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Community Council News October 2023

Community Council News – October 2023

Police Matters:

The current statistics cover the last two months and have been divided to show Wenvoe and Culverhouse Cross separately. In this period there have been eight incidents in Wenvoe involving 3 ASBs and a variety of criminal damage, aggressive and suspicious males and vehicles, and thefts from vehicles. At Culverhouse Cross there have been 32 incidents of which 24 were thefts. The remainder involve aggressive males and dogs, arson and ASBs.

Planning Updates:

Land at Chapel Terrace To amend the planning permission for a barn which was constructed in contravention of the originally approved design. Approved
Copthorne Hotel: Two officials from Cardiff City Council attended the Council meeting to explain what is happening at the hotel. Cardiff Council have now signed an agreement to hire the hotel for six months in order to alleviate a severe housing shortage in the city. They already have four hotels on hire in Cardiff but have been unable to acquire any others and have been forced to look outside the city. Despite the building of a number of modular properties in the city, demand to rehouse families is still exceeding supply. Council were told that those to be housed in the Copthorne were mostly working families and they would have little. if any, impact on local services as they would remain with their existing schools and surgeries. It is not yet known what will happen at the end of the initial six month period.

WRAC:

There is no news on this front as the committee has been having a summer break with the next meeting planned for October.

Community Centre:

Work continues on refurbishment of the main building and the outside storage sheds.

Vale of Glamorgan Boundary Commission Review:

This has been discussed extensively in Council and is the subject of a separate article in What’s On.

Allotments:

A small number of plots are being vacated and if anyone is interested in joining our band of gardeners, they should contact the Council Clerk for further information.

Highways:

We understand that the proposals to reduce the speed limit on Port Rd alongside Wenvoe from 50 mph to 40 mph will take effect at the end of September

 

Council News – October 2023

Council News – October 2023

Police Matters: The current statistics cover the last two months and have been divided to show Wenvoe and Culverhouse Cross separately. In this period there have been eight incidents in Wenvoe involving 3 ASBs and a variety of criminal damage, aggressive and suspicious males and vehicles, and thefts from vehicles. At Culverhouse Cross there have been 32 incidents of which 24 were thefts. The remainder involve aggressive males and dogs, arson and ASBs.

Planning Updates: Land at Chapel Terrace To amend the planning permission for a barn which was constructed in contravention of the originally approved design. Approved

Copthorne Hotel: Two officials from Cardiff City Council attended the Council meeting to explain what is happening at the hotel. Cardiff Council have now signed an agreement to hire the hotel for six months in order to alleviate a severe housing shortage in the city. They already have four hotels on hire in Cardiff but have been unable to acquire any others and have been forced to look outside the city. Despite the building of a number of modular properties in the city, demand to rehouse families is still exceeding supply. Council were told that those to be housed in the Copthorne were mostly working families and they would have little. if any, impact on local services as they would remain with their existing schools and surgeries. It is not yet known what will happen at the end of the initial six month period.

WRAC: There is no news on this front as the committee has been having a summer break with the next meeting planned for October.

Community Centre: Work continues on refurbishment of the main building and the outside storage sheds.

Vale of Glamorgan Boundary Commission Review: This has been discussed extensively in Council and is the subject of a separate article in What’s On.

Allotments: A small number of plots are being vacated and if anyone is interested in joining our band of gardeners, they should contact the Council Clerk for further information.

Highways: We understand that the proposals to reduce the speed limit on Port Rd alongside Wenvoe from 50 mph to 40 mph will take effect at the end of September.

Community Council News

 

Wenvoe Rural Affairs Committee

A request is being made to have St Lythans Rd resurfaced and for the speed limit on the road to be reduced to 30mph due to its narrow width and frequent bends.

Progress over the Great Glamorgan Way will recommence once the budget is released There have been some instances of vandalism with locks being glued.

The new outdoor gym in the playing fields is virtually completed and will be available for use in the coming weeks.

The Council have suffered from vandalism recently with the main gate to the allotments being seriously damaged with the main struts being cut with an angle grinder. A replacement gate needs to be purchased.

 

Planning Updates November 2023

Planning Updates November 2023

•Greenacres. Morfa Lane. Ground and first floor extension to existing detached garage. Rejected. The Vale considered that the resulting building would be disproportionate in scale to the existing dwelling resulting in an unacceptable impact on the countryside

•Teleview Kennels St Lythans. Conversion of single storey admin and accommodation building into a two-storey dwelling and demolition of existing kennel block. Rejected. Among the reasons given was that ‘by virtue of its isolated position was outside of any defined settlement, the site is considered to be in an unsustainable and unsuitable location where the new converted dwelling would be remote from day to day amenities/services.’

•7 Orchard Close. Roof conversion to form additional bedrooms. Approved

 

Community Council News – Fly tipping

 

Fly tipping

This has been a continuing nuisance in the area for a long time. It is therefore nice to be able to report on some success in the battle. A large amount of rubbish was recently dumped at the Quarrymen’s Memorial at Twyn-y-rodyn. Community Councillors searched through the rubbish and discovered a name and address. This person was approached and while claiming that they had paid to have the rubbish removed from their property quickly came to Twyn-y-rodyn and took it away. Well done Cllrs Gaughan Jervis and Thomas.

 

 

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