Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Background and introduction

The blog has been set up to support the debate about the proposed new development in the Pant Valley Llantrisant. This development - which has been called a new town centre - is being proposed by a company called Valad Developments Llantrisant Ltd, which in turn is totally owned subsidiary of two international property development companies known as VALAD and Scarborough Group.

The company is proposing to make a submission to Rhondda Cynon Taf County Council for outline planning permission in the very near future. As part of the preparation for this submission an exhibition was held over three days toward the end of June 2011. A considerable amount of new information came to light during discussions surrounding these exhibitions which will be of interest to people living close to the development in Llantrisant, Pontyclun and Talbot Green.

The Pontyclun Labour Party thought it would help if people from these areas came together to discuss the proposals and as a result a public open forum was held on 12 July 2011.

A report of the meeting follows as the next post. It was generally agreed that it would be useful to prepare to make a submission to RCT when the planning application is made to try to ensure that a range of concerns were taken into account. A working group composed of volunteers from the meeting was established to start to take this work forward.

It is expected that open forums will be held bi-monthly to continue to involve local people in the submission process.

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