Branstone Farm

The Isle of Wight Council and a range of Island businesses and organisations has been involved in creating a new £13. 6 million scheme including affordable housing, an outdoor education area, new green space, a rural business park area, and a new brewery and visitor centre for Goddard's Brewery at Branstone Farm. Nature and sustainability are at the heart of this flagship regeneration scheme which the Isle of Wight Council and its partners hope will serve as an exemplar for future development on the Island. Inspired by the Isle of Wight Biosphere declaration in 2019, a group of organisations including Vectis Housing Association, the council's regeneration team, the Isle of Wight Chamber of Commerce and other local partners have secured funding and planning consents to begin the creation of a new rural area where the Biosphere principles of live, work and play can come to life. With a focus on the Isle of Wight's Biosphere, about half of the farm site will become a new public green space which will be open to all, and include hedges, new woodland, ponds and an outdoor education area. This will continue the tradition of education on the farm, which was established by the then Isle of Wight County Council as the Branstone Farm Studies Centre in 1973. The Isle of Wight AONB Partnership has been leading on the Isle of Wight Biosphere, and will be one of the first organisations to be based in the new Branstone Farm project. Finance for the work has come from the partners and from national funds, with nearly £4 million coming from Homes England and the Solent LEP.
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