Cyngor Bro Morgannwg
Vale of Glamorgan Council

I am objecting to the building of these homes in Dinas Powys. It is completely wrong for this location. There are significant challenges already and these homes will exacerbate an already challenging situation. I live in Dinas Powys and I am an elderly mum who lives on my own. I rely a lot on my daughter for help, who lives in Penarth. She is often travelling down the Cardiff Rd towards Dinas Powys and often sitting in traffic jams, nose to tail all the way from Penarth to Dinas Powys and beyond. If I needed her urgently, I already worry about the time it would take her to get here and adding so many extra cars would cause so much more traffic, it will be complete deadlock and this causes me a lot of concern. There also a lot of potholes which would be made worse by a lot more traffic on the roads. This considerable increase in traffic at a constant standstill will also greatly affect air pollution and air quality, which I also worry about as I have asthma which affects me a lot and I could be adversely affected by any decline in air quality in the area. As well as all these concerns the traffic deadlock would also present a significant risk by preventing the ability of emergency services to get to where they need to get to and therefore prevent existing and new residents from getting the emergency help they need. Lives would be lost by continuing with this development.

Transport links in the area are not good. Eastbrook station has inadequate parking and cannot be used by anyone with mobility issues/ prams etc. I cannot use it myself as I cannot manage all the steps across the tracks. And users from the new estate would again have to use the Cardiff Rd to get there, again increasing pressure on an already gridlocked road. This would be nightmare for local residents who will be continuously stuck in traffic.

I am also worried that the development will increase the risk of flooding as the road has flooded very close to my home and any increase in flooding could result in my home being flooded and a lot of damage, stress and trauma to me and as I am elderly etc I would find this situation impossible to deal with. Homes have been flooded in Dinas Powys and I do not think the Council should be building homes in a way which increases risk to other residents of the area.

I'm also worried about the lack of infrastructure such as schools and Doctors in the area. As you know a surgery closed in Penarth causing my mum’s surgery in Dinas Powys to have to take a significant number of extra patients. Since then, I have found it very difficult to get an appointment to see a Dr and all these extra households could only make this situation a lot worse. As a vulnerable, elderly person this is a great concern for me. There will also be no extra school for new residents of this new estate also putting pressure on an already difficult school situation. This is an unacceptable burden on already stretched services and should not be allowed. These extra homes would also put pressure on our hospitals and maternity services and other NHS services which are already stretched and waiting lists are already incredibly long. My daughter recently waited nearly 5 years for a routine operation and this had a big impact on her life and I worry this would get even worse by the extra demand created by these new homes. The impact on people’s lives could be extremely detrimental as they wait even longer for these services.

The UK is extremely depleted for nature and the Vale is no exception. We have an incredibly small percentage of our land given over to nature and wildlife. Destroying this large area of nature will have a massive and devastating effect on our wildlife and this is unacceptable at a time when we should be supporting nature not destroying it. This development would eat into valuable greenbelt land and effectively merge Dinas Powys and Llandough. This would be completely unacceptable and should not go ahead. Greenbelt is there for a reason and it should be protected not removed. This development would be extremely bad for nature and the green belt and it should not be allowed to go ahead.

Dinas Powys is a small friendly village and it prides itself on its village identity. This large development would completely ruin this identity and alter the nature of the village for ever. This is not progress, it is the destruction of a valued and treasured identity and it should be allowed to happen.