HUNDREDS of petitioners are calling for a new health centre to be built in Llantwit Major in the Vale of Glamorgan. More than 800 local people are urging the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board (UHB) to build a health centre on Eagleswell Road, where a former primary school closed in 2015. The disused plot of land is currently owned by Vale of Glamorgan council, and is allocated for 72 potential houses in the local development plan. But campaigners want the council to allow the health board to build a new health centre there, complaining the town’s current surgeries aren’t up to scratch.
Hundreds petition for new health centre to be built in Llantwit Major
The town in the western Vale of Glamorgan is rapidly growing but some say local services aren t keeping up
13:56, 17 MAY 2021
Eagleswell School, now closed, in Llantwit Major, where campaigners want the health centre to be built (Image: Google)
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The plans are split across two parts: a western site of 7.9 hectares with 140 homes, adjacent to the B4265; and an eastern site of 4.3 hectares with 100 homes, north of Bethesda’r Fro Church. About 35 per cent of the planned homes will be affordable. Both sites would be accessed off of the Northern Access Road, also known as Fford Bro Tathan. This new road was built in 2018 and 2019, running from the B4265 north of Boverton to the St Athan enterprise zone and Aston Martin factory. Planning officers responded to Cllr John’s concerns by pointing to the newly built road, as an example of new traffic infrastructure in the area; and saying new residents of the proposed homes could help local shops by bringing them extra trade.
PLANS have been approved for 240 homes in the countryside near Llantwit Major, despite concerns about creaking infrastructure and noise pollution. The Welsh Government applied for planning permission to build the homes on two sites of farmland to the east of the town, just south of the newly built Northern Access Road. Vale of Glamorgan council’s planning committee narrowly voted to approve the plans on March 24, after hearing from locals about the potential impacts on already stretched public services in Llantwit Major, and a noisy firing range very close to the planned houses. A map showing site B Picture: WYG Free to use for all LDRS partners