Cyngor Bro Morgannwg
Vale of Glamorgan Council

Plans shown to date, including on the policy documents on the portal and in the public domain remain confusing and misleading. I am aware that some corrections have been made via social media but I strongly feel the Authority should demonstrate how the proposed accesses will work more accurately now, not at some future date.

HG1 KS3 LAND AT READERS WAY, RHOOSE
Any access via Celtic Way is inadequate and will cause hardship and-loss of local amenity for existing residents.

The plan shows the access to the East as the Primary access and the one leading to Celtic way as the Secondary. Given that Celtic way is unsuitable for a large increase in traffic flow due to the amount of on road parking and the fact that that some 50 houses have to reverse off their drive into the traffic flow. Local children will have to cross a busy road to access the playground. Local residents will have to contend with increased noise and air pollution severely affecting their quality of life and wellbeing. Celtic Way is a quiet, safe cul-de-sac not designed for volume traffic including (these days) increased numbers of delivery vehicles from online purchases. No doubt many applications for reductions in Council tax will follow if this is approved..

Even for a secondary access, Celtic Way is unsuitable. Access is only via two routes. First via the Fontygary Inn traffic lights which are a pinch point with width for one vehicle at a time and no public pavement for the safety of pedestrians. Traffic often backs up beyond the entrance to Celtic Way & I have photographs of this including associated queues on Fontygary Road. This is not an uncommon occurrence and will become intolerable with additional housing. Second access is via the single track road through Fonmon where there are numerous issues with reversing vehicles in the narrow lane, including some quite ugly road rage incidents.

Whilst not ideal, a completely separate access directly off the bypass should be considered. This would utilise a new roundabout at the existing Fomonn junction with a link road via the proposed solar farm site. The bypass junction has seen several accidents and even fatalities so is in need of improvement. A new access is already required for the solar farm traffic so a short extension to the Readers Way site would cause minimal additional environmental impact. Access via Readers Way and Celtic Way could then be restricted to walking/cycling only generating minimal noise & air pollution to existing residents.

Photographs of congestion / gridlock at Fontygary inn traffic lights taken on 5th March 2026 at approx 3:30PM are attached to the accompanying Email. Please link them to this representation.
Photo FRT1 shows the queue which also extended behind us up Fontygary Rd at least as far as Tesco Express. One car can be seen attempting to turn around.
Photo FRT2 Two changes of lights later, we're still queuing and no traffic has moved.
Photo FRT3 & FRT4 Waiting to turn right, queue is partially cleared but still backed up due to delivery lorry in single vehicle space clearing the lights. A school bus is waiting and will cause further queues. As you can see, the queue extends across the access to Celtic Way.

As stated above, this is not a rare occurrence, It demonstrates the complete unsuitability of introducing hundreds more cars and vans onto Celtic Way on traffic flow grounds that affect large parts of Rhoose.