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1 Ymgynghoriad ar Cynllun Datblygu Lleol Newydd
ID sylw: 6855
Derbyniwyd: 11/03/2026
Respondent ID: 3285
Ymatebydd: Mr Charles Pleasants
Cadarn? Heb nodi
HGI KS2
The idea of inserting 250 new houses on the land North of the Cardiff Road close to The Merrie Harrier seems most unsound. Two problems already beset Dinas in this area: an overload of traffic with associated pollution, and flooding.
In the first half of the 1990s, air quality monitoring in Dinas revealed there were regularly spikes in motor pollutants near busy thoroughfares such as Cardiff Road, while in 2017 concerns were highlighted about pollution there, with measurements sometimes approaching or exceeding legal limits, particularly around traffic bottlenecks such as the Murch traffic lights at the school. Any increase in traffic, that would inevitably follow adding 250 more houses with associated vehicle activity, would lengthen traffic queues all the way through Dinas and produce even more of a pollution threat. Gridlocks already plague Cardiff Road through the village, morning and evening, such that the smell of the fumes hangs heavily all along the road.
The elevation above sea level around The Merrie Harrier is approx. 10 metres, the centre of Dinas c.3 metres. In recent years residents have suffered flooding in their homes, so there can be no doubt that, given the worsening of climate change effects, this is not going to get any better. Establishing an extensive housing area in that elevated region by Cardiff Road is bound to increase the flooding threat to the rest of the settlement, both because the absorbent function of the land as it is now(fields/agricultural), would be lost, and the hard surfaces associated with housing, mean run off would accelerate after the land's water retention ends. Much more water would be heading into the centre of the village, overwhelming the River Cadoxton.
HGI KS2
The idea of inserting 250 new houses on the land North of the Cardiff Road close to The Merrie Harrier seems most unsound. Two problems already beset Dinas in this area: an overload of traffic with associated pollution, and flooding.
In the first half of the 1990s, air quality monitoring in Dinas revealed there were regularly spikes in motor pollutants near busy thoroughfares such as Cardiff Road, while in 2017 concerns were highlighted about pollution there, with measurements sometimes approaching or exceeding legal limits, particularly around traffic bottlenecks such as the Murch traffic lights at the school. Any increase in traffic, that would inevitably follow adding 250 more houses with associated vehicle activity, would lengthen traffic queues all the way through Dinas and produce even more of a pollution threat. Gridlocks already plague Cardiff Road through the village, morning and evening, such that the smell of the fumes hangs heavily all along the road.
The elevation above sea level around The Merrie Harrier is approx. 10 metres, the centre of Dinas c.3 metres. In recent years residents have suffered flooding in their homes, so there can be no doubt that, given the worsening of climate change effects, this is not going to get any better. Establishing an extensive housing area in that elevated region by Cardiff Road is bound to increase the flooding threat to the rest of the settlement, both because the absorbent function of the land as it is now(fields/agricultural), would be lost, and the hard surfaces associated with housing, mean run off would accelerate after the land's water retention ends. Much more water would be heading into the centre of the village, overwhelming the River Cadoxton.