Connectivity

Volunteering, trainee, citizen science links with work of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust Training, employment and public engagement Links with Southern Water operations for The Bay

Work with Portsmouth University continuing on Imagination Refinery at BA and MA

‘Stepping stone’ tourism site between National Cycleway 23 and Sandown work with new BID on Bay marketing

Training, employment and other collaborations with golf club

Support for school grounds management

Curricular and extracurricular support for Sandown Bay Academy

Support for Fairfield and Roseway greenspaces/pocketparks pocketparks

Support for management of Los Altos park

Links with Sandown Station for community and visitor transport, station grounds and facilities

Curricular and extracurricular support for the Bay Primary

Employment and marketing Links with local tourism providers

Collaboration with Southern Housing on improving Perowne Way public greens for people and wildlife

New community facilities for Perowne Way neighbourhoods

Work with Bournemouth and Glasgow Universities on the Bay marine research project

We see the Sandham site redeveloped to provide 4 key benefits to The Bay and the Island as a whole:

1. A sustainable community centre, with flexible, hireable business and leisure space; a tourism destination as well as a public facility; an inspiring common space, permanently useful to local people.

2. An enabling affordable and custom residential development providing a rental model that sustains the Imagination Refinery. The housing scheme will itself be run on IR principles, providing educational and employment opportunities as it is built, delivering high-specification homes for energy and water conservation; designing a neighbourhood that opens into the existing community of Perowne Way, creating new shared spaces for all.

3. New public realm with space for play, exploration, wildlife encounter and learning; linking with public access and public transport including the national cycleway and Islandline.

4. A ‘halo’ of immediate benefits to public facilities, spaces and services through the outreach delivery of the sharing economy hub at IR.

The Greenfield Option

The Brownfield Option