Needles Radio Site Needles Battery Road Totland Isle Of Wight Data via plota.co.uk

26/00971/FUL - Full Planning Permission Approved

Proposal

Proposed replacement lattice mast attached to MCA station; installation of CCTV cameras, thermal camera and radar antenna Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
20 Jul 2026
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Validated
3 Aug 2026
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Approved
16 Sept 2026

Approved on 16 Sept 2026 · Planning Officer Delegated Decision · Last checked 19 Sept 2026

Documents 22

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Site constraints 7

Nutrient neutrality catchment: Solent: Includes Chichester and Langstone Harbours SPA/Ramsar, Solent and Southampton Water SPA/Ramsar, Solent Maritime SAC, Portsmouth Harbour SPA/Ramsar
New homes and overnight accommodation must show nutrient neutrality before approval.
Natural England advice: extra wastewater in these catchments harms protected habitats, so schemes must offset their nutrient load, usually through credits.
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
4 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin; Special protection area about 379 m away: Solent and Dorset Coast; National landscape about 319 m away: Isle Of Wight; SSSI about 446 m away: Headon Warren and West High Down SSSI; Inside the Freshwater and Totland built-up area.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 17 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Application type
Full Planning Permission
Received
20 Jul 2026
Validated
3 Aug 2026
Ward
Totland And Colwell
Parish
Totland
Case officer
Show
Decision
Granted
Decision date
16 Sept 2026
Decision level
Planning Officer Delegated Decision
Applicant
Show
Agent
Tunji Adebayo & Co.

How this decision compares

Decided in 44 days from validation, 12 days faster than Isle of Wight's median of 56 for full applications. Approved, as 88% of full applications here are.

74%decided within 8 weeks
88%approved
239decided in the last year

Plota live figures for full applications decided by Isle of Wight in the last twelve months, from validation. Isle of Wight decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 19 Sept 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-15087181
Planning Portal ref
PP-15087181
Comments by
7 Sept 2026
Statutory expiry
28 Sept 2026
Env. assessment
No
Isle of Wight
Planning Authority Score
8.9/10
Excellent
#7 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Isle of Wight is one of the fastest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #11 out of 296. Only 15% of applications have the time limit extended, well below the 41% national average - the council usually decides on time. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (95%) than the national average (90%).

Among the fastest councils in England
for householder decisions
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Isle of Wight decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
92%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #84 of 296
95%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #81 of 296
92%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #11 of 296
15%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #11 of 296
84%
Minor dwellings approved
144 decided (1-9 homes)
67%
Major dwellings approved
18 decided (10+ homes)
94%
Change of use approved
34 decided
792
Total decisions
63 refused in the year to March 2026