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Porthcawl proposals mooted
2007-08-23 18:15:00 Proposals to turn Porthcawl in South Wales into a premier seaside resort have been unveiled by Bridgend County Borough Council.The plans, now on display, include the provision of 1,350 new dwellings in three locations, the regeneration of the harbour area (including provision of a moveable sill or gate), new promenades, improved facilities at Sandy Bay beach and new sea defences.Bridgend County Borough Council website More About: Prop
Cardiff reservoir housing scheme appeal refused
2007-08-23 18:12:00 Victory! The Welsh Assembly Government has refused an appeal by developer and landowner Western Power Distribution who has been fighting to develop sites near two Cardiff reservoirs for housing. A planning inspector recommended the appeal should be rejected on the grounds the proposals would harm wildlife interests, the subject of an earlier abortive High Court challenge by the developers.Welsh Assembly Government website More About: Housing , Refused , Chem , Appeal
Warning over adverse impact of development on children
2007-08-23 18:11:00 Poorly designed road and housing developments are invading children's space, according to the government's "green" advisory body, the Sustainable Develop ment Commission.The commission has published a report which claimed that large building projects, aircraft flight paths and busy roads are causing excessive noise levels, increased pollution and safety fears and preventing children from enjoying their local parks and neighbourhoods.Sustainable Development Commission website More About: Children , Warning
Planning minister Blears given £10,000 by property tycoon
2007-08-20 20:09:00 HAZEL BLEARS, the new communities minister responsible for planning decisions, has received a five-figure campaign donation from a multi-millionaire property developer. The cabinet minister registered the payment from a firm owned by Brian Scowcroft, one of Britain’s richest men, on the eve of the parliamentary recess.The developer has recently lodged a planning application for a controversial new hotel and conference centre in Cumbria which will be sent to Blears’s Whitehall office for approval.As minister at the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG), Blears has the ultimate say on contentious planning applications. Scowcroft’s donation of £10,000 was made via a small firm, Lorian Properties, rather than through one of his main companies.The businessman, who has a fortune of £180m and has pledged to sponsor a city academy in Carlisle, has large industrial estates in north Wales and the northwest of England.This week Carlisle city council will consider an ... More About: Property , Planning , Tycoon , Minister , Ears
Is there a noisy road through countryside near you?
2007-08-20 18:46:00 Transport for Quality of Life consultancy wants to talk to people about how traffic noise in a rural area has affected how they live their lives. By documenting their experiences they aim to show how noise from roads impacts those living in, working in and visiting the countryside. If you or your friends still have strong memories of how, for example, noise from a motorway built nearby in the 1980s has changed where you go to walk, ride, relax or how you can use your house or garden, please email Ian Taylor, Transport for Quality of Life, ian@transportforqualityoflife.com More About: Road
39 Gabalfa Road
2007-08-14 19:12:00 This also shows how applications keep coming back - never mind the confusing change of applicants!Anon writes in with a comment about 39 Gabalfa Road "Our house backs onto no. 39 Gabalfa Road, where developers have put in an application to build two dwellings on the existing garden and turn the edwardian terraced house into flats. we are shocked at how easily these edwardian houses can fall victim to profit motivated developers.We have little chance of our objections being listened to as an existing coach house was knocked down and the garden is now regarded as brownfield. "Week ending July 12thCARDIFF COUNTY COUNCIL PLANNING APPLICATIONS FOR WEEK ENDING 12th ...July07/01573/W Full Planning Permission Expected Decision Level: DelegatedReceived: 03/07/2007Ward: LLANDAFF NORTHCase Officer: Justin JonesApplicant: WOW Properties Ltd, 65A Cardiff Road, Llandaff, CardiffAgents: Stedman Architectural, 18 Turberville Place, Cardiff, , , CF11 9NXCONVERT EXISTING HOUSE INTO TWO FLATS WITH TWO ... More About: Alfa
List of possible contentious Planning Applcations 2nd August
2007-08-12 19:45:00 List of Planning Applications Week Ending 2nd August 2007(73k)WHITCHURCH/TONGWYNLAIS 07/01743/W Full Planning Permission Expected Decision Level: DelegatedReceived: 25/07/2007Ward: WHITCHURCH/TONGWYNLAISCase Officer: Peter KingsburyApplicant: D M 2000, c/o Agent, ,Agents: DTB Design, D Thomas, 286 North Road, Cardiff, , CF14 3BNProposal: ERECTION OF 3 DETACHED HOUSES At: 3 Westfield Road, Whitchurch/Tongwynlais, CardiffPLASNEWYDD 07/01799/C Full Planning Permission Expected Decision Level: Planning CommitteeReceived: 30/07/2007Ward: PLASNEWYDDCase Officer: Richard Cole Applicant: Cardiff County Council, County Hall, Atlantic Wharf, CARDIFFAgents: Cardiff County Council - Design & Construction Management, Richard Israel - Op. Manager, Terrapin BuDEMOLITION OF LIBRARY BUILDING AND EXTENSION/ALTERATIONS TO COMMUNITY HALLBUILDING TO ACCOMMODATE A NEW LIBRARY FACILITYProposal: At: Roath Community Hall, Ninian Road, Plasnewydd, CardiffPLASNEWYDD 07/01801/C Full Planning Permission Exp... More About: List , Ossi , Tent
Watch Dispatches about PPS and Planning Dirty Tricks
2007-08-08 11:24:00 Click on the bottom left arrow! See alsoones faith in planning process is sorely challenged More About: Watch , Planning , Tricks , Dirty , Dispatches
PROTESTERS AGAINST 'GARDEN-GRABBING' SCHEMES CLAIM VICTORY
2007-08-07 18:53:00 An action group protesting against three 'garden-grabbing' schemes in Allestree was celebrating its first victory tonight.City council planners turned down an application to build a house in a garden in Duffield Road, saying that it would be too close to neighbouring homes and would cause an increase in traffic and noise. Members of Allestree Preservation Group welcomed the decision but said they would continue to fight against the other two developments planned for green space in the suburb.We can win in Cardiff too! More About: Victory , Garden , Protesters , Este , Prot
Ones faith in the planning process is sorely challenged.
2007-08-05 12:11:00 This story seems to have vanished from the Daily mail website and also This is Money. But is still in Gulf Times!! Revealed Dirty tricks used to win planning permission for controversial development The lobbying company PPS is accused of using forgery, impersonation and even bugging to manipulate the planning process for some of London's most controversial developments. It is employed by most of Britain's leading housebuilders, including a division of Berkeley Homes, and many big retailers such as Sainsbury's. PPS has compiled secret dossiers on councillors which contain highly personal information and information obtained under false pretences. It has allegedly obtained clandestine tape-recordings and verbatim transcripts of councillors' discussions in private meetings. PPS is suspected of infiltrating local residents' groups which fight developers.Damning internal company documents leaked to the Mail's sister newspaper The Evening Standard and Channel 4's Dispatches program... More About: Faith , Planning , Allen , Process , Halle
Planning Disaster
2007-08-05 12:00:00 No voice, no choice Contained in the White Paper are proposals to: Streamline planning for major projectsLike nuclear power stations, airports, major roads and large incinerators Decide the need for projects in WestministerYour voice wil be hard to hear in a national debate Take decisions away from politiciansAn unelected Infrastructure Planning Commission will have the final say Stop you from having a sayBy removing your right to challenge projects at a public inquiry Without changes, these proposals are bad for the environment: major projects will lead to increased destruction of habitats, which are valuable for wildlife; landscapes and geological heritage; historic buildings, and sites of archaeological importance. The White Paper pays lip service to the idea of sustainable development – that is, economic and social development which respects environmental limits – but contains no proposals for making this a legal duty. Who is affected? Communities throughou... More About: Disaster , Aster
Garden Grabbing News from elsewhere
2007-08-04 12:27:00 'Garden -grabbing' plan for new flats Luton Today - 31 Jul 2007A Luton vicarage could be the latest site in the town to fall victim to garden-grabbing, which sees housing developers building new properties on sites that were previously gardens.Householders approached by 'garden grabbers' Lancashire Evening Post -Higher Walton, has written to several homeowners offering to buy their land to build on - a practice known as "garden grabbing". The Evening Post understands that if the properties in Moorhey Crescent are bought, plans would be submitted to build more ... More About: News , Where , Grab , Rabbi
Some of the possibly contentious planning applications weeek ending 26th JU
2007-08-01 17:46:00 PLANNING APPLICATIONS FOR WEEK ENDING 26th JULY 2007If you have any information about these planing applications and have evidence that they may be another case of Garden Grabbing - i.e. not just building on a truly Brownfield piece of land, please contact me. Does anyone have information on Stone House, Thornhill Road and its exact location? Does anyone remember the two old cottages on Thornhill Road Cardiff - Primrose cottage and Rose cottage? They were located near the garage on the corner of Heol Llanishen Fach. Are they still there? And is Stone House beside them?Rhiwbina07/01734/W Outline Planning Permission Expected Decision Level: DelegatedReceived: 25/07/2007 Ward: RHIWBINACase Officer: Martin MorrisApplicant: Mr P Brundell, c/o Agent, ,Agents: DTB Design, D Thomas, 286 North Road, Cardiff, , CF14 3BNProposal: ERECTION OF DETACHED HOUSEAt: The Stone House, Thornhill Road, Rhiwbina, CardiffCathays 07/01723/C Outline Planning Permission Expected Decision Level: DelegatedRece... More About: Applications , Ending , Ossi , Tent
Planners move to close window on US 'McMansions'
2007-07-31 20:06:00 Dan Glaister in Los Angeles Monday July 30, 2007 Guardian UnlimitedDoes this sound familar? One of the aspects of garden grabbing is the building o one or 2 massive new houses on a small plot. Same problem in USA but they are going to do something about it and we are not. I love this term 'McMans ion'!A small bungalow and knock it down and build a McMansion!..For many they are a blight on the American landscape. For others, they are an expression of freedom and success. Now legislators in cities across the US, alarmed at the spread of "McMansions", are trying to contain the size of American homes.Inspired by concerns that communities are disappearing and alarmed by the environmental costs, planners have drawn up measures to ensure new homes stay within a footprint that is proportionate to the plot size.......While McMansion is the most frequently used pejorative term, "plywood palazzo" is another................climate change disaster. If the country doesn't rein in the constructi... More About: Close , Move , Window , Planner
Scandal of Lodge demolition in August
2007-07-27 18:31:00 Before and AfterEven worse! I am told that the Lodge in Radyr is to be demolished so that flats can be built!Why can't this beautiful building be renovated instead?To see a picture of the replacement buildings click here More About: Scandal , August , Demolition , Canda
Garden Grabbing News
2007-07-27 11:32:00 'GARDEN GRABBERS' MOVE LOST 09:30 - 24 July 2007 A Bid by Derby Tories to get planning laws changed to make it harder for developers to build in back gardens has been thwarted...Garden space is disappearing, warn campaignersWhich?, UK - 10 Jul 2007The practice known as 'garden grabbing' happens where builders snap up large detached houses with big gardens, knock them down and then squeeze a small estate of new homes on to the same plot.Leave our gardens well aloneic Solihull.co.uk, UK - 26 Jul 2007"Local people are incensed about these garden grabbing schemes as they will ruin the character of the neighbourhood if allowed to go ahead," she said. More About: News , Grab , Rabbi , Bing
Two thirds of homes to be built on brown field sites!
2007-07-25 17:00:00 Tania Branigan, (Tues July 24, 2007) reports that two-thirds of the homes to be built will be on brownfield sites. Most people would define Brown field sites as ex-industrial or commercial property that is abandoned or underused and often environmentally contaminated. However, Yvette Cooper and the government include the gardens of houses and bungalows, which when built on as so-called brownfield sites completely changes the nature of residential areas, concreting them over leading to increased flash flooding, loss of inique habitats encouraging wildlife and biodiversity, for example birds, butterflies and bumblebees. This is having a devastating affect on many areas of our life, not least the environment, children’s health and education and everybody’s general well being. With building land at a premium in urban areas, cases of ‘garden grabbing’ are on the rise, with local planning authorities seemingly powerless or unwilling to stop it completely disregarding communities... More About: Sites , Homes , Field , Third
Cefn Coed Ave RESIDENTS have hit out at a woman’s plans to build a new ho
2007-07-22 15:35:00 Yet again a council officer decides that a building is not out of keeping with the area! Don't residents views count for more? They live there.Resident s’ battle ‘far from over’ Jul 20 2007 by Matthew Aplin, South Wales EchoRESIDENTS have lost their battle to stop a house being built on a corner plot of their street – but have pledged to fight on.As previously reported in the Echo, residents of Cefn Coed Avenue, Cyncoed, Cardiff, objected to the plans of a property owner to build a terraced property on a corner plot of land.At a planning committee meeting on Wednesday Councillors approved a recommendation for the development for the new house.Residents had protested that the property would exceed the street building line and that the open space and garden-village design of the estate would be compromised.However, a strategic planning officer said that the design of the new building was not out of keeping with the style of the estate and that there was no official building li... More About: Plans , Build , A Woman
More Garden Grabbing and next planning meeting
2007-07-09 16:16:00 Future meetings of the Plan ning Committee have been arranged as follows:18th July 2007 no papers yet15th August 200712th September 2007approx location from google07/01539/W Full Planning Permission Expected Decision Level: DelegatedReceived: 03/07/2007 Ward: RHIWBINACase Officer: Jacqueline HowardApplicant: Cardiff Period Development, c/o Agent, ,Agents: Lewis Webb Associates, 24 Mill Road, Llanishen, Cardiff, , CF14 0XBProposal: DETACHED HOUSE At: Part of land at, 20 Erw Wen, Rhiwbina, Cardiff07/01494/C Full Planning Permission Expected Decision Level: DelegatedReceived: 26/06/2007 Ward: PLASNEWYDDCase Officer: Chris EllisApplicant: Mr. D. Gibson, 84 Rhydypenau Road, Cyncoed, CARDIFFAgents: Tech Drawings, Mr P Coleman, 2 Cora Street, Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, CF63 4EPProposal: PROPOSED NEW TWO BEDROOM DETACHED DWELLINGAt: Garage rear of, 112 Keppoch Street, Plasnewydd, Cardiff07/01529/E Full Planning Permission Expected Decision Level: DelegatedReceived: 02/07/2007 Ward: RUMNEYCase... More About: Garden , Meeting , Grab
New Statutory Requirement for Access Statements
2007-07-06 19:37:00 WALES - ACCESS STATEMENTSIn Wales from 30 June 2007 it is a statutory requirement for Access Stat ements to accompany applications for planning permission and listed buildings consent (with some exclusions)...http://www.planningportal.g ov.uk/news/?1115315047666Wales - Access Statement s »Wales - Access StatementsIn Wales from 30 June 2007 it will be a statutory requirement for Access Statements to accompany applications for planning permission and listed buildings consent (with some exclusions).The legislation can be viewed at www.opsi.gov.ukThe relevant primary legislation is section 42 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 which is commenced by SI 2007/1369 C.58. A new Article 4D to the Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) Order 1995, and a new Regulation 3B to the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Regulations 1990 are made by amending legislation SI 2006/3390 W.310 & SI 2006/3316 W.30.Until guidance on Access Statements is finalised... More About: Tory , Temen
Misguided planning
2007-07-06 13:54:00 Garden Grabbing not just Cardiff, the same is happening in Bridgend!Letter to Western Mail Jul 5 2007SIR – The article on garden-grabbing planning approvals, published in the Western Mail on Tuesday, suggests that many areas in Wales are experiencing difficulties with decisions taken by over-enthusiastic and often misguided planning committees.The need to provide adequate stocks of social housing is indisputable but are we content with the apparent determination of planning authorities, such as Bridgend County Borough Council, to allow houses to be built on every conceivable plot of land, totally regardless of the deleterious affect on neighbouring properties?The approval of a recent application in Bridgend, in the face of strong objections from local residents and the town council, reveals that the council and its officers are prepared to ride roughshod over the interests of long-standing council taxpayers just in order to achieve their precious targets.EDWARD H JONES West Road, ... More About: Planning , Plan , Guid
We all have to voice our opposition
2007-07-06 13:46:00 I READ an item in the Echo relating to “garden grabbing” in Rhiwbina, Cardiff.This seems to be a virus affecting many of our residential communities. We are, in our neighbourhood, experiencing another variety of this virus.We do not have large gardens. What we have are Victorian terraced houses overlooking Cardiff Bay, in what was the docks end of town.Most of the small green spaces around were developed, against our wishes, years ago. Now developers have built blocks of modern, three-storey town houses, between some of the older houses. They tower above the adjacent gardens and could put the Berlin Wall to shame.Against public opinion the “inspector” at the National Assembly over-rode the refusal of the council.On a more personal level, an application has been placed to demolish the end house of our terrace, which consists of 14 houses, 10 on one side, four on the other. The plan is to build two modern houses, flat-roofed, with balconies and moving out onto the small side g... More About: Voice , VOIC , Posi , Position
Give Local Communities meaningful input into the planning and decision maki
2007-07-06 13:29:00 The Green Party today called on Hazel Blears to take her new proposals on local democracy further by enabling local communities to have a truly meaningful input into the planning and decision-making process.Communities Secretary Hazel Blears today announced that direct ballots would be held in local areas over "big choices" on local council spending, including choosing priorities between "play areas, youth facilities, traffic calming or more community wardens". Pilot schemes could be extended to allow the petitioning of councils to consider policy proposals from the public More About: Planning , Local , Decision , Give , Plan
SAVED Historical site and garden of Llanishen Fach Farmhouse
2007-06-28 11:19:00 Llanishen Fach Farm house in Heol Erwin saved -application has been REFUSED on grounds of- adverse effect on the setting of a listed building (UDP sec 2.51)- disturbance / loss of privacy to neighbouring occupiers (UDP sec 2.24)- loss of daylight to windows of Famhouse (UDP sec 2.20 and 2.24)Success due largely to the help of Duncan Hockridge who suceeded in researching and putting the above points to the council, Duncan said "all I did was point out to the Planners the information contained in the council's own Guidance Note For Applicants for Listed Building Consent (you can get it from the planning web site). The development clearly did not comply with the requirements. Any way power to the people at last!"Well said Duncan!Cllr Jayne Cowan said "Thanks Anne for letting me know. I am so pleased with this result. Everyone who contacted me was opposed to this application, and I am sure this decision will be met with much happiness by local residents. Several residents contacted m... More About: Garden , Site , Historical , Hist
Llanishen Fach Farm Garden under threat, read the history here.
2007-06-25 17:47:00 I have been sent this piece on the history of the farm.'Llanishen Fach Farm was purchased by Wyndham Lewis in 1854 (over 150 years ago) for £4,500, and has remained part of his estate ever since. The last of the tenant farmers was Ivor Llewellyn who died in 1947 but his widow Annie lived there at a peppercorn rent until she became too infirm and had to go into care in 1995. The Estate would not allow the sitting tenancy to transfer to her son Howard, and from then on it's been rented unfurnished at commercial rates. After the failed planning application in 1994 and the departure of Mrs Llewellyn, the property was thoroughly renovated and divided into two self-contained halves, which are rented separately.All the housing built on the Llanishen Fach farmland in the 1960s was originally sold on 99 year leaseholds from the Estate which, by then, had passed through marriage into the ownership of Mrs Murray Thriepland of the Scottish landowning family of that name, but most if not all ... More About: History , Garden , Read , Hist
23 Beulah road recommended for approval before people get to see the new pl
2007-06-16 11:36:00 Protest! People have been waiting to see the revised plans. But the report has already been printed. Objections have not been adequately dealt with. The proposed development is unacceptable and will significantly alter the surrounding streetscene, it certainly doesn't add to the street scene in any way. The size of the footprint is 'similar' says the report - however that means it is bigger and in a different position! It breaks up the visual line that is present at the moment.The applicant has been allowed more say in the report than local residents. See 7.3Persons claiming to be related to the applicant also canvassed the neighbourhood for support claiming that this was to be the applicants family home which may or may not be true and pleading for objections to be withdrawn but the developer may sell as soon as the building is completed.There is no mention of the demonstration of residents at the site meeting and the objections received in writing to members of the planning com... More About: Road , Comm , Al B , Fore
23 Beulah Road Plans - from bungalow to Chalet??
2007-06-14 15:25:00 Doesn't really fit in, does it?? A sort of chalet style to replace this? More About: Plans , Road , Plan , Hale , Beulah
One day all this will be multi-occupancy units BBC News
2007-06-13 20:07:00 Garden Grabbing in the news!!One day all this will be multi-occupancy unitsFrom BBC News , UK - One of the results is "garden grabbing". Developers buy a house with a generous garden, apply for planning permission to demolish the house and build either flats, or even a mini-estate in its place.Notice they used one of our pictures of Pantmawr Road, Rhiwbina!NOT IN OUR BACK YARDS? Dorset Echo, By Juliette AstrupAN EPIDEMIC of new homes being built in gardens has lead to calls for planners to have more power to stop "garden grabbing". Statistics obtained by Bournemouth West MP Sir John Butterfill reveal 46 per cent of new homes in Dorset are ...No reply or comment yet from my MP Julie Morgan...... More About: Multi , Units , Unit
Llanishen Fach Farm House Garden, Heol Erwin, to be Annihilated
More articles from this author:2007-06-01 11:44:00 I received this email today about yet another disgraceful garden grabbing development on Heol Erwin."Your campaign on back-garden development has struck a chord Anne, we have a case in my own street now where there's a planning application to plant a semi in the back garden of the historic grade-3 listed Llanishen Fach Farm House . I've lodged an objection and encouraged neighbours to do likewise, and will let you know the outcome."I have copies of the plans if anyone wants a copy. Just email me:-annegre@aol.comAs you can see the application is for 'erection of a semi detached pair of houses comprising two three bedroom dwellings''Trees will be felled' and there will be 4 parking places two per dwelling.Llanishen Fach Farmhouse,Heol Erwin, CardiffDon't forget to do the poll further down the page on the left! More About: Garden , Late , Lani 1, 2, 3 |
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