Progress on the Village Plan for Radyr & Morganstown
As reported on this website and in the last two issues of the Radyr Chain, I said that the Community Council, in partnership with the Radyr & Morganstown Association and our County Councillor, was starting to prepare a Village Plan for Radyr and Morganstown.
Since I last wrote there has been quite a bit of progress. We have now started work on three projects, two of them in conjunction with M.Sc. students from Cardiff University.
The first project is to look at the shape and content of our final plan. The aim is to:
review plans prepared by similar sized communities in England and Wales review best practice in producing these plans advise on what a final document for Radyr and Morganstown could look like suggest the scope of the Plan advise on how to implement the plan advise on how far into the future the plan should look
A second project is to provide an overview of the whole Radyr and Morganstown geographical area as defined by the boundaries of the R&M Community Council (shown on the R&M map that you may have and is on display in the Post Office and Library). It will set out the potential for future development (including housing and light industry) within the context of creating a long-term sustainable community. Specifically, we will be reviewing:
The practical limits to further housing (bearing in mind, e.g., needs such as schooling, leisure, shopping, and increases to transport requirements) The potential for establishing suitable jobs within the locality, so as to minimise traffic generation. A potential future vision for the R&M Community as described in a ‘land use plan’. The Cardiff Local Development Plan is currently being revised. Our project will help us to understand its implications. Whilst our study is specifically aimed at our Communities, account will also be taken of neighbouring areas and the wider Cardiff plan. Our third project is to ask you how you would like to see the area developing in the future. The main aims of this project are: To review the methods of data collection for different groups or sections of the community To decide on appropriate questions. To distribute the questions. To collate and analyse the returned data. To present our findings to you.
All of this work will help all of us plan for the future of Radyr and Morganstown. I will up-date you on progress here on the website and in future editions of the Radyr Chain.
If you have any comments on the plan there is a thread in the soapbox on this site or pass them to the Clerk to the Community Council at the Old Church Rooms. If you wish to help us in producing the plan please contact the Clerk.