tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53301832416584201262024-03-19T00:58:48.010-07:00Penarth Matters Campaign For Civic Pride: Preserving Penarths conservation areas with special architectural/historic interest: Campaigning to save Penarths tree canopy and biodiversoity also highlight need to replace our Street Trees. We say NO to the Vales LDP overdevlopment in Penarth which will wipe out our tree canopy, our green belt causing major congestion & pressure on our services. #takeourtownback womensvoicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17428260490275891865noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330183241658420126.post-13795480647869253092019-08-18T09:10:00.002-07:002019-08-24T09:32:34.675-07:00Spy Cameras at Penarth Town Centre Bus Stop Shelters<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;">Two planning applications have been submitted by bus-stop company <i>Clear Channel Ltd</i> to install </span>a two-sided digital advertising
panel with integrated <span style="background: white;">HD TV camera </span>into
the two main bus shelters in the centre of Penarth.<span style="background: white;"> </span>It’s<i> </i>an <b><a href="file:///C:/Users/User.User-PC/Downloads/DS75%20Bus%20Shelter%20Unit%20Technical%20Specification%20(Dual%20and%20Single).pdf"><span style="color: windowtext; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Audience Analytics Camera</span></a></b><span style="background: white;"> </span>above the LCD display, <span style="background: white;">aimed at </span><i>“maximum viewer detection”</i>, full
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This records facial images and analyses the age and gender of the
viewers of the ad-panel together with viewing time. They will sell this data to
advertisers. They could later use facial recognition analysis on saved images to
identify people personally, and sell on this data.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This start to a surveillance-society is being currently challenged in
the Cardiff High Court as a violation of privacy. CCTV in shops is for security
and not sold on. CCTV on-street is
restricted to police use; their upgrading it to give them a database of faces is
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;">Amazingly, Vale
Council officers are expecting to decide on this technology on public bus-stops
for private purposes. Unlike electoral
data whose re-use is controlled and paid-for, they give away public control on
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>There are no benefits for bus passengers</b> – identifying problems like
buses unable to reach the kerb and leaky shelters. No modernised shelter with
sufficient capacity, real-time information and proper seating <span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">as needed especially by elderly and disabled
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">The Town Council have made no comments, though politicians and bus users
have concerns about <b>filming without consent</b>
in public spaces by private businesses.</span> The Commons S&T committee says cease
trials of facial recognition technology until a legal framework is established. See - <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/privacy"><span style="color: windowtext;">https://www.theguardian.com/world/privacy</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Windsor Terrace, Penarth </b><a href="http://vogonline.planning-register.co.uk/PlaRecord.aspx?AppNo=2019/00793/ADV"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Planning
application 2019/00793/ADV</span></a><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Display of a double sided digital advertising
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</span></a><b><a href="http://vogonline.planning-register.co.uk/PlaRecord.aspx?AppNo=2019/00792/ADV"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">2. Windsor
Road Penarth. </span></a>Planning Application</b> <b><a href="http://vogonline.planning-register.co.uk/PlaRecord.aspx?AppNo=2019/00792/ADV"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">2019/00792/ADV</span></a><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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from Clear Channel UK Ltd, Unit 4, Garonor
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<b><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.valeofglamorgan.gov.uk/en/our_council/Council-Structure/councillors/Councillors.aspx"><span style="color: windowtext;">Contact the Council leader and your local
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Leader: <b>Neil Moore</b> <span class="syscontact-icons-item">01446 721525
</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="syscontact-icons-item">07720 063533</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="syscontact-icons-item"><a href="mailto:NMoore@valeofglamorgan.gov.uk" title="Email Cllr Neil Moore"><span style="color: #0056b3;">NMoore@valeofglamorgan.gov.uk</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">Neil
C Thomas</span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;"> <span class="syscontact-icons-item"><span id="S3_TelephonePlaceholder" style="box-sizing: border-box; min-height: 100%;">07701
372554</span></span> <a href="mailto:ncthomas@valeofglamorgan.gov.uk" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: windowtext;">ncthomas@valeofglamorgan.gov.uk</span></a> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><b>Peter King</b> <span class="syscontact-icons-item"><span id="S3_TelephonePlaceholder" style="box-sizing: border-box; min-height: 100%;">07720 063542</span></span> <a href="mailto:pking@valeofglamorgan.gov.uk" style="box-sizing: border-box;" title="email address"><span style="color: windowtext;">pking@valeofglamorgan.gov.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Burnett</span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;"> <span style="background: white;"> </span><span class="syscontact-icons-item"><span id="S3_TelephonePlaceholder" style="box-sizing: border-box; min-height: 100%;">07701 372561</span></span> <a href="mailto:lburnett@valeofglamorgan.gov.uk" style="box-sizing: border-box;" title="e-mail address"><span style="color: windowtext;">lburnett@valeofglamorgan.gov.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: windowtext;">Sivaruby (Ruba) Sivagnanam</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal;"> <span style="background-color: initial;">07701
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="mailto:ssivagnanam@valeofglamorgan.gov.uk" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: windowtext;">ssivagnanam@valeofglamorgan.gov.uk</span></a><br />
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womensvoicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17428260490275891865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330183241658420126.post-79924072885500426492019-01-30T09:07:00.000-08:002019-01-30T09:12:45.839-08:00Save Penarth Belle Vue Park PAVILLION from demolition <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A reminder of the History of Belle Vue Park Penarth. Save our pavillion from the Vale Council who want to demolish it. Lets restore it instead the illustration is a plan for restoration in 2016. However the council want to build some sort of new building that would be commercially viable?! Consultation at St Augustine’s Parish Hall, between 4:00pm – 6:00pm on Thursday 31 January. Officers will be there to discuss any ideas you may have on the future use of the building. <span style="color: #1b95e0;">http://www.penarthparks.org.uk/bellevue/info/index.shtml</span></div>
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womensvoicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17428260490275891865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330183241658420126.post-62700176369416664962018-03-03T03:54:00.002-08:002018-03-03T03:59:26.960-08:00Penarth Civic Society Will NOT protect our conservation areas<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Audrey Poole President of the CIVIC SOCIETY response to Northcliffe in Penarth Conservation area. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>architecture, like art, is very much a personal preference. </b>Perhaps its more the close relationship with Chris Loyn the brutalist architect who was the previous president . </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Audrey Poole with Chris Wyatt who does the civic society face-book page and posts what he likes and excludes members like Anne Greagsby from posting. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Chair of the civic society is James Long who doesn't live in Penarth and bullies even members of the committee. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The only issues I could question over this application would be the stability of the actual site and the problem of increased traffic which would be a factor in any new development and you don't mention those. As far as the building is concerned, architecture, like art, is very much a personal preference and I would always prefer genuine creativity in design to pastiche. A town must be allowed to evolve and we can't keep Penarth in a time warp. If you are looking at impact on the environment the modern high apartment blocks that dominate the skyline in key areas of the town, which seemed to appear almost overnight , really do have a negative impact and should have been opposed.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">FoE points out that the Council data shows the limiting NO2 "objective" was again exceeded at the Marine Scene monitoring point (44.4 in 2016, compared with the 40 legal limit). This position is at shops which people pass and where shop-workers stay for extended periods, opposite approved new housing development, and on essential "active travel" routes for walking and cycling between Cogan and Penarth Haven/Pont y Werin bridge. This stretch of road should, FoE believe, be included in the AQMA and action taken to manage the polluting traffic queues.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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womensvoicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17428260490275891865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330183241658420126.post-66178004249077898802017-09-05T08:48:00.003-07:002017-09-05T08:48:56.945-07:00Northcliffe officer reports not accurate and misleading <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I wish to oppose this development and draw attention to bias and misleading inaccurate statements in the report to the planning committee. Inaccurate and misleading reports should be challenged and this application rejected again or at least the reports of council officers should be rewritten in an objective honest manner. T</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">he developers'</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> reports are clearly biased (see that on accessibility below),</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> making</span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> objective reports</b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> by the officers vital. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1. The CADW report states "We do not provide an assessment of the likely impact of the development of the development on listed buildings or conservation areas, as these are matters for the local authority.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></span>The report actually states "Cadw were consulted and having carefully considered the information provided with the planning application, confirm that the advice given in the pre-application response to LRM Planning on 13 April 2017 remains unchanged. The proposed development is located within the vicinity, c300m to the south, of the scheduled monument known as Penarth Churchyard Cross (Now in St Augustine’s Church) (GM227); as the name suggests located within the church itself. There are no other designated historic assets in the vicinity and so no historic assets will be affected." This statement in the report suggests that CADW approves the application . The CADW report is not on the Planning website <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://vogonline.planning-register.co.uk/PlaRecord.aspx?AppNo%3D2017/00541/FUL&source=gmail&ust=1504711879843000&usg=AFQjCNEGOQPFod69vuxaW64vr5FCDafh0Q" href="http://vogonline.planning-register.co.uk/PlaRecord.aspx?AppNo=2017/00541/FUL" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://vogonline.planning-reg<wbr></wbr>ister.co.uk/PlaRecord.aspx?App<wbr></wbr>No=2017/00541/FUL</a></div>
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2. The comments from the 'Councils Housing strategy team' are misleading. The number of units of <b>affordable housing should be 40% = 12 </b>which may or may not include 2 units of actual social housing and there is no explanation why onsite contributions are 'usually favoured.' or any statement of the amount. 'Contributions' are a d<b style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.79px;">evelopers massive get out clause </b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.79px;">permitting them to carry out financial viability assessments for their proposed developments, which often conclude that meeting the affordable housing targets set by local authorities would reduce their profits to a point that the scheme would be worth their while. However those assessments are kept confidential, with even Councillors unable to see them. In order to make sure schemes goes ahead, the local authorities typically reduce their targets or accept payment from the developer in lieu of the affordable homes. That money is supposed to be invested into social and community projects, or the council’s own affordable housing schemes. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.79px;">The </span> 'Councils Housing strategy team' give no amount, however a report to the Penarth town council put the offer at a mere £300,000. Penarth Cllr Luxton <span style="color: #333333; font-family: abril-text-1, abril-text-2, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">said that</span><em style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: abril-text-1, abril-text-2, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “no real evidence” </em><span style="color: #333333; font-family: abril-text-1, abril-text-2, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">had been provided regarding the issue of the ground and footings which was one of the reasons which the developers had given for reducing what would ordinarily be a Section 106 payment of </span><strong style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: abril-text-1, abril-text-2, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">£1,100,000 - </strong><strong style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: abril-text-1, abril-text-2, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">£679,000</strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: abril-text-1, abril-text-2, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"> should be the contribution towards social housing . On top of that should be </span><strong style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: abril-text-1, abril-text-2, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">£209,000</strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: abril-text-1, abril-text-2, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"> for education, </span><strong style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: abril-text-1, abril-text-2, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">£29,000</strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: abril-text-1, abril-text-2, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"> for community facilities, </span><strong style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: abril-text-1, abril-text-2, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">£68,000</strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: abril-text-1, abril-text-2, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"> for open spaces, plus another </span><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: abril-text-1, abril-text-2, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1% for art.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><i>"The Council’s Housing Strategy team were consulted and have advised that there is substantial need for housing in the Penarth area. One bedroom Two bedroom Three bedroom need Four bedroom need Penarth 261 175 68 16 There is a need more affordable housing in Penarth, and an onsite contribution is usually favoured. However on this site we would prefer to take the full off site contribution if approved by Members. The reasons for this are that it would be very difficult for a social housing landlord to manage two units within a large block of market properties and also the service charges could over time with unrestricted increases make the units unaffordable even if they were not at the point of purchase"</i></span></div>
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3. Highways response is misleading and inaccurate on 'sustainability' They state that the councils parking standards allow for a relaxation of the site if the location has good access to local services and other modes of transport but this site has NOT good access to local services and other modes of transport and with extremely steep routes to services. </div>
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This evaluation has been made by Vale planners contacted the developers, who submitted a “score-sheet”. This claims that there are public facilities “<em style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">within 200 metres walking distance of the site (>two)”</em> but FoE points out that there are none. Headlands School is <strong style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">250</strong> metres away and that is not a public facility. The Clive Pub and Paget Road pocket park are both <strong style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">300</strong> metres walking distance away. The developers say Windsor Terrace bus stop is<em style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“<strong style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">750</strong> metres walking distance” </em>away from Northcliff<em style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> – </em> yet tracing the route on Google maps gives a distance of <strong style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">850m – </strong> which is above what is <strong style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">800m</strong> maximum scoring distance. The developers’ claim for exemption from parking standards on grounds of ‘sustainability’ is wrong: their allocation of <strong style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">42</strong> parking spaces is over <strong style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">21</strong> below the <em style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“one-parking-space-per bedroom”</em> standard (plus <strong style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1</strong> casual visitor-space per <strong style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">5</strong> units. The Highways statement "scores well on sustainability points" is wrong (copied/pasted from the January officers report which was challenged). The only evidence provided is the developers score-sheet shown as above to be false. How is it that the officers have brought the report to Committee without making their own check on the sustainability claims? Let us see their own list of facilities and their own scoring as we asked in our objection. </div>
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Proper enforcement of the Council's parking standards (as was done for the adjacent development in Mariner Heights) require 72 parking places. These proposals are short by 30 parking spaces<i>. </i> This shows the developer has tried to cram over-many apartments onto the site. The failure to provide adequate parking space - and the overflow implied onto neighbouring roads - is a further reason for rejecting the application. </div>
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4. Stunned by the 'conservation' officers report. </div>
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He acknowledges a presumption in favour of preservation of a listed buildings settings then proceeds to ignore that advice, without any reason of "public interest" for ignoring that presumption. He fails to refer to the photomontages showing trees above the Custom House replaced by apartment blocks. He is misled by the developers assurances and perhaps the developers own report on heritage matters, which wrongly prefer English Heritage guidance than the new Welsh Guidance in force since 31 May 2017. He also ignores the contrary view of the Penarth Town Council. I would ask that the committee question the accuracy and dimensions in any photo-montages. Look at what the c<span style="line-height: 20.79px;">ontroversial architect Chris Loyn has to say re the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://loyn.co.uk/work/northcliff&source=gmail&ust=1504711879843000&usg=AFQjCNFb7PUfAOjPOLWPiGy4wph3ZtaRBQ" href="http://loyn.co.uk/work/northcliff" style="color: #771100; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Northcliffe </a><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://loyn.co.uk/work/northcliff&source=gmail&ust=1504711879843000&usg=AFQjCNFb7PUfAOjPOLWPiGy4wph3ZtaRBQ" href="http://loyn.co.uk/work/northcliff" style="color: #771100; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">development</a> <wbr></wbr>for 30 flats/</span><span style="color: #525252; font-family: 'roboto condensed', 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4;">apartments in his own words. The priority is for extensive views ....</span></div>
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The Council
planning report (5 Jan 2017 committee) shows officers willing to reduce parking
spaces: <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>“The
Council’s Parking Standards SPG require one space per bedroom, and this equates
to two spaces for each of the 23 two bedroom flats and 3 spaces for the 7
larger units. Six spaces are required by the standards for visitor parking,
based on a requirement of 1 space per 5 units. However, the SPG allows for a
relaxation if the site is located sustainably, with good access to local
services and other modes of transport. The <u>site scores well on
sustainability points</u> due to its close proximity to bus stops, a public
house, schools, a restaurant, public open space, community hall and a church.
Consequently, the parking requirements are reduced in accordance with the SPG
to 1 space for the 2 bedroom units and 2 spaces for the three bed units. The
development makes provision for the necessary visitor parking and each of the
30 units would be served by a single parking space. This equates to a shortfall
of 7, when compared against the Council’s Parking Standards”</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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The Planning officer calculated 37 parking
spaces – at one space per two-bed flat, 2 per 3-bed flat. The new scheme has 24 two-bed and 6 larger;
including visitor spaces (1 per 5 flats) the requirement is now said to be 42 (<i><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">Highway Authority
Observation Sheet</span></i><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">, 23 June 2017)</span>. In
comparison, the original 1984 approval for 30 units (84/0206) required 55
parking spaces; that was recognised as inadequate in the adjacent Mariner
Heights decision (~2005) when 1 space per bedroom plus visitor spaces at 1 per
5 units was prescribed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The <i>Parking Standards SPG </i>says they follow the </span>CSS Parking
Standards 2008, but they <span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">categorised the whole north Penarth area and
Penarth Haven as</span>: </div>
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<i><u>Zone
3</u> - Urban - Very much part of a substantial built up area with a number of
basic local facilities within 400m walking distance</i>. (400m from the Clock reaches the top of
Albert Rd).</div>
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Objective people would look at
the dearth of “<i>basic local facilities</i>
within 400m, and categorise Northcliffe and Penarth Haven as </div>
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<u>Zone 4</u> - <i>Suburban or Near Urban - This zone comprised the outer edges of the
largest towns; suburban locations in towns.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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The CSS Parking Standards 2008
document is restricted to CSS members, but can be found on the internet. Its Appendix 5 has a prescription for
allocating “sustainability points”, which must total 7 or more for a
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<i>Local
facilities</i> (a foodstore, PO, health facility, school etc.): access to two
of these within a 400m walking distance scores 2points, access to more than two
– 4 points. For two within 400-800m
walking distance, the score is 1 point, or for more than two - 2 points. </div>
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<i>Access
to a bus stop or railway station</i>: 300m – 3 points; 400m – 2 points, 800m
1-point.</div>
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<i>Frequency
of public transport</i>: if does not operate consistently between 7am and 7pm,
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The planning officer states “<i><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">close proximity to bus stops, a public house, schools, a restaurant,
public open space, community hall and a church”</span></i><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">. Let’s measure distances using the google-map
facility, though real distances are further than the map projection, because of
the strongly sloping ground.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">►</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span>Bus Stops – about
100m, on Paget Place <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">►</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span>A public house
- The Clive in John St is about 300m<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">►</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span>Schools – the officer
apparently included Headlands special school (250m), which is not available to
the local public; Albert Rd primary
school is 450m.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">►</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span>A restaurant – the
Custom House is close as the crow flies, but the walking route round by road is
450m; the Pilot on Queens Road is 500m away.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">►</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span>Public open space
– the Paget Road play area and pocket park is 300m away<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">►</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span>Community Hall –
St Pauls is closed; Belle Vue Park hall is hardly used except by the Bowling
club and for special events; it is 580m away<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">►</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span>Church – St
Augustines is 480m by the most direct route (plus some increase for the steep
slopes)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Sustainability Score </b><i>Within 400m</i><b> – </b>a Pub and Play area - scores 2 points. The officer wrongly included
Headlands school and/or the Custom House restaurant to score 4 points. </div>
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<i>Within 800m</i>, there is a
school, GP surgery (unmentioned by the Planner), restaurants etc., but these
still score only the two points.</div>
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Rail stations are too far away
(1000m), regular buses near the roundabout are 850m away, but anyway score just
1 point – the Paget Place bus-stop scores just 2 points, because of limited
hours (first bus to Cardiff workplaces is 9.25am) and no Sunday service. </div>
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<b>Total Sustainability
Score</b> - <b><i>4 points</i></b>: does not
qualify for any reduced parking spaces.
Even if the Officer included Headlands school and the Custom House
restaurant within the 400m facilities, the score is only 6 points. The Officer might have wrongly taken the bus
service to meet the 7am to 7pm standard (to gross 7 points), though objectors
wrote in on the point.</div>
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<b>Walkability</b> the steepness of hills needs to be taken into account
(above assessment assumes it’s flat, when 400m is a brisk five minute
walk). The standard for high
accessibility to the range of services is 10 minutes walk. The
850m walk to the Town Centre bus-stops, foodstores is </div>
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over 10 minutes for fit adults, due to the hill (eg. via St Augustines Cres) <b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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very steep hill is challenging, even impossible for many elderly people or
parents with laden buggies; routes avoiding the steep hills via Paget Road are
much longer to the town.<b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://vogonline.planning-register.co.uk/PlaRecord.aspx?AppNo=2015/01449/FUL" style="color: #336699; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">2015/01449/FUL</a> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Northcliffe Lodge, Northcliffe Drive, Penarth</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Demolition of existing dwelling and outbuilding, erection of 30 apartments, new access and alterations to adjacent parking area, provision of a footpath link, replacement tree planting and landscaping and associated worksCeltic Developments (Penarth) Ltd. <b>Refused 06/01/2017 00:00:00 </b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f6f9; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 17.024px;"><b style="color: black;">DECISION TO REFUSE </b>The proposed development is considered to be contrary to the aims of Policies HOUS2 - Additional Residential development, HOUS8 – Residential Development Criteria and ENV27 - Design of New Developments, of the Vale of Glamorgan Adopted Unitary Development Plan 1996-2011, and the advice contained within Planning Policy Wales and Technical Advice Note 12 (Design) for the following reason<span style="color: red;">: It is considered that the proposed buildings are of an excessive size, massing and form and fail to have regard to the context of the site, would appear as over scaled and incongruous within the streetscene and within its coastal headland context, and would fail to either preserve or enhance the character of the nearby Conservation Area or Listed Buildings.</span> The development would therefore be contrary to the Town and Country Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>But its back - VoG Sept planning meeting. Why? disgrace this is to be discussed again. There has been no significant changes ......ignoring the wishes of Penarth Town Council </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Controversial architect Chris Loyn <a href="http://loyn.co.uk/work/northcliff">Northcliffe </a></span><a href="http://loyn.co.uk/work/northcliff">development</a><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> for 30 flats/</span></span><span style="color: #525252; font-family: "roboto condensed" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.4;">apartments in his own words. "</span><span style="color: #525252; font-family: "roboto condensed" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.4;">Organised from a pragmatic response to the challenging site topography and an unequivocal ambition from the outset for </span><b style="color: #525252; font-family: 'Roboto Condensed', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.4;">all principal living spaces to have an extensive view out over Cardiff Bay,</b><span style="color: #525252; font-family: "roboto condensed" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.4;"> the <b>three distinct linear apartment blocks </b>step down the cliffside, allowing vistas over the lower rooftops and framing landscaped streets or mews spaces in between." </span><span style="font-family: "roboto condensed" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.4;">Just above the listed custom house. </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listed_buildings_in_Penarth" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Marine Building (Grade II) and Custom House (Grade II)</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> 3 ugly blocks of flats will replace the wooded scene behind these buildings. The gateway to Penarth altered forever. </span></i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The 'conservation' officer considers 3 blocks <br />of these monstrosities will not alter the setting<br /> or view above the listed Custom House </span></td></tr>
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<i style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Marine Building (Grade II) and Custom House (Grade II)</i><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The immediate setting of these listed buildings is the former tidal estuary that led to the Penarth and Cardiff Docks. Since the construction of the Cardiff Bay Barrage this immediate setting has been altered drastically, however, the quintessential maritime character of the area remains. Behind the buildings the cliff face forms the back drop to the buildings with development above. In longer range views across Cardiff Bay the scale of the cliffs is such that this aspect of the setting of the listed building is considered negligible -??!! Seems he is ignoring Planning policy Wales</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"> </span>Technical Advice Note 24:
The Historic Environment
May 2017. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje-XsgWX9HQJ09nvOKCL9zDjYRT0xC6yGkcQX5354GcwmXwuW8gTrsV9z14lDsMWQ2CtFg3sRBF04cIOf1VFDZnnbjJmR9SeO2zN_rGGEq5vWQ5qNvFq6-ss7ltgV-8HURU92nbdJNJ9m2/s1600/NORTHCLIFFEPicture2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="674" data-original-width="1200" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje-XsgWX9HQJ09nvOKCL9zDjYRT0xC6yGkcQX5354GcwmXwuW8gTrsV9z14lDsMWQ2CtFg3sRBF04cIOf1VFDZnnbjJmR9SeO2zN_rGGEq5vWQ5qNvFq6-ss7ltgV-8HURU92nbdJNJ9m2/s320/NORTHCLIFFEPicture2.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The developers are relying on this outrageous statement by the solitary so called conservation officer of VoG. They commissioned their own report May 2017 by consultants </span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Heritage Impact
Assessment
Prepared by:
The Environmental
Dimension
Partnership Ltd
(EDP)
On behalf of:
Celtic Developments
Penarth Ltd
May 2017</i> relying on English Heritage guidelines completely ignoring Planning Policy Wales new 2017 guidelines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Where is the justiofication for the density/no of units</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why NO winter and summer studies to assess the wooded backdrop to the Custom House</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thankfully Penarth <a href="https://penarthnews.wordpress.com/2017/07/14/northcliff-lodge-apartment-development-is-rejected-again-by-penarth-council/">Town council oppose this yet again.</a> There will be NO affordable housing provided although there should be 40%. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Instead the VoG officers did a deal for £300k Lab Cllr Luxton says the going rate is much more £1.1 million plus 1% (public art). Vale officers have apparently agreed only £300k for this second application, not even scaled up for inflation, but rejigged it from the whole £300k going to ‘community facilities’ to most going to social housing (£270k instead of £670k Luxton says, but the real requirement for 40% means 12 housing units – £140k each makes £1.7million).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Why?? The officers’ £300k is based on a secret “viability report” – they normally accept the developers’ viability report without independent scrutiny. It doubtless includes notional construction costs and contingency for the difficult cliff-side site, which are essentially unknown but have been maximised. The officers do not propose a claw-back arrangement in case the secret assumptions turn out to give the developers huge profits.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What the Council should do is say the development scheme is wholly “unviable”, being unable to provide the necessary S106 funds and failing include the 40% social housing needed for developments in Penarth (under the newly adopted LDP). Good rounds for rejection, on top of ecology, landscape, heritage, land instability and all the other reasons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Our Penarth Heritage is as risk</b>. NOTE the Penarth Civic society have made no comment as they are cosy with the architect Chris Loyn having had him as president of the society and fail yet again to object to his inappropriate brutalist designs for Penarth. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: , , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><b><a href="http://www.penarthtimes.co.uk/news/14996107.Ambitious_Northcliffe_flats_plan_is_rejected_by_Vale_planning_committee/?ref=twtrec">Ambitious Northcliffe flats plan is rejected by Vale planning committee </a></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: , , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><a href="https://penarthnews.wordpress.com/2017/04/07/new-planning-battle-looms-as-controversial-northcliff-lodge-scheme-re-emerges">NEW PLANNING-BATTLE LOOMS</a> AS CONTROVERSIAL NORTHCLIFF LODGE SCHEME RE-EMERGES </span></span></div>
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womensvoicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17428260490275891865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330183241658420126.post-17263907265275893942017-08-07T05:40:00.001-07:002017-08-07T05:40:11.356-07:00Building more and more houses & flats is not the answer! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Build, build, build is not the answer to the housing crisis.....</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
Local people most in need of a home can't afford the market price of housing,
no matter how many houses are built. Lack of mortgage finance availability for
first-time buyers and the weakness of this group’s income growth has been
mainly responsible for the slump in the home ownership rate. Building new
homes doesn't necessarily mean homes for those who need them. Given the huge
inequalities in wealth, the market is more likely to furnish more second homes
for some UK residents, and investment opportunities for wealthy foreigners
looking for a safe haven for their money, than to provide homes for people in
need. To make housing more affordable, new housing developments would have to
reduce house prices in their local area. But a recent study by the LSE which
looked at eight large new developments built in the last five years, found that
prices in the local area did not fall after completion, and in some cases they
went up.* <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">And for
those who can afford to buy the exemption from capital gains tax for main
residences, inheritance tax breaks, a grossly unfair and regressive banding of
council tax: all create powerful incentives to pour your money into a bigger
house than you need, and then hold onto it. These incentives also drive up
prices, by ensuring that all the gain accrues to the owner. The results include
unaffordability, unsustainable levels of debt and speculative bubbles. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Before anyone
points out developers have to provide a % of affordable homes, at least 50% of
housing schemes failed to meet local affordable housing targets in Bristol,
Bradford, Cardiff, Manchester and Sheffield** <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b>Developers
have a massive get out clause </b>permitting them to carry out financial viability
assessments for their proposed developments, which often conclude that meeting
the affordable housing targets set by local authorities would reduce their
profits to a point that the scheme would be worth their while. However those
assessments are kept confidential, with even Councillors unable to see them. In
order to make sure schemes goes ahead, the local authorities typically reduce
their targets or accept payment from the developer in lieu of the affordable
homes. That money is supposed to be invested into social and community
projects, or the council’s own affordable housing schemes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Councils are
tempted into pressing for more housing as <b>section 106 </b>has become a primary
means of funding essential public services, public parks, health centres to
highways, schools to play areas. The bigger the scheme, the fatter the bounty,
leading to a situation not far from legalised bribery – or extortion, depending
on which side of the bargain you are on. Vastly inflated density and a few
extra storeys on a tower can be politically justified as being in the public
interest, if it means a handful of trees will be planted on the street. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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womensvoicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17428260490275891865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330183241658420126.post-31383177848793782282017-07-25T06:01:00.000-07:002017-07-25T06:02:32.379-07:00Cardiff Bus 'Station' farce - A masterclass in incompetence <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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From <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Cardiff-and-the-Vale-Bus-Users-265942543576035/">Cardiff and the Vale Bus Users</a></div>
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The squandering of public resources on Cardiff’s central bus station site is now becoming clear. We’re left with still higher costs for the cramped and inadequate replacement, according to the business analysis in Neil Hanratty’s Director’s report to Cabinet this week (<a href="http://cardiff.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s17003/CAB_Bus%20Interchange_FINAL.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://cardiff.moderngov.co.uk/…/CAB_Bus%20Interchange_FINA…</a>).</div>
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Russell Goodway and the new regime say they will deliver “a new transport interchange which will be at the heart of the Cardiff Metro”. But their<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"> plan is driven by car-parking for the BBC (217 spaces), on top of the 83-space operational car-park under the BBC-building.</span></div>
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Their car-park access on Saunders Road prevents its use as a bus station access (except on event-days). It forces buses to rely on the congested access from Wood St; it prevents a Metro-tram system accessing a proper ‘interchange’ via Saunders Road free of traffic congestion.<br />
The “interchange” (no longer “world class”) has no integration with future metro-trams, no integration with the 50% of bus services that will use stops on St Mary’s Street, Custom House St, etc. and no integration with the rail station except perhaps a covered walkway.<br />
Why persist with massive BBC car-parking atop the bus station? They decided not to put it underground, because of time and cost in moving the main water pipe. Now they say we have to meet very high costs of building it above, because supporting columns in the bus movement area are ruled out. Also, roofing over the bus station causes high pollution levels, estimated at several times the legal NO2 limit, which has forced a restriction on bus numbers.</div>
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No apologies from the Director for the concept, nor any indication of the costs of failing to deliver the BBC’s 217 parking spaces on time. What’s the cost of getting out of the lease and scrapping this stupid commuter car-parking in Central Square? Replacements if needed can go south of Central Station.</div>
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Why propose to make a bad scheme viable by switching to student accommodation towers? The area was supposed to be an Enterprise Zone with special incentives for financial and business services.<a href="https://businesswales.gov.wales/enterprisezones/zones/central-cardiff/about-central-cardiff-enterprise-zone" rel="nofollow" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://businesswales.gov.wales/…/about-central-cardiff-ent…</a>. So quickly has that prospectus turned sour ! No subsidies to student bedsits!<br />
Let’s see a focus on “a new transport interchange at the heart of the Cardiff Metro”, drop spec developments of offices or student bed-sits and go for the basics.</div>
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womensvoicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17428260490275891865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330183241658420126.post-18454212375579185822017-07-24T07:42:00.001-07:002017-07-24T07:42:49.476-07:00Northcliffe Lodge not enough parking & dodgy sustainable report<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Lodge: Faulty assessment for “sustainability” of the location<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Council planning report (5 Jan 2017
committee) shows officers willing to reduce parking spaces: <i>“The
Council’s Parking Standards SPG require one space per bedroom, and this equates
to two spaces for each of the 23 two bedroom flats and 3 spaces for the 7
larger units. Six spaces are required by the standards for visitor parking,
based on a requirement of 1 space per 5 units. However, the SPG allows for a
relaxation if the site is located sustainably, with good access to local
services and other modes of transport. The <u>site scores well on
sustainability points</u> due to its close proximity to bus stops, a public
house, schools, a restaurant, public open space, community hall and a church.
Consequently, the parking requirements are reduced in accordance with the SPG
to 1 space for the 2 bedroom units and 2 spaces for the three bed units. The
development makes provision for the necessary visitor parking and each of the
30 units would be served by a single parking space. This equates to a shortfall
of 7, when compared against the Council’s Parking Standards”</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The Planning officer calculated 37 </b>– at one
space per two-bed flat, 2 per 3-bed flat.
The new scheme has 24 two-bed and 6 larger, so the total requirement is
now said to be 42 (<i><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">Highway Authority Observation Sheet</span></i><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">, 23 June 2017)</span>. In
comparison, the original 1984 approval for 30 units (84/0206) required 55
parking spaces; that was recognised as inadequate in the adjacent Mariner
Heights decision (~2005) when 1 space per bedroom plus visitor spaces at 1 per
5 units was prescribed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The <i>Parking Standards SPG </i>says they follow the </span>CSS Parking
Standards 2008, but they <span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">categorised the whole north Penarth area and
Penarth Haven as</span>: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><u>Zone
3</u> - Urban - Very much part of a substantial built up area with a number of
basic local facilities within 400m walking distance</i>. (400m from the Clock reaches the top of
Albert Rd).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Objective people would look at
the dearth of “<i>basic local facilities</i>
within 400m, and categorise Northcliffe and Penarth Haven as </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Zone 4</u> - <i>Suburban or Near Urban - This zone comprised the outer edges of the
largest towns; suburban locations in towns.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The CSS Parking Standards 2008
document is restricted to members, but can be found on the internet. Its Appendix 5 has a prescription for
allocating “sustainability points”, which must total 7 or more for a
“sustainability” reduction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Local
facilities</i> (a foodstore, PO, health facility, school etc.): access to two
of these within a 400m walking distance scores 2points, access to more than two
– 4 points. For two within 400-800m
walking distance, the score is 1 point, or for more than two - 2 points. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Access
to a bus stop or railway station</i>: 300m – 3 points; 400m – 2 points, 800m
1-point.</span></div>
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of public transport</i>: if does not operate consistently between 7am and 7pm,
deduct 1 point.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The planning officer states “<i><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">close proximity to bus stops, a public house, schools, a restaurant,
public open space, community hall and a church”</span></i><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">. <b>Let’s measure distances using the google-map
facility, though real distances are further than the map projection, because of
the strongly sloping ground.</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">► Bus Stops – about
100m, on Paget Place <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">► A public house
- the Clive in John St is about 300m<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">► Schools – the officer
apparently included Headlands special school (250m), which is not available to
the local public; Albert Rd primary
school is 450m.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">► A restaurant – the
Custom House is close as the crow flies, but the walking route round by road is
450m; the Pilot on Queens Road is 500m away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">► Public open space
– the Paget Road play area and pocket park is 300m away<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">► Community Hall –
St Pauls is closed; Belle Vue Park hall is hardly used except by the Bowling
club and for special event, is 580m away<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">► Church – St
Augustines is 480m by the most direct route (plus some increase for the steep
slopes)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Sustainability Score </b><i>Within 400m</i><b> – </b>a Pub and Play area - scores 2 points. The officer wrongly included
Headlands school and/or the Custom House restaurant to score 4 points. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Within 800m</i>, there is a
school, GP surgery (unmentioned by the Planner), restaurants etc., but these
still score only the two points.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rail stations are too far away
(1000m), regular buses near the roundabout are 850m away, but anyway score just
1 point – the Paget Place bus-stop scores just 2 points, because of limited
hours (first bus to Cardiff workplaces is 8.25am) and no Sunday service. </span></div>
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Score</b> - <b><i>4 points</i></b>: does not
qualify for any reduced parking spaces.
Even if the Officer included Headlands school and the Custom House
restaurant within the 400m facilities, the score is only 6 points. The Officer might have wrongly taken the bus
service to meet the 7am to 7pm standard (to gross 7 points), though objectors
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poor-quality pavements have to be considered in assessing walkability to facilities**. The town centre clock roundabout is 850m
away, with main buses and general food stores (Post Office slightly
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less fit or with a pushchair and/or shopping, and scarcely possible for those
with mobility problems. Observation shows relatively few people
currently living in the Northcliffe area actually do walk. One mobility scooter user lives near the top
of Paget Road, where the route to the town centre is less steep. Crutch/stick users and scooterists from
Northcliffe would probably take the route up Arcot Road, but dropped kerbs are
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environment in accessing these services will therefore need to be considered” –
it cites the ‘Manual for Streets’ that sustainable ‘walking neighbourhoods’ are
typically characterised as having a range of facilities within 10 minutes
walking distance (around 800 metres). It also notes that the propensity to walk
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<span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The Officers’ planning report to the January 2017 Committee said the </span><i><u>site scores well on sustainability points</u></i><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">. Please supply details of that scoring. Under Appendix 6 to the 2008 Wales Parking Standards,<b> there are none of the cited facilities</b> (foodstore, PO, health, school (Headlands special school is not public)) within the 400m walking distance, the bus stop does not have a service between 7am-7pm.</span></div>
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womensvoicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17428260490275891865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330183241658420126.post-89873697739050933712017-07-22T09:08:00.003-07:002017-07-22T09:14:45.143-07:00Penarth Town Council SECRET groups <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">CHRIS LOYN ARCHITECT of<br />the controversial Northcliffe <br />Development and member of the </span><br />
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Can you tell me why it is acceptable or even necessary to have secret groups such as the Future Projects Partnership and the Strategic Review Group that have town council officers attending but the membership, meetings, agendas and minutes are not open to public scrutiny? Who appoints these people? Members of this group do not need to declare any interests as do elected members yet influence policy and spending decisions. I believe controversial architect Chris Loyn is a member and that <a href="http://www.barryanddistrictnews.co.uk/news/11273001.Carer__quot_stripped_to_underwear_quot__in_female_patients_home/" style="color: #1155cc;">Martin Gossage</a> chairs the Future Projects Group. Members of the community cannot attend these meetings or make comments on the decisions. There is no means of knowing if there is a gender balance. Town council meetings are open to the public but this seems to be a mechanism to enable decision making on the QT by a select few. This system is unacceptable and undemocratic. I do mWill you agree this practice has to end now? I can not accept that this is 'normal' practice. </div>
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I think Penarth Town labour Council practice of having secret advisory groups is undemocratic. </div>
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Recently I made a FOI request to the Penarth Town Council but the town clerk justified having secret advisory groups. So I have written to my town Cllrs and AM....</div>
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<b>FOI answer.</b> This is an excerpt from the town clerks reply </div>
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<i>Additionally, we discussed your opinion of "secretive" groups. This infers that a Council cannot hold internal and private meetings aside from the public committees, which is completely wrong. I advised you that the Future Projects Partnership and the Strategic Review Group are advisory groups and can forward proposals to the official committees. It is for those committees to make the decisions and members of the public are welcome to attend these public meetings to hear what is being said. This is common practice in any efficient organisation or company that is proactive in its approach to working for the people it represents, whether they are town residents and visitors or stakeholders of another kind.</i></div>
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<i>Therefore, as the Strategic Review Group meetings are not part of the Council's <b>official </b>public committee structure, they are not subject to FOI requests. The groups you perceive to be "a closed shop and secretive" are very much working hard for the community of Penarth and dealing with matters at the sharp end. This process makes any organisation that adopts such an approach much more effective in meeting targets and achieving goals and outputs in a set period of time, which I am sure you would support.</i></div>
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<i>Thank you for contacting me and enabling me the opportunity to advise you of the reality of the situation.</i></div>
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<i>Kind regards,</i></div>
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<i>Emma Boylan <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Town Clerk</i></div>
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<i>Full answer here https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/where_can_i_find_the_agenda_and#incoming-994298</i></div>
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Would you not agree that action is required to strengthen the inclusiveness of community and town councils. Community and town councils should actively seek to increase representation from women, ethnic minorities, disabled communities and other hard-to-reach groups. Councils should review the influence of their structures, working practices, meeting times and locations, and communication and consultation strategies in facilitating or restricting participation by different groups within the community. Councils that are inclusive are more responsive to the needs and interests of their community and can more effectively serve that community. Having 'advisory' appointed groups meeting in secret is contrary to these aims. </div>
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womensvoicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17428260490275891865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330183241658420126.post-44558924706209829032017-06-09T09:52:00.002-07:002017-06-09T09:52:50.618-07:00SAY NO to wakeboarding at Cosmeston Lakes Country Park <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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nature reserve. The VoG council owns the park. You can send your
objection to the planning committee by email to </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="mailto:developmentcontrol@valeofglamorgan.gov.uk">developmentcontrol@valeofglamorgan.gov.uk</a>
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on a short, wide board resembling a surfboard and performing acrobatic
manoeuvres while being pulled by a pulley on a raised wire. </span></div>
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proposal requires</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #3b4a1e; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: #3b4a1e; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">installation</span><span style="color: #363135; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> of
an electric cable wakeboarding system equipment and a mechanical store, new male
changing facilities + a Wake Park Reception; conversion of park’s store room for
a female changing area at Cosmeston visitor centre.” It includes a 6
square metre shipping container behind the southern pylon to house the power
supply and controlling equipment for the wakeboarding cable
system, floating features to be tethered in position with anchors lines to
the lake floor, a pontoon and trees may be felled. The peace and tranquility
of Cosmeston country park would be seriously disturbed by commercial cable-wakeboarding
where wakeboarders are towed by a wire steer around obstacles. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #363135; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Object
to the visual impact of ugly 'tower-supports for the towing wires, also noise
from wakeboards hitting the water and from the PA system. This will be worse
during the competitions as scheduled. The Council claim of environment-friendly
is false, when such noisy water activity will scare off many if not all the
visiting and resident birds. </span></div>
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The lake has a resident population of up to 60 Mute Swans. some of which nest,
occasionally a similar number of Canada Geese, 100's of Gulls and Coot, other
wildfowl from autumn through to spring, birds such as Reed Warbler, Sedge
Warbler, Reed Bunting which nest in the reed bed and would doubtless be
disturbed by the wakeboards' wash. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #363135; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Cosmeston
Lakes has 25.6ha designated as a SSSI to protect a rare plant called Starry
stonewort (Nitellopsis obtuse). Cosmeston country park and nature
reserve is a success story and loved by the community. Please scrap the whole
idea of wake-boarding at Cosmeston. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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womensvoicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17428260490275891865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330183241658420126.post-36274529909220525782017-05-29T12:24:00.002-07:002017-05-29T12:24:47.439-07:00Discuss saving our Penarth Heritage Wed 31st May<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have reserved space in the Albion
on Glebe Street, next Wed. evening 31st May, from 7pm. Do come along and discuss saving our
heritage!<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">Save PENARTH’s HERITAGE</span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;"> – we’ve recently had some bad
decisions and officer recommendations on the Coastguard Tower, Ashdene and
Northcliffe Lodge. Fortunately Councillors were alert to the last-named and
turned it down. Our Victorian street
lights have been replaced by ugly modern ones, the Town Council itself is
replacing Victorian seats with ‘brutalist’ concrete ones. Pernarth Civic Society opposed some of these
but too weakly and politely.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the
election of new councillors on the Vale and Town Councils, there’s need for a public
pressure group to defend our conservation areas and heritage from a planning
department too complaint with developers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Mint-&-Mustard
(Windsor Place) alterations are a prime example. This application in a
conservation area should have been thrown out by the Vale planning officers
right from the start. There is no report from the conservation officer. The
Town council approved it just pre-election! It hasn’t been called in. We fear the Vale
officers will give it the nod. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then there
is the Northcliffe development. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Will you
make preservation of Penarth conservation areas a priority? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Will you
stop the Vale highways department having carte blanche to do works changing our
pavements and street ‘furniture’ without consultation or checking? Issues are
replacing traditional lamp-posts with miscellaneous designs, replacing paving
with various different materials not appropriate for our central conservation
area.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Conservation
areas are 'areas of special architectural or historic interest'. The special
interest does not only relate to buildings but also includes how all the
features (listed or otherwise) of a place come together to make a distinctive
environment. It includes:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the mix of uses<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the historic layout<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">characteristic buildings<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">paving materials and street
furniture<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Conservation
areas have extra planning controls applied to them to help preserve or enhance
their character and protect their settings.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yet the Vale
Council’s conservation officer for the Vale supported modern extensions to the
side and rear of Penarth’s historic Victorian coastguard tower on Tower Hill;
approved new wings on Ashdene Manor on condition that they did not closely
resemble the existing, and who argued that modern box-flats at Northcliffe
Lodge would not affect the ‘setting’ of the listed Custom House just below. He
even approved a flat-roofed extension to Cotterell Lodge the 300 yr-old listed thatched
house on the main A48 between St Nicholas and Bonvilston. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Vale
officers generally have little regard for street trees, refusing to replace
ones felled due to hazard or age, despite their being part of our ‘distinctive
environment’. Nor do they restrict huge
gaudy shop-frontages. The Town Council
decided to fell the mature Robinia tree in front of their West House offices,
despite a good-health assessment.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What can be
done to defend our town’s character and historical streets? We propose an informal meeting of people
wanting to take a stand for Penarth to discuss possible Penarth ‘Heritage’
co-ordination or an information/pressure group. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now we have
wake boarding at Cosmeston going to VoG planning soon…. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Anne
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Max Wallis
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womensvoicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17428260490275891865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330183241658420126.post-83654589213664498112017-03-16T08:20:00.001-07:002017-03-16T08:20:03.385-07:00Plaid Cymru says NO to a BUS Priority Lane through Penarth <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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womensvoicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17428260490275891865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330183241658420126.post-11049342115048637372017-03-05T07:10:00.000-08:002017-03-05T07:13:46.038-08:00Penarth Town council refuses to answer questions on secret 'momentum' group<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="line-height: 24px; text-align: left;">Alice Turner Customer Services Lead Penarth Town Council 029 2071 3841 </span><a href="http://www.penarthtowncouncil.gov.uk/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1567ae; line-height: 24px; text-align: left;">www.penarthtowncouncil.gov.uk</a></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: normal;">The FOI response received on the "Future Projects Partnership" and the "Penarth Bench" says "</span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">All funding for projects is approved through public meetings of Council Committees – as outlined above. If such approval is not granted, then projects are not taken forward." </i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: normal;">This is a grossly misleading statement. It implies that the Town Council - or a Town Council committee - sits in open session and assesses proposals by the "Future Projects Parnership" PRIOR TO authorising expenditure.</span></b></div>
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I asked 'Who are the members?' of the momentum group.</div>
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Your don't answer that question. Please tell me who the three Cllrs are who 'sit' on the cmte and how often they have attended meetings. A recruitment exercise in 2014 is well out of date, and is not an excuse for hiding the identities of its members.</div>
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<span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">The Town Council is not required to reveal the identities of community members who sit on a community group on a voluntary basis. For information, the Councillors who sit on the Group, as Observers, are Councillors Cuddy, Thomas and Turner. They have attended over 90% of meetings over the last 12 months.</span></div>
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I have identified members as Chris Loyn, Gary Soltys and Peter Knowles The chair is Martin Gossage as well as Chris Edwards? the Vale of Glamorgan’s new Town Centre Manager.</div>
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<span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">The Vale of Glamorgan Council’s Town Centre Manager sits on the Group in an advisory capacity.</span></div>
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Why is the small group all men and unrepresentative of the community.<br />
There are not Representatives from the Civic Trust, or the Friends of Belle Vue sit on Group as I was at the AGMs of both and no person was appointed to that cmte.</div>
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">The Group contains women members. Representatives from the Friends of Belle Vue and the Civic Trust sit on the Group.</span></div>
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Please send me the minutes of the meeting of the Council’s Strategic Review Group where funding for this group was discussed as it is not on your website .</div>
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The Strategic Review Meeting is not a Council Committee – no minutes are available to members of the public. All Committee Minutes are published on the PTC website.</div>
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Can you explain the law or basis on which this secretive group has been formed, which is making important decisions and spending our money, to avoid scrutiny and hide the membership from the public.<br />
The existence of this secretive group is in contravention of the guidance for Community and Town Councils in Wales, issued, in part, under section 55 of the Local Government (Democracy) (Wales) Act 2013. Section 55 places duties on local authorities to make certain information available electronically. When carrying out their duties under section 55, Community and Town Councils have a statutory duty to have regard to this guidance.</div>
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">Please see previous reply. This is a Community Group. Any Town Council funding associated with the Group’s projects is approved via public committee.</span></div>
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Councils have a requirement to advertise council meetings and proceedings and registers of members’ interests. The members in this group are in fact acting as co-opted members and their names and political affiliations should be recorded in the interest of transparency.</div>
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I look forward to the complete information asap.</div>
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<span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">Please note, in line with the following advice from the Information Commission if any <b>further requests are made in relation to this issue, then a charge will be made</b>:</span></div>
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From the Information Commissioner:</div>
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"A public authority can charge for the time taken by its staff on the activities included in communicating the information.</div>
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Regulation 7(5) indicates that staff time is to be charged at the flat rate of £25 per hour, irrespective of whether a higher rate is actually incurred by internal staff or charged by external contractor staff. "</div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: source sans pro, helvetica neue, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/who_controls_the_momentum_group#incoming-946041</span></span></div>
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womensvoicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17428260490275891865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330183241658420126.post-49570849541023235182017-02-24T09:53:00.001-08:002017-02-27T04:46:03.877-08:00Open letter to my Councillors re daft £1,080 bench <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Penarth Bench' outside Barclays Bank <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Why is the 'Penarth bench' not on the agenda for the next </span><span style="line-height: 16.8667px;">meeting of PENARTH TOWN COUNCIL on TUESDAY, 28 th FEBRUARY 2017 at 7.00 p.m?</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Where is the report on the consultation?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Who made the decision to allow the secretive unelected group ‘Future Projects Partnership’, who failed to create a suitable bench at a £1,080, to be funded to create yet another version without this being discussed at thPenarth Town council e Town council meeting. Not only is it useless for elderly or disabled people, it isn’t even appropriate for a conservation area. Will you discuss why can't we have traditional benches that are more appropriate and cheaper for Penarth? </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrLPyDh-CdGk9WG6fbJU62a_qM_hu2jR5WoRDfwDv1mQ_ik32ZV74k7gPhXBYdyhQy5lLdhLNNVfJ7Wba_2H0Gm7yCzNRUUhGOl89S3-Ad14xqh3193IZAHhppni8DLfyqYCFIiKiKDPtJ/s1600/Chris+Loyn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrLPyDh-CdGk9WG6fbJU62a_qM_hu2jR5WoRDfwDv1mQ_ik32ZV74k7gPhXBYdyhQy5lLdhLNNVfJ7Wba_2H0Gm7yCzNRUUhGOl89S3-Ad14xqh3193IZAHhppni8DLfyqYCFIiKiKDPtJ/s200/Chris+Loyn.jpg" width="183" /></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="line-height: 22.75pt;">Designed by unelected Chris Loyn who </span><span style="line-height: 30.3333px;">specialises</span><span style="line-height: 22.75pt;"> in brutalist style architecture who has scant regard for the preservation of our conservation areas in Penarth and failed to get his recent concrete creations past planning.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The town council has to be open and transparent by law but is breaking that requirement by allowing this sub group to make decisions and spend tax payers money although they are unaccountable. They should advertise their meetings, publish agendas and minutes. If this group members want to be involved let them stand for election. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3px; line-height: 35px;">Mike Cuddy mikecuddypenarth@gmail.com</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3px; line-height: 35px;">Philip Rapier Philip.rapier@hotmail.co.uk</span></span></div>
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womensvoicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17428260490275891865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330183241658420126.post-53357293910330175112017-02-21T06:23:00.000-08:002017-02-21T06:23:04.513-08:00Air Pollution Survey in Penarth <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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testing tube attached to the telegraph pole, now taken down at the end of the 4
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exposure in Cogan, at the roadside by the Windsor Rd bus stop. Queuing
cars, buses and lorries make this a pollution hotspot. Too many diesel vehicles. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><i>Anne Greagsby is the Plaid Cymru Candidate for St Augustines ward. Vote Plaid if you want green policies with action </i></span></span></div>
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Barry, as well as this site. Windsor Road, Cogan is a<a href="https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/aqma/"> designated AQMA</a>, where the Council has to monitor specially
and come up with an ‘action plan’. The Council has moved its special
monitor from the Andrew Road corner to a box adjacent to the pedestrian
crossing (second picture), where pollution levels appeared to be lower in
2014-15**, but by law they have to choose a site where public exposure to
pollution is highest.** Vale of lamorgan Council: 2016 Air Quality Progress
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Glamorgan Council: </span><a href="ttps://www.valeofglamorgan.gov.uk/Documents/_Committee%20Reports/Cabinet/2016/16-10-17/Reports/Air-Quality-Report-Cabinet-Report.pdf" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2016 Air Quality Progress Report </a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://www.valeofglamorgan.gov.uk/Documents/_Committee%20Reports/Cabinet/2016/16-10-17/Appendices/Air-Quality-Report-Appendix-1.pdf" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here </a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The automatic pollution monitor used to be at the Andrew Road corner. Its high readings near or exceeding the NO2 limit (40 ug/m3) led to the decision to declare the Air Quality Management Area. This area was drawn to include all the Cogan housing on Windsor Road, a few diffusion tube monitors showing high levels up the terrace too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The automatic monitor has read lower than co-located diffusion tubes in both 2014 and 2015, since it was moved from Andrew Road corner. So there must be a question, is it sampling the air properly?. </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Results vary from year to year, largely die to weather conditions; the regulations require the worst weather conditions to be covered, so finding that 2014 and 2015 were low does not allow the VoG to revoke the AQMA and abandon their (non-existent) action plan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The shops at the old Docks station (tubes at 'Marine scene') show readings of 40 or more .from 2011-2014, generally higher than the Andrew Road corner. The VoG report declined to extend the AQMA to include the shops and the corner businesses, as they said the general public is not exposed for long.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, however, the Council officers are recommending approval of new housing (44 social housing units), despite the probability of unlawful pollution levels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Air Quality assessment predicts air pollution will be no problem, on a model that predicts substantially lower NO2 levels by 2018. The modelling is nonsensical</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">uses winds measured at Rhoose, far stronger and different directions from at Cogan</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">uses background levels scaled from Fonmon, instead of Cardiff area urban levels</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">assumes flowing traffic, not the stopping and starting vehicles up to the Terra Firma Way and Barons Court roundabouts. </span></li>
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womensvoicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17428260490275891865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330183241658420126.post-70861960904649526912017-01-17T12:40:00.002-08:002017-01-17T13:09:36.900-08:00Whoops! Green Party in Wales bad spelling and false claims <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>As the green party in Wales has made St Augustines Ward their only target seat in the region we would point out that their pinned post on their GREEN PARTY WALES twitter page boasts </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">careless mistakes in spelling ... </span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;">Centers, stoped , succsesses, representitvies</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; text-align: left;"> and false claims ....</span></div>
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An 'activist' group succeeded the community '<span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Campaign to Stop <i>Vogen Energy</i>'s Biofuel Power<span class="m_5849279029348613770gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Station'; they prepared for a Planning Appeal, but the group fizzled out when instead a new application was submitted based on gas-fuelling (approved May 2011, amended in 2015 and Jan. 2016; being built). The community campaign was led by Newport FoE with help from Greenpeace and Biofuelswatch (concerned about Palm Oil plantations); Bartolotti posted a couple of items in 2010 on the Facebook page (Newport against biofuels) and remains one of the 4 Facebook members (using it for sharing the last post of Sept.2011). </div>
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<span style="color: #333333;">The £50 million centre will be used to dry out materials, such as wood chipping, using a natural gas-powered turbine.</span><span class="m_5849279029348613770gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: grey;"> </span></span><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #545454;">At yesterday's meeting, a spokeswoman for campaign group<span class="m_5849279029348613770gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em><b><span style="color: #6a6a6a; font-style: normal;">Newport Against Biofuel</span></b></em><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #545454;">, said residents were concerned about the plant's potential ..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We asked for further documents and clarification early on 3rd January, but have received no answers. Doubtless the holiday provides a reason for no reply as yet. T</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">he officers scheduling the application over the holiday has meant that the requirement for documents 3-days pre-meeting has not been met.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">A late view of the Ecology Officer is quoted, again without the full document in the e-file necessary for context and verification. The quotation</span><span style="font-family: 'courier new';"> <i>“</i></span><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><i>The Council’s Ecologist has made an assessment of the likely impact of the development on protected species and habitats in full accordance with Council policy and national guidance”</i> implies a specific assessment that is not supplied or even evidenced in the papers. The required survey of trees for bat-roosts was never completed, as it omitted the parts of the site alongside the Northcliffe Apartments. The ecological status of the site as </span><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Lowland mixed deciduous woodland means it is</span> a Wales <i>priority habitat </i>in the Section 7 list under the Environment Act and under the Biodiversity Action Plans<span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">;</span>the officers’ report fails to mention this.</div>
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The Historical 1840 Summerhouse was mentioned in the original report as “derelict and in need of repair”. Amending the site perimeter to leave this out would cut off access to this building, except by permission of the developer who claims not to own it. The officers report fails to mention this ‘orphan’ building and access to it, despite FoE asking for access to be secured and responsibility determined. The cultural-historical interest in repairs to this building and access to a unique viewing point should take precedence in spending S.106 funds, rather than the officers’ choice of public art and community facilities remote from the site.</div>
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womensvoicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17428260490275891865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330183241658420126.post-6891700293138633592017-01-03T07:04:00.000-08:002017-01-03T07:04:50.551-08:00Penarth Council want feedback on £1,080 bench <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Its a great idea to have more benches in Penarth especially on the hills! </span>However I am concerned that this new 'Penarth bench' does not conform to standards for disabled and elderly people. The bench is too low at 16 inches to allow people to sit and rise with ease. The 'arm rest' is too high and wide to enable one to use it to enable sitting and standing. A back is an necessity. A small back section on either side is insufficient as a mistake while sitting down could lead to a life threatening fall. Concrete is cold and unpleasant to lean on. The 'decoration' is barely visible unless photographed and enlarged. It is not fitting in any conservation area. You might have consulted the 50+ forum on the design or any group of older people first. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"> The Town council wants to buy and install more of these “</span><em style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Penarth Benches</em><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"> “ in other locations around the town centre even though it’s </span><strong style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">£300</strong><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"> more expensive than the Vale Council new Penarth Esplanade benches </span></span></div>
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womensvoicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17428260490275891865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330183241658420126.post-28505321370650099572016-12-30T07:20:00.001-08:002016-12-30T07:22:06.535-08:00NO to Penarth Northcliffe lodge "LITTLE BOXES" SCHEME <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Venue<strong> COUNCIL CHAMBER, CIVIC OFFICES</strong></span></div>
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Our historic mature woodland in St. Augustine’s Ward would be trashed for spec housing on the side of the cliff.<br />
<b>►high risk of landslide, just above the Custom House hotel - <a href="file:///C:/Users/User.User-PC/Downloads/Preliminary%20Slope%20Stability%20Report.pdf">See here</a><br />►rich reserve of up to 40 trees and wildlife to go<br />►a big gash in Penarth’s iconic wooded headland<br />►the developers refuse their share of affordable housing<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"><br />►the developers pretend new residents will walk or bus to town, so plan few car-spaces, creating a parking problem</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="line-height: 19.32px;">Planning</span></span><a href="http://www.valeofglamorgan.gov.uk/Documents/Living/Planning/Committee/2017/Planning-Committee-05-01-17.pdf" style="color: #1d2129; line-height: 19.32px;"> papers here</a><span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="line-height: 19.32px;"> More </span></span><span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="line-height: 19.32px;">details </span></span><span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="line-height: 19.32px;"> </span></span></span></b><span style="color: #10769e; line-height: 1em;">Details for : <a href="http://vogonline.planning-register.co.uk/PlaRecord.aspx?AppNo=2015/01449/FUL">2015/01449/FUL</a> </span></span></div>
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ST AUGUSTINES<br />
WARD PENARTH<br />
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<strong>VoG planning cmte - those in bold also St Augustines Ward and members of Penarth Town Council </strong></div>
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<strong>Chairman</strong>: Councillor Fred Johnson <a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/CllrFred" style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); color: #8899a6; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">CllrFred</span></a></div>
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<strong>Vice-Chairman</strong>: Councillor Margaret Wilkinson</div>
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<strong>Councillors</strong>: Rhiannon Birch, Jonathan Bird, Bronwen Brooks, <b>Lis Burnett </b><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #66757f; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.25px;">@lisburnett</span><b style="font-size: 12.16px; line-height: 17.024px;">,</b><span style="font-size: 12.16px; line-height: 17.024px;"> Pamela Drake, John Drysdale, Chris Franks, Eric Hacker, Howard Hamilton, Val Hartrey, Nic Hodges </span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/NP_H13" style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); color: #8899a6; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: #8899a6; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px;">@</span></span><span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="background: rgb(245 , 248 , 250); color: #8899a6; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">NP_H13</span></a><span style="font-size: 12.16px; line-height: 17.024px;">, Jeff James, Peter King </span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/CllrKing" style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); color: #8899a6; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none !important;"><span style="color: #8899a6; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px;">@</span></span><span class="u-linkComplex-target" style="background: rgb(245 , 248 , 250); color: #8899a6; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">CllrKing</span></a><span style="font-size: 12.16px; line-height: 17.024px;">, Andrew Parker, Bob Penrose, Anthony Powell, Audrey Preston,</span><b style="font-size: 12.16px; line-height: 17.024px;"> Gwyn Roberts </b><span style="font-size: 12.16px; line-height: 17.024px;">and Clive Williams.</span></div>
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<b><u><a href="http://www.valeofglamorgan.gov.uk/Documents/Living/Planning/Committee/2017/Planning-Committee-05-01-17.pdf">Penarth Town Council SAYS NO </a> </u></b></div>
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That the application should<b> not be approved </b>for the
following reasons:- </div>
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1. Overdominant form of development that could threaten the future of the
listed buildings, Custom House and Marine Building. </div>
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2. Overcrowded form of development. </div>
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3. Detrimental to this iconic headland known as the Bears Head believed to
be where the name of Penarth is derived.</div>
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4. Request the Vale Council’s own ecology officer carry out a comprehensive
ecology survey as it is considered that the submitted survey is inadequate.
Local Knowledge is aware of an extensive and active bat population. </div>
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5. The loss of so many mature trees is also of concern.
If the Vale Council is minded to approved the application the Town Council
wishes to reserve the right to comment at a later date with regard to any S106
agreement and the community needs within the locality. </div>
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womensvoicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17428260490275891865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330183241658420126.post-7357648391790498772016-12-16T08:43:00.000-08:002016-12-16T12:33:13.222-08:00Cllr Lis Burnett disses petition asking not to bring Wakeboarding to Cosmeston Lakes Country Park <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Anne Greagsby started <a href="http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/955/326/341/">the petition on the 5th December 2016 </a>signed by 14,000. </b></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Cllr Lis Burnett called the <br />petition inaccurate - <br />spurious - untrue- fabricated<br />So thats a NO I won't listen then</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cllr Burnett mocked the petition making accusations of exaggeration and deception, accused Anne of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; color: #1d2129; line-height: 16.08px;">fabricating stories to create spurious petitions Cllr Burnett</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><em style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"I would reassure members that if just a small fraction of the some of the tales of impending carnage and destruction in our much-loved Country Park were actually true then I’d probably signing the wholly inaccurate petition launched and handed in by the recently announced Penarth Plaid Cymru candidate for next year’s local government elections …..But it’s not true and so I won’t be signing" </span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cllr Burnett claims this wake boarding scheme was discussed and consulted on but that is not true. Water activities and a zip wire do not equate to WAKEBOARDING. Discussion at cabinet is not consultation. Dec1st 2016 was the date of the press release. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The VoG council is keen to introduce commercial activities to our parks and Cllr Franks and Cllr Ernest raised objections and alarm at potential plans. We've already experienced rowing competitions with loud PA system, showing a failure to control noise. They promised not to disturb bird-life on the lake, so few would have envisaged </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">wakeboarding </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with splash-noise, back-wash and PA-led competitions in the peaceful nature reserve. Money-making activities despite the intrusion scaring off wildlife from the lake is Burnett's agenda (answer at Council meeting of 15 Dec. - video clip). She talked of working with Natural Resources Wales, whose only concern is the special underwater algae, not the normal resident and breeding birds. The proposal hasn't been to planning yet, but worryingly the council could just grant itself permission.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.valeofglamorgan.gov.uk/en/our_council/council/minutes,_agendas_and_reports/reports/cabinet/2016/16-01-11/Tourism-and-Commercial-Opportunities-at-Countryside-Service-Sites.aspx">The Vale of Glamorgan Council Cabinet Meeting:</a> 11 January, 2016 <span style="font-size: xx-small;">Report of the Cabinet
Member for Regeneration Tourism and Commercial Opportunities at Countryside
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.024px;">To seek authority to invite tenders from potential commercial partners in order to create new tourism and commercial opportunities at Porthkerry Country Park, Cosmeston Lakes Country Park & Medieval Village. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>12th April 2016</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.valeofglamorgan.gov.uk/en/our_council/council/minutes,_agendas_and_reports/reports/scrutiny_ee/2016/16-04-12/Tourism-and-Commercial-Opportunities.aspx" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.1em;">The Vale of Glamorgan Council </a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.1em;"><a href="http://www.valeofglamorgan.gov.uk/en/our_council/council/minutes,_agendas_and_reports/reports/scrutiny_ee/2016/16-04-12/Tourism-and-Commercial-Opportunities.aspx">Scrutiny Committee </a>(Economy and Environment): 12th April 2016 </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.1em;">Report of the Managing Director </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.1em;">Tourism and Commercial Opportunities at Countryside Service Sites. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17.024px;">To report the progress made with regard to the engagement of third party operators in relation to commercial opportunities at Countryside sites.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://penarthnews.wordpress.com/2016/10/27/vale-council-reveals-more-details-of-plans-to-cash-in-on-cosmeston">VALE COUNCIL REVEALS MORE DETAILS OF PLANS TO CASH-IN ON COSMESTON </a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cllr Chris Franks (Plaid Dinas Powys)</strong> has already demanded that the public should be given full details of the Cosmeston proposals .<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“It is not right that this much-loved country park is facing potentially disruptive activities but the public are denied a say on matters. We recognise that there are financial challenges but that is no excuse for this secrecy.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="background-color: white; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Penarth town councillor, Cllr Anthony Ernest (Conservative Plymouth Ward)</strong><span style="background-color: white;">, who represents part of the Cosmeston Park area, says “</span><span style="background-color: white; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Whilst I recognise there may be some need to raise a reasonable income from this much loved country park, which presently attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors each year, the proposals do seem completely over the top in their scope, and I am not convinced that we need to turn this haven of wildlife into the latest theme park in Wales. </span><span style="background-color: white;">T</span><span style="background-color: white; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">here seems to be a hell-bent wish on behalf of the current Labour administration in the Vale of Glamorgan to do away with those natural facilities that so many of our residents and visitors really enjoy, and I remain to be convinced that this is little more than a cost cutting exercise... with grandiose ideas for fun fairs, cable wires and the like.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cable Wakeboarding Application Submitted at Cosmeston Lakes Country Park </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #595858; line-height: 22.5px;">As well as bringing new visitors to the country park the activity is likely to attract interest in Cosmeston from across the UK as from 2017 it will be used as part of the UK competition circuit. </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 22.5px;">Gareth Stevenson of </span><strong style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 22.5px;">Cosmeston Lakes Wake Park said:......</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><b>5th December 2016 </b>- Vale Council (@VOGCouncil) tweeted at 1:00 pm on Mon, Dec 05, 2016: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a href="https://t.co/ptDQemIfr2%20https://t.co/n8GkpoaqQ2">Wakeboarding could be first new activity on offer at Cosmeston Country Park </a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/petition-against-horrific-plans-create-12286607#ICID=sharebar_twitter">6,000 people back petition against 'horrific' wakeboarding park plans </a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://penarthnews.wordpress.com/2016/12/11/9000-sign-on-line-petition-opposing-cosmeston-wake-board-plan/">9,000 SIGN ON-LINE PETITION OPPOSING COSMESTON WAKE-BOARD PLAN </a> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://penarthnews.wordpress.com/2016/12/12/no-winter-wake-boarding-to-be-allowed-at-cosmeston-says-vale/">NO WINTER WAKE-BOARDING TO BE ALLOWED AT COSMESTON - SAYS VALE </a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://penarthnews.wordpress.com/2016/12/14/vale-council-to-receive-cosmeston-country-park-petition-tonight/">VALE COUNCIL TO RECEIVE COSMESTON COUNTRY PARK PETITION TONIGHT </a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://penarthnews.wordpress.com/2016/12/15/wake-boarding-isnt-the-same-thing-as-waterboarding-says-burnett">COSMESTON ROW: 'WAKE-BOARDING' ISN'T LIKE 'WATER-BOARDING' - SAYS BURNETT </a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cllr Burnett tried to joke about waterboarding and answered Qs she </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">wasn't asked </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 24px;">“</span><strong style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333;">No pylons will be erected across the lake"</span><span style="color: navy;">. </span></em></strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 24px;">Seeking to minimise the potential impact of the scheme, she said that it involved a</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 24px;"> </span><strong style="border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“slim A-frame set on land in tall wooded-areas on each of two sides at one end of the Eastern lake.</em></strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 24px;">” She continued:</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 24px;"> </span><em style="border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>“a small area of the lake would be set aside for safe and managed use”</b>. </em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 24px;">Emphasising the word </span><em style="border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“quiet</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 24px;">” Cllr Burnett said “</span><em style="border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>a <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">quiet</span> electric motor would pull users across the lake on a wire”. </b> </em><span style="background-color: white;">Nothing about splash and boat noise, or loud speaker/PA systems, or crowds of spectators for wakeboarding competitions.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">People who seek more car parking in Penarth should react to the real prospect that threatens us, from the 500 place Park&Ride at Cosmeston. Labour’s LDP requires ‘bus priority measures’ along the route from Lavernock Rd to the Barrage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Their route goes up Westbourne Road, then Stanwell Road to the roundabout, through the town centre down to High Street, then up to Paget Road over to the barrage. Bus priority means deleting car parking from the library up to the Clock and in Windsor Road shopping centre, so that buses are no longer subject to the delays from parking manoeuvres and congestion there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Why not route the new buses instead via </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hickman Road and Arcot Street? That would affect more residential car parking, so they have chosen to inflict it on the town centre.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These Park & Ride buses won’t serve Penarth but pass straight through, as the P&R is a ‘regional‘ facility aimed to get people speedily to Cardiff via the barrage, by-passing the Penarth Road congestion. The 500 places will be quickly taken up by new people in the dormitory suburbs of upper Cosmeston (576 dwellings) and Sully (600 houses). Not really ‘regional’, though they might argue existing residents in lower Penarth, Sully and east Barry would use it. It’s supposed to significantly reduce congestion at the Merrie Harrier and Barons Court, so 500 places will be too few. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let’s anticipate further plans to double the size to 1000 spaces and a decision to allow it to stop and pick up in Windsor Road shops. Or will they see the nonsense and start the buses from the new Sully/Cosmeston estates, labelling them as superior rapid transit ‘metro’ buses? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Why have Cllrs Lis Burnett and Peter King not informed us about it in Penarth, and won people to the proposal, being previous and present Cabinet members responsible for transport and the LDP and both representing Penarth wards? Why the reticence to tell us of this exciting new future?</span></div>
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womensvoicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17428260490275891865noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5330183241658420126.post-88797328559311322132016-11-04T07:39:00.000-07:002016-11-04T07:39:34.062-07:00NO to dodgy Sully housing development application<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><a href="https://penarthnews.wordpress.com/2016/11/03/dont-mention-those-dodgy-letters-vale-cllrs-are-warned/">Emphatic rejection of housing development in the coastal zone east of Sully</a>, after the brilliant local opposition and exposure of fraud </span><span class="m_8906291733429347805gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.5pt;">It "</span><i>would fail to respect the coastal setting and open nature of the existing site and its setting against the existing settlement of Sully, where a need for a coastal location for such development cannot be demonstrated</i>" said the rejection.<span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"></span></div>
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The Officers repeat the Welsh planning guidance that says "<i>essential to demonstrate that a coastal location is required</i>" for major housing developments in the coastal zone. They also give weight to protecting the rural setting of our section of the Wales Coastal Path.<span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"></span></div>
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What implications for the LDP proposing to add a 240-house estate in the coastal zone at Upper Cosmeston Farm? A worse transgression of the undeveloped coast than at Sully and much further from facilities.</div>
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Will Cllr Burnett now fall on her sword and now reject this dreadful case for dormitory housing, in our precious Coastal zone which the LDP (Local Development Plan) intended to protect with "green wedge" designation?</div>
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