Cyngor Bro Morgannwg
Vale of Glamorgan Council

I am objecting to the inclusion of grounds Site ID 4069 Land East of Colwinston on two principal grounds. These are:
1. The unjustified redrawing of the settlement boundary to include candidate site 4069
2. inclusion of this site for affordable housing, being insustainable and unviable and likely to cause significant irreversible damage to village heritage status.

The inclusion of this site is it fails to reflect planning policies and LDP objectives. It fails on the majority of Impact Sustainability objectives and should not be approved for inclusion in the final LDP.

Furthermore, inclusion of this site is not supported by the Integrated Site Impact Assessment contravening almost all of the stated Sustainability Objectives within the LDP itself.

The digital approach adopted in this consultation is likely to have excluded and alienated many people in the local community from being able to participate.

Taken together with recent developments in the village the proposed growth of the settlement is not proportionate to the scale of the historic village and is damaging to its conservation status and community cohesion. It is not supported by evidence of settlement based housing
need.

This site has been judged as unsuitable several previous occasions by the Local Authority.

This change in decision is not supported by the continued adverse impact assessment and non compliance with its own and national policies.

There are known drainage and flooding issues in and around this site together with sewerage system capacity connectivity issues with the Cowbridge Wastewater Treatment Works.

During times of heavy rainfall the flood risk management system installed at the recent development at Heol Cae Pwll struggles to cope with run off from the adjacent fields and the culverts are often blocked and poorly maintained. This puts existing housing at risk and adding more homes would only make the problem worse.

Increased levels of car use from the previous housing and primary school development has already adversely affected traffic flows, parking, safe walking and cycling throughout the whole village. The two A48 junctions do not meet current planning requirements. Thus any
improvements to village roads would have unacceptable character changing impacts.

This site does not meet transport sustainability objectives. Colwinston lacks direct links to public transport (Greenlinks is an inadequate alternative) and increased traffic from development and the school already compromises safety for walking and cycling. The complete lack of public transport links makes it completely non-sensical to build affordable houses at this site and would isolate the very people meant to be homed there.