Cyngor Bro Morgannwg
Vale of Glamorgan Council

Remove allocation and reconsider alternative brownfield sites.

This site is adjacent to the earlier Heol Cae Pwll Development and St Davids Church in Wales rebuild. These projects as predicted exacerbated a wide range of existing local service issues from drainage, flooding, sewerage, access, gas, electricity and narrow and congested highways. Although mains gas was promised it and similarly a sophisticated underground Attenuation Tank, neither materialised. It was only after Senedd intervention that sewerage upgrades were implemented and serious potential Sewerage issues were for the time being averted. Nevertheless the area above the site from the A48 naturally drains via Heol Cae Pwll, Beech Park, Church Lane and The Vines. Flooding in the lower areas often closing the roads is however a still frequent occurrence. The lack of mains services along with attendant HGV's delivering Oil and Gas alongside heavy Farm Traffic makes the lanes very congested, even impossible at School drop off and collection times. This is only offset by the operation of a voluntary one way system at such times. Heol Cae Pwll represented a 42% increase in housing stock and against the background summarised above was always going to create problems. The standard of driving by out of area drivers also presents a very serious accident risk. Cutting corners and failing to give consideration to other users is also a major issue. All of which was predicted prior to the Heol Cae Development. As things stand it is a fact that we can no longer continually erode agricultural land at serious risk to the environment, food security and our climate. As such there should be a presumption against such rural developments and reconsideration given to for example the previous proposed Llandow Newedd brown field site.