56 Fitzroy Street And 66 And 68 Station Avenue Sandown Isle Of Wight Partial demolition of side extension; Proposed conversion, alterations and side extension to form 7 flats 24/00762/FUL | Approved | 29 May 2024 |
| 6 | Esplanade Hotel 32 Esplanade Shanklin Isle Of Wight PO37 6BG Proposed alterations and change of use of former hotel to form six flats 25/01844/FUL | Approved | 26 Jan 2026 |
| 5 | Land Adjacent Keats House Union Road Ryde Isle Of Wight Proposed block of 5 flats with associated landscaping 26/00274/FUL | Refused | 30 Mar 2026 |
| 5 | Flats 1, 2, 3 And 4 Of 14 Park Road And 29 Clarendon Road Shanklin Isle Of Wight PO37 6AY Change of use from 5 dwellings (C3 use) to a Residential Children and Parent(s) Assessment Centre (C2 use). 24/01897/FUL | Refused | 23 Dec 2024 |
Towns and villages
See every field round the edge of a town or village, scored for how likely it is to be built on.
- Alverstone Garden Village
- Apse Heath
- Arreton
- Bembridge
- Bouldnor
- Brading
- Brighstone
- Chale Green
- Cowes
- East Cowes
- Fishbourne (Isle of Wight)
- Freshwater and Totland
- Godshill (Isle of Wight)
- Great Thorness
- Hale Common
- Havenstreet
- Hillway
- Merstone
- Newchurch (Isle of Wight)
- Newport (Isle of Wight)
- Niton
- Norton (Isle of Wight)
- Pondwell
- Rookley
- Ryde
- Sandown
- Seaview and Nettlestone
- Shalfleet
- Shanklin
- Shorwell
- St Helens (Isle of Wight)
- Ventnor
- Whitwell (Isle of Wight)
- Winford (Isle of Wight)
- Wootton (Isle of Wight)
- Wroxall
- Yarmouth
- Yaverland
Where this comes from
- Planning applications: Isle of Wight Council's online planning register, last read 14 Nov 2026.
- Housing Delivery Test: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
- How fields are scored: how the score works.