Email sent on behalf of the Pontyclun New Town Centre Working Group
For the attention of Mr Jim Bailey
Representation on Planning Application 11/1330/13
(addendum and revised plans received August 2012) and the Talbot Green Town
Centre (Phase 1) Design and Access Statement September
2012.
Land adjacent to Cowbridge Road and A473 (inc Leekes
Dept Store, former Purolite works and Staedtler factory site), Talbot Green,
CF72 8XU.
Dear Mr Bailey
This is the third submission from the Pontyclun New Town
working group. The first two submitted in December 2011 and September 2012
should be read as providing the main response to the September 2012 Design and
Access Statement taking forward Phase 1 of the proposed development in relation
to the establishment of a new Sainsburys Supermarket.
We remain concerned that the September Phase 1 application
again refers in detail to the discussions between the developer and RCT but has
little regard to the issues we have raised on behalf of the community. We trust
and hope that the councillors will have proper regard the issues raised in our
submission when they consider the proposals on 6 December 2012.
In this submission we wish to emphasis two points made that
we made in the earlier submissions.
1.
The
basic assumption of the plan is to encourage the diversion of local car based
retail consumers from in RCT and other local areas to this development. Yet the
plan still does not include a specific plan to improve the highway structure to
accommodate your planned expected increase in traffic. The junction of the A473
and the A4119 is already a bottleneck at peak times, resulting in ‘rat runs’
through other largely residential areas. This will undoubtedly increase if this
development progresses without prior attention to the highway
infrastructure.
2.
The
plan for Sainsbury’s continues to include building on a greenfield area when
sufficient space is available on brownfield land.
In addition to the points highlighted above we note under
section 3.3 that contamination of the ex Purolite site was identified and
‘remediation work to the ground has been carried out’. We would wish to be
provided with details of what this work entailed and how it is expected to cope
with the contamination identified?
We attach for completeness our previous letters in response
to the application(s).
Kind regards
Yours sincerely
Claire Williams & Len Arthur
On behalf of the Pontyclun New Town Centre Working
Group
42 Heol Miskin
Pontyclun
CF72 9AJ
SOLD FOR A COULIFLOWER !
ReplyDeletePant Marsh runs along the river Clun, between Talbot Green and Pontclun, and is one of the very few natural marshland left in Wales.It is a valuable open space, and part of what makes Pontyclun a good village to live in and to bring up children.
But at a meeting on the 28th of February,RCTplanning and control comittee aproved the development of a new town retail centre at Talbot Green.This, dispite some very sound objections raised by myself and many others including your own councillors M and P Griffiths. the eventual decission was obviously a foregone conclusion, and nothing was going to impress them.councillor after councillor spoke for the development, one councillor in particular made the comment that she and her neighbours wanted to be ably to buy a fresh couliflower at Sainsburys, hence the heading .
What I find seriously bizarre and unreal is the article in RCTs newspaper OUTLOOK, the article headed "town centre transformation" where the same people crow about the hugh sums of money invested ,about 11 million in all,in regenerating both Ponty and Abadere,and at the same time rationalizing the reason for allowing Valads development to go ahead, is that it will stop money leaving the valley's and to shop in Cardiff and divert it instead to Talbot Green.the thinking being that will generate wealth within the valley
WRONG. What impact is that going to have on both the existing Talbot Green complex ,and on Ponty ,Abadare and all the little villages and towns in between ?.
RCT has spent our time and money on a "shop local " campaign to keep villages functioning ,
there is a blinding contradiction here ,don't you think?
Valad has no interest in our little valley , they have profits to make , but I expected more
from the people I knocked doors for to get them elected .The lack of long term joined up thinking beggers belief.
I and others have asked the Welsh Government to "CALL IN " this development, in a last attempt to save us from this monstrous development .I am very fond of Pontyclun, I just wish it had the representation it deserves,
and a bit more fizz in its pop to realize the price of a cauli is not worth risking the things that make Pontclun worth living , as the telly tells us "because we'r worth it " .
I have resolved never to give my hard earned cash to line Valad's pockets, dispite the fact that I love the cinema, I will shop local and try and get our own cinema in Pontyclun . why not ? Cowbridge has .
Ann Bennett resident.