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PANTMAWR ACTION GROUP NEWS UPDATE – 1ST MARCH 2008

You will be aware from latest the circular from Councillors Jayne Cowan and Adrian Robson that amended plans for the Pantmawr Inn site have been submitted to the Council in an attempt to make them more acceptable. This was obviously the reason this Planning Application was not on the agenda for Planning Committee meeting of 19th February. Although the amendments were submitted to the Council on 18th February the Planning Officers decided they were too minor to warrant a further consultation so we only heard a week later!! The letter to Planning Department accompanying the amended plans says: Following receipt of your positive comments in the meeting (to discuss draft revised proposals) the revised scheme has been finalised………

Also according to this letter one of the principle amendments is:
“Scale and Massing – The height of the development has been reduced to an average height of 21/2 storey throughout with the exception of a small part of the apartment building which is 3-storey which is in any event centrally located.” Basically the roof height over most of the apartment block has been lowered by up to a metre by flattening the roof slope and bringing the gutter line down to the base of dormer windows from part way up thereby allowing them to try to claim that most of the flats are now only 21/2 storeys instead of 3 storeys. Other principle amendments relate to the landscaping of the main courtyard and the submission of a landscaping scheme which give no cause for serious general concern though may be of interest to those around the boundary of the site. Anyone wishing to see the plans as paper copies should contact Hugh Payne on 029 20628484. See also our website www.savepantmawr.org.

It might be possible to force a short consultation over the amendments but the application is in any case likely to come before the Planning Committee at their meeting on 19th March. So we would urge all those who have written in/e-mailed with objections previously, and consider the amended proposals are still too massive and out of scale with the existing development, to put in a another short note as soon as possible to say so. You should say the other objections in your previous letter/e-mail still stand. We would still hope that the Committee decide at their meeting to make a site visit, which will probably take place on 31st March as the previous Monday is a Public Holiday. The next Planning Committee meeting is then on 16th April. So please keep these dates free if you are willing to make your presence felt to the Planning Committee.

THANKS FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT :)