Cyngor Bro Morgannwg
Vale of Glamorgan Council

Traffic Congestion
Currently the main route(s) out of Dinas Powys ; Cardiff Rd and Pen-y-Turnpike Road are already heavily congested at peak times this is further exacerbated when an accident occurs and emergency vehicles require urgent access through the village. One of the key bottlenecks affecting this at the moment is the junction with Redlands Road the primary entrance to the suggested site is next to this bottleneck and adding potentially 500 more vehicles to this already hectic congestion at the point of the bottleneck is going to cause severe disruption to the Emergency services and will undoubtedly cost lives. The air pollution of this increasingly growing stream of slow moving traffic is not to be underestimated either for people living with conditions such as Asthma and COPD, also the additional traffic will back up next to the primary school on Cardiff Rd.
The Active Travel Plan Proposed by Persimmon is fundamentally flawed Trains to Cardiff at peak times are already overcrowded / full to capacity at peak times in the morning and evening by the time the trains arrive at Eastbrook. on many occasions passengers at Cogan are left on the platform due to trains being full. There is also no facility at Eastbrook station for persons with mobility issues or parents with pushchairs to cross the line. Local schools are already at capacity therefore any new intake of children would need to travel by road outside of the village adding to congestion at peak times. Increased Flooding.
The ground where this site is proposed is already saturated and is hence holding back a tremendous amount of rainwater from entering the Victorian drainage system along Cardiff Road. placing a concrete slab along many thousands of square metres of this green belt will instantaneously purge any rainfall in the future directly into Eastbrook putting the current properties around the site at severe risk of flooding along with properties downstream of the site within the village which are already in a Floodrisk area. this floodrisk area will grow until unethical schemes such as this are stopped on greenfield sites upstream. Dinas Powys Medical centre have not been consulted over this process and are currently at capacity with limited availability to serve the current patients. additional patients of this number would put them in breach of current Government guidelines of practitioner to patient support. The Local schools are also at capacity and have also not been consulted about where any additional children would be educated and by whom ?

In Conclusion this choice of site benefits no-one with the exception of the Persimmon shareholders who will gladly take their dividend payments without giving a 2nd thought towards paying for the infrastructure improvement absolutely necessary for this project to go ahead as suggested. There are many brown field sites available where a whole new community can be set up and established. People have to live somewhere but this should not be at the expense of the Eco system as without that there is no life.