Cyngor Bro Morgannwg
Vale of Glamorgan Council

wish to raise my objections to the development. You have not thought this through properly. Traffic is a nightmare at the best of times and adding this many houses to an already populated area is ludicrous idea. Your suggestion that people will use public transport is nonsensical. We know people don’t use public transport when it’s nearby to them. People will not walk half an hour plus to the nearest train station - they will either drive to the train station or instead drive to their destination. To suggest otherwise is crazy. Children will be taken to school in cars - you can promote sustainable choices of travel as much as you want but the reality is people don’t walk or cycle - they drive.

Secondly, I object for reasons that you have spent significant time and money restructuring the road layout at Weycock cross and that is now most likely going to be wasted and changed so you can accommodate these new houses. Yet again this appears to be a situation where you are wasting tax payers money and have no competent planning.

Thirdly, the traffic mentioned above will affect the airport. There have been numerous instances where one accident/roadworks can cause gridlock to the WHOLE of the west end of Barry. Your proposals will seek to make this worse. This will have obvious implications for anyone trying to use the airport and put people off using an already failing airport.

You might say that you will ensure the developers will implement measures to alleviate this issues. We all know that won’t happen. Once the houses are built, the developer has its money, they will leave the local residents to deal with this mess and you will do NOTHING to sort it out. You will not seek to enforce them to comply with the agreement.

Next, Barry is over populated. You are not building any additional schools, doctors, dentists etc to cope with this additional demand. Such services are already over subscribed and to say otherwise demonstrates your lack of understanding of the communities you serve.

I get very little for the council tax I pay and I’m not prepared to subsidise yet more individuals who contribute very little or nothing at all due to your council tax exemptions/discretions.

Faith in the council is at an all time low. Listen to the residents who live, know and breathe the area and know the real difficulties this development will create. Try and restore some faith back into residents that you have our best interests at heart and that you’re not in the pockets of local developers and lining your own pockets.

Please ensure my comments are taken forward as part of the proposal.