Newport Summarised

• The largest sub-county unit on the Isle of Wight

Newport is characterised by mismatch:

• The largest Island student population, the youth centre of the Island

• between its built, natural and human resources and its socio-economic performance

• The centre of employment and the driver of IW GDP

• between its extensive and predominantly rural hinterland and its concentrated urban core

• The centre of healthcare, education and public decision-making

• between its areas of nationally significant deprivation and adjacent affluence

• The centre of banking and legal services

• between its identity as civic and political centre and its lack of identity as county capital

• The capital of the Island