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October Planning Updates
The following applications have been granted planning permission
Planning Applications
Having examined the plans the council raised no objections to any of the following applications
• 3, Whitehall Close, – Single storey rear extension with raised terrace (as existing) conversion of garage to habitable room
• 23, Rectory Close, First floor extension
• Field House, 8, Old Port Road, Single storey extension to front of property, roof reconfiguration and erection of pergolas, log store to garden room/gym
• 73, Heol Collen, A side and rear single storey extension providing an enlarged kitchen area and lounge
NEW WASTE COLLECTION
The new waste collection arrangements start the week commencing 14th October for the Wenvoe area. You should have received your grey bin containing an additional orange and white bag for recycling. The Vale will be using a new vehicle to collect all the recycling in one journey and a separate vehicle for collecting the black bags and green waste. Following the last collection of the old scheme on Tuesday 8th October, householders will need to separate recyclable items into the new containers ready for our new Friday collection day on 18th October.
The collection team are being trained to place your emptied recycling bags back in the grey bin to prevent them being scattered around the street. In the near future there should be a new bag available for those who have very little recycling ie single homeowners, etc. This will be a four-quadrant bag with internal divisions for the separate sorted recycling material.
White bag (PAPER) – newspapers, magazines, envelopes. NOT wallpaper, wrapping paper, tissues, paper towels, kitchen roll, shredded paper, brown paper; these items should be placed in your black bag.
Orange bag (CARDBOARD) – cardboard boxes, egg boxes, toilet roll tubes, cereal boxes, toothpaste boxes and other similar empty boxes. NOT Tetra Paks these are placed in the blue bag
Blue bag (PLASTICS & CANS) – shampoo/conditioner bottles, milk bottles, drinks cans, drinks bottles, Tetra Paks, food tins e.g. soup tins, empty aerosols, foil, foil cartons, cleaning product bottles. NOT crisp packets, food pouches e.g. for pet food, biscuit packets, carrier bags, , black or , brown plastic, film e.g. cling film or ready meal lids, hard plastics e.g. toys, gas cannisters, lighters, these are placed in your black bag.
Grey caddy (GLASS) – glass jars, glass bottles. NOT ceramics or china, drinking glasses, glass panes, light bulbs, Pyrex, broken glass.
Green bag and food caddie material is unchanged.
Black bags – all non recyclable material. Limit still 2 bags per household.
If you are in doubt about whether an item is recyclable or not, the Vale web site has an A to Z list of items which is regularly updated. For anybody without access to the internet computer facilities are available at the Wenvoe Community Library.
Why did the Vale ban the use of single use bags for recycling material a few months ago and insist only blue bags were acceptable? Usually less than 10% of waste lorry loads were rejected by the company dealing with the commingled waste material due to contamination by inappropriate material. This rose to 34% rejection earlier in the year and 56% in July due to persons including food
waste, nappies, etc hidden within plastic bags, hence the swift action.
Dropping litter is a criminal offence and offenders can be issued with an immediate fine. It is now an offence to dispose of household waste in or around a litter bin and subject to a £300 fine.
What happens to the waste material?
The black bags are now incinerated at a new energy recovery facility near Rover Way which is capable of supplying energy for nearly 40,000 homes. The food waste goes to an anaerobic digester plant where the methane produced is sufficient to supply energy for 4,000 homes. The green waste still goes to the plant at Cowbridge for composting. The Vale will be reopening the depot near Jenner Park to allow householders to collect the composted material for their gardens and allotments. Dry recycling (cans, plastics, paper, card and glass) is sent to UK reprocessing facilities, where available, rather than having to send the material to markets abroad for recycling.
The EU and Welsh Government regulations require all local authorities to meet new recycling targets of 64% by 2919/20 and 70% by 2024/25. The Vale at present time is recycling 67%. Failure to meet targets can involve the local authority being subject to huge fines.
There will be a local road show on the new waste disposal scheme on Thursday 3rd October in the Wenvoe Arms car park between 10.00am and 12 noon. There are other location and times for the show around the Vale if you are unable to attend the Wenvoe show—see Vale web site.
The Older People’s Commissioner
for Wales launches
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Here at the Commissioner’s office, we celebrate the fact that we are living longer, healthier lives and we understand the importance of adding life to years, not just years to life.
Hearing from older people about the things that matter to them most is vital in helping to guide and shape our work and we want to use Facebook as a platform to have an open and honest conversation with older people and stakeholders throughout Wales.
We want to hear from older people about what is working well, and what needs to be improved. We want older people to share their opinions about what it’s like growing older in Wales today and hear their ideas on the best ways to deliver change because by working together, we can help to make Wales the best place in the world to grow older.
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September Planning Updates
Planning Updates
The following applications have been approved:
The Council were given a presentation on waste collection and recycling in the Vale. See separate article on page 17.
The Vale report that the previously used polling locations at Twyn-yr-Odyn and Brooklands Terrace are no longer available. It has been suggested that all Wenvoe Community residents use the Community Centre in future to cast their votes in an election. The Council considered a voting point should still be available close to Culverhouse Cross and have suggested the parking area in Brooklands Terrace as a possible location for a mobile station.
The library project has obtained some additional funding and the preferred contractor has been asked to review the quotation with minor alterations to the original design. If the final design and costings are acceptable and the available funds sufficient, it
would be anticipated that construction could commence early next year.
The Grange Park new play equipment cannot commence until the new soak away receives permission and is constructed. The equipment installation is not expected to commence before December. The start of the installation of play equipment at Twyn-yr-Odyn is expected shortly.
Numerous health and safety updates have been installed at the |Community Centre. A quotation for new emergency lighting was agreed.
Members reported the poor bus service lately, it is thought to be connected with a shortage of drivers but further inquires are being pursued. Reports of dangerous driving incidents at the new lights at Brooklands Terrace/Port Road/Old Port Road have been witnessed, this will be reported to the highways department.
The stile on footpath 20 which runs from Port Road, (near the garage) to Burdonshill where it crosses the drive to the Garden Centre has been removed and a fence installed. The footpath officer will be informed
Planning
The council raised no concerns over the following applications
There was no Council meeting in August.
Planning updates.
The following applications have been approved.