Cyngor Bro Morgannwg
Vale of Glamorgan Council

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.