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1 Ymgynghoriad ar Cynllun Datblygu Lleol Newydd
ID sylw: 5442
Derbyniwyd: 08/03/2026
Respondent ID: 1348
Ymatebydd: Mr Matt Cooper
Cadarn? Nac Ydi
This seems an odd question to ask with no word limit when any housing development is likely to have limited impact on the welsh language.
I believe this short-term housing plan conflicts with long-term strategic goals. It threatens established habitats and farmland, especially at Weycocks Cross, contradicting the Vale of Glamorgan Public Services board’s climate and nature aims. The proposal encroaches on the Green Wedge, which is planned to be moved, undermining its purpose. Additionally, it would increase traffic congestion and pollution along Port Road, negatively affecting the Council’s and Welsh Government’s plans for the airport and surrounding area.
It is recognised that the number of candidate sites is limited which reduces semi viable options to sites that under normal circumstances would not likely be considered. The plan should further consider areas of brownfield sites where the site is out of use and where the the Council could indicate consideration of an approach to the landowner and the potential for compulsory purchase where that land is not in commercial, housing or industrial use.
The plan is a short term solution to providing housing that run directly against a number of wider strategic long term issues. With particular reference to the land at Weycocks Cross, only last year the Vale of Glamorgan Public Services board launched a charter to tackle climate change and nature loss and yet this proposal would see established habitat and farmland lost forever, an encroachment onto the Green Wedge which, now inconvenient to the development, is planned to be moved which undermines its point. There will be an inevitable effect on Port Road, increased traffic congestion and pollutions which undermines the Council and Welsh Governments commercial plans for the airport and wider area.