Cardiff Council LDP : R&MCC response
Update October 26 2012
R&MCC is studying the latest LDP document and preparing a consultation response on behalf of our community. We are also working in partnership with St Fagans and Pentyrch Community Councils since so many of the issues are common to the wider area of NW Cardiff.
In the Village Plan, most residents opposed further development in R&M. Whatever Cardiff Council’s finally approved number of houses and business development across Cardiff, and in the north-west in particular, R&MCC feels that a key issue is whether the plan provides sufficient new infrastructure to match. Just considering the road network, anyone living in R&M will know what the traffic conditions are now, the state of road maintenance and that no significant improvements have been made despite the fact that R&M has grown by over 40% in recent years. You will also know that at either end of R&M lie the bottlenecks of 19th century Llandaff and Ynys Bridge.
R&MCC feels strongly that planning any new development without appropriate infrastructure can only lessen the quality of life for everyone, existing and new, living in the area. The wording of the Preferred Strategy does not give us confidence since few of the infrastructure improvements referred to are funded and/or are unlikely to be built in the life of the LDP.
We have, therefore, commissioned a traffic survey from Traffic Planning Associates, as have St Fagans CC. This will include a study of the existing highway network at peak flow, analysis of the existing routes into Cardiff, M4, A470 and other strategic locations such as Radyr railway station. There will be predictions of additional traffic numbers from the LDP housing allocation and impacts of that allocation including on public transport, the highway network and railway station car parking.
The resulting study will be used by R&MCC to inform its consultation response and provide hard professional evidence for our arguments. It will be published on the website.
We welcome your comments on the LDP which can be made by email, letter and via the Soapbox. A full version is available here. We will be at Cardiff Council’s public LDP event at Radyr Library on Monday November 19 where you can examine documents, ask questions of Cardiff officers and give your views to R&MCC. The Library event will run from noon to 6pm. You can also sign up to attend an R&MCC meeting on November 26 to make final comments.
The council’s LDP subcommittee is collecting information and will draft the response for presentation to the full R&MCC meeting on November 22. Members will also attend the various consultation events held by Cardiff that have been listed in the Capital Times and are listed on the R&M website notice board and R&MCC LDP page.
Helena Fox
Clerk