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Garden Grabbbing at Fairacre, Cardiff Road, Llandaff
2007-04-09 12:31:00
The Echo 7/4/07 reports Anger over plans to pull down mansion, by Katie Norman, South Wales Echo. Yet another example of garden grabbing and demolition! The proposed demolition of a tree-shrouded mansion has sparked fierce opposition from nearby residents. Pegasus Homes wants to build 33 new retirement apartments on the site of Fair acre, in Card iff Road, Llandaff, Cardiff.Heritage group the Llandaff Society has opposed the plan and Cardiff council officers have recommended its refusal - but the developer has pledged to persist.The project would involve widening Cardiff Road by demolishing a grass verge, which the council and Llandaff Society chairman Geoff Barton-Greenwood have opposed.He said: 'We (the society) think it is dangerous and silly to create greater congestion.It would change the street scene from semi-rural to something resembling a concrete highway'
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Hundreds in Radyr say no to luxury flats 'in the back garden'
2007-04-05 11:42:00
There was a story in the Echo last night about 'garden Grabbing' in Radyr.Residents are protesting about 19 luxury flats being built in the back garden of an historic house. The large garden of The Lodge, an empty 19th Century house in Drysgol Road, Radyr, Cardiff, has been earmarked for new flats with parking and landscaping but residents are outraged by the plans.Resident Alf Butler collected more than 400 signatures against the proposals from Drysgol Developments and was among some 40 people who gathered to protest during a Cardiff council planning committee site visit on Monday.....
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Another property to be demolished in Beulah Road Rhiwbina?
2007-04-03 20:14:00
Another property to be demolished in Rhiwbina! Picture taken by Beulah Road resident Mr Harley Jones.No. 23 - a bungalow which has been acquired by a developer with a planning application (No. 06/02843/W) for permission to demolish and replace it with a five bedroom dwelling and garage. Beulah street residents say 'In January 2006 the Rhiwbina & Pantmawr Liberal Demo crat Focus Team called on us with a petition on the grounds that 'the proposed development is likely to have a significant impact on the streetscape of the road, which has a very distinctive appearance within the village as a whole'.
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Pant Mawr Inn to be demolished
2007-03-20 17:30:00
Cardiff Campaign for Real Ale say that they have received reports that a planning application has been made to demolish the PantMawr Inn and replace it with a housing development. If the application has not been laid before the planning committee, Cardiff branch will object on grounds of loss of amenity.
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Jonathan Morgan AM says we are seeing more of Cardiff North turn into concr
2007-03-11 17:20:00
Johnathan says "You are probably aware that it was a Conservative MP who introduced the Bill tackling the garden grabbing problem. I find it astonishing that the council find it so easy to allow people to build in their gardens, in many roads it sets a dangerous precedent. Sadly we are seeing much of Card iff North turned into concrete. The rules should be tighter, simple as that. "Regards, Jonathan
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Thirty thousand gardens every year 'torn up' due to Prescott's
2007-03-11 13:58:00
All over the UK people are protesting against garden grabbing.Thirty thousand gardens every year 'torn up' due to Prescott's ...This is London - London,England,UKGarden s have been officially classified as brownfield land for 20 years but 'garden grabbing' emerged as a major problem after John Prescott altered the ...Write to you AM and ask them to pledge to stop this happen garden grabbing in Wales or they will lose your vote!
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Cardiff County councils policy on GARDEN GRABBING which they call SUBDIVISI
2007-03-11 13:32:00
The Council ’s UDP policy in subdivision is at section 2.4, subsection (policy) 2.22. You can access it here: and then click on the link at the bottom of the page if you want a PDF file version.
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On line petition to stop garden grabbing
2007-03-09 10:54:00
MPs back 'garden grab' campaign BBC News - UKGarden s covering the equivalent of 2755 football pitches will be lost by the year 2016, according to protesters trying to stop "garden grabbing". ...Charity Garden Organic is launching an online petition to stop housing estates being put on land which was once private gardens and homes.
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Garden grabs claim 30,000 plots a year
2007-03-09 10:52:00
Matthew Hickley, Daily Mail 8 March 2007Thirty thousand gardens a year are being concreted over to satisfy the demand for more housing.
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Proposed development at 56 – 60 Beulah Road…
2007-02-16 12:19:00
Proposed development at 56 – 60 Beulah Road …Carey Evans from Beulah Road wrote to residents this week and says that guys with theodolites were observed in the gardens above earlier last week….. it suggests that plans are progressing (5 or 6 or more bungalows?)Mobile number 07966 570075
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What do our local politicans think - Cllr Jane Cowan expresses concern...
2007-02-16 12:15:00
“I feel that there is an increasing trend for properties to split into 2 or more on the same site. I have seen sites in Rhiwbina which were a single bungalow, and can then get planning permission for two, 2-storey houses. I think that this fundamentally alters the character of an area, as well as the increased pressure on services – particularly roads " .
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Dismay as flats plan is agreed-
2007-02-16 11:22:00
Dismay as flats plan is agreed - The Philistines Win the day!!!Feb 15 2007 Gareth Rogers, South Wales Echo Heritage lovers were furious today after plans to develop flats at a listed Georgian villa were given the go-ahead. Cardiff council's planning committee granted permission for work to start on The Pines mansion, Heol Y Forlan, Whitchurch, Cardiff, at a meeting last night.In the face of fierce opposition to the plans to build four one-bedroom flats at the site, the committee voted by five votes to four to approve the development………….. Daphne Shepherd, of the Whitchurch Heritage Action Group, was also at the meeting hoping the plans for four flats in the mansion and seven separate houses on its grounds would be thrown out.
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Preserve our city heritage
2007-02-16 11:19:00
Preserve our city heritage a look back to see what others have said...I HAVE just read about Cardiff planning committee wanting to knock down Mill Cottage in Llanishen, Cardiff. What is wrong with these people? Pretty soon we will have no history left in Cardiff. They seem hell bent on knocking all the old buildings down and rebuilding with glass and chrome monstrosities.If you go into the city centre you could be in any city in Britain as they all look the same. Please leave the old buildings alone and let's have our own individual look and be proud of our city, not knock it down and rebuild with ugly buildings.Wednesday, 18 August South Wales Echo
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Fight back against developers
2007-02-11 16:43:00
From This is Money - UK'Garden grabbing' developments have delivered windfalls for those who have sold to builders. But the trend is becoming more concerning to those who are ...
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Write to your MP urges RSPB
2007-02-11 15:42:00
How you can helpPlease write to your local MP -AM and ask them to contact Rt Hon Ruth Kelly MP, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, to urge her to ensure that the Planning White Paper contains: * A commitment to sustainable development. Sustainable development must continue to guide development so that essential wildlife, habitats and Green Belt are protected, regeneration is encouraged and town centres remain vibrant. * Democratic accountability at all levels of the planning process. The right of local people to have a say in local plans must be safeguarded. In addition, any new legislation must ensure that people can have a proper say in major infrastructure projects such as roads or power stations.You can find out who your MP is by telephoning the House of Commons Public Information Office on 020 7219 4272, or by visiting www.locata.co.uk/commons All MPs can be reached in writing at House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA.Please send copies of your l...
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New Planning Disaster campaign launched
2007-02-11 15:38:00
Government called on to protect rights in the planning systemA new campaign was launched (24 January 2007) at www.planningdisaster.co.uk in response to concerns that proposed changes to the planning system will reduce public involvement in decisions about the development of their communities. The campaign, launched by a coalition of the UK`s leading environmental and social organisations is calling on members of the public to email the Chancellor, Gordon Brown MP, to highlight their concerns.The coalition of organisations including the Campa ign to Protect Rural England, The Civic Trust, Friends of the Earth, The Ramblers Association, RSPB, Transport 2000, The Wildlife Trusts and the Woodland Trust are calling on the Chancellor to protect people`s rights in the planning system. The Chancellor has recently presided over the publication of two major reports - The Barker Review, and the Eddington Study on Transport - which put forward a series of planning reform proposals including chan...
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Civic society in Yorkshire and humberside on garden grabbing
2007-02-11 15:33:00
YHACS believes that there are several negative effects of the practice of garden-grabbing that have been highlighted by its critics:(1) There is a very real strain on local infrastructure from the dramatic increase in housing density by large-scale high-density developments encroaching on otherwise lowdensity areas.Draft Version 0.2 9(2) Ecologically, garden-grabbing has a direct impact of reducing garden and green spaces in city and town centres (especially when accompanied by the concreting over of front gardens for parking spaces). As a result of such development, the delicate balance between the built and natural environments in our local areas is compromised.The end result may be a safeguarded green countryside, but it will also meanincreasingly brick and concrete cities and towns.(3) The impact of an inappropriately proportioned development scheme on the character of a neighbourhood can be detrimental to the sense of place associated with a particular locality. For example, in...
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Bognor civic Trust
2007-02-11 15:28:00
Bognor's town plan 'in meltdown'A district councillor has warned that the whole town planning system is 'in danger of meltdown'.The stark warning came at a meeting of Bognor Regis CiViC Society this week, on the emotive subject of so-called 'garden grabbing' and the mushrooming of numerous blocks of flats in the town.Why is there is no protest in Cardiff? Wales?
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Civic Trust England campaign agaisnt the Barker Review
2007-02-11 15:25:00
The Civic Trust has joined a coalition of the UK’s leading environmental and social organisations to campaign against recommendations in the recent Barker Review of Land Planning. The group believes that recommendations will have an adverse impact of the natural and built environment and will not allow local communities to have any involvement in planning decisions. The coalition is holding a Parliamentary reception to explain their views to MPs on 7th February, and have launched a website, where the public can email Gordon Brown to express their concerns. For further information about the Barker Review and the Civic Trust's views, please see our Campa ign s page.planningdisaster.co.ukhttp://www.civ ictrustwales.org/
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Six reasons against Garden Grabbing
2007-02-11 13:33:00
1. Garden s offer unique and diverse habitats As the BUGS Project (Biodiversity in Urban Gardens in Sheffield), conducted by Dr Ken Thompson and colleagues at Sheffield University, has shown, gardens provide not only very varied habitats but also may be the best breeding grounds for some species, given the minimal support for wildlife in conventional farmland.The more gardens are destroyed, the more we threaten our environmental heritage and its future. 2. Gardens offer rest and recuperation, an antidote to stress. Research has been undertaken which shows gardening is a better answer to stress than medical remedies for people suffering severe stress. But gardeners know just stepping out into a garden causes people to breathe differently and move at a different pace. Interestingly, there are more members of the All Party Parliamentary Horticulture & Gardening Group than any other Parliamentary Group and many MPs cite "enjoying getting out into my garden" as their personal antidote to ...
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Land Use (Gardens Protection etc) Bill
2007-02-11 13:16:00
What is happening in parliament?The Bill adds amendments to the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 in order to protect gardens and urban green space, and also confers housing-density-setting-powers on local authorities, emphasising residential development to be mixed with commercial development. The Bill also requires public bodies to publish regular reports on the “desirability and practicality” of providing residential accommodation on developed land which they own. Introduced by Caroline Spelman (Con, Meriden).What is happening about garden grabbing in the Welsh Assembly - nothing it seems! Progress House of CommonsFirst reading: December 13 2006 [HC Bill 19]Second reading: February 5 2007 (debate adjourned)Resumption of second reading: June 15 2007
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'Eden or Extinction - What Future for Urban Gardens?'
2007-02-11 13:15:00
Those lucky enough to have a garden attractive to developers may be surprised to learn that without you knowing, developers can apply for planning permission to demolish your home to make way for high-density housing.November 15th, 2006
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Garden Land Grab in Chester
2007-02-11 13:13:00
The City of Chest er has managed to avoid the national trend of garden grabbing - a form of land development that has ruined neighbourhoods in other areas across the country.Andy Farrall, a development chief in the Chester area said that the suspension brought in to control housing supply at a local level meant the garden grabbing trend has a limited impact on Chester.
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