LDP Site(3/2/16) and Planning(10/2/16) Meetings

A number of residents attended the County Council site meeting at Parc Radur on 3rd February which had been arranged to look at the location of the proposed development of 630 houses.  Cllr McKerlich questioned the officers regarding the risk of sink holes, flooding from local streams and nearby land, and also the effects of the new development on traffic.       No meaningful answers were given.  Plaid Cymru have organised a meeting at the OCR on Monday 8th February at 7:30pm to discuss the application and the Local Development Plan in general.  The Planning application comes before Planning Committee at County Hall on Wednesday 10^th February at 2.30pm. The public are welcome to attend this meeting.

On Wednesday 10 February Cardiff Council Planners approved the planning application by Redrow Homes for the building of 630 homes north and south of the Llantrisant Road. Despite valiant efforts by Cllr Rod McKerlich and Nick Hawkins, Secretary of the R&M Association, to get the Council to understand the plans were flawed, the application was passed on a majority vote. You can read the positive bulletin on BBC News here. which is described by Redrow, the developer, as a “flagship garden city development”

South Wales Echo – Thursday 11th Februrary 2016

‘Plasdwr’   Nick Hawkins from the R&M Association handed a petitition of 686 signatures in.  He said Radyr suffered from a lack of facilites.   Like many parts of Cardiff facilities in Radyr and Morganstown are already overloaded for many services.  The local Welsh School was in Leckwith and health services were overstretched.   

The reality could be 1000 extra cars during the peak.  Saying that buses will ‘slip’ unhindered through Llandaff into the city is naive.     The group had hoped the granting of the LDP would help their pleas but say it is ‘little more than a poor wishlist’, much of which house builders will wriggle out of providing.  We have been here before, we have had lots of new houses built, lots of promises of a new primary school and community centre, have they materialised?  NO they have not!

He ended his three minute slot by saying, ‘in truth, this application is for development in the wrong place at the wrong time and will bring discredit to both Cardiff and the planners’.

Opposition was raised by three Council members – Cllr Rod McKerlich, Cllr Paul Mitchell and Cllr Neil McEvoy.

Further development

An application has been submitted to build 300 houses on land west of Llantrisant Road at Goitre Fach Farm, Capel Llanilltern alongside the old railway line.  This is addition to the development at the BBC site in Llandaff for 400 houses.

Total to date:  1330 houses