{"id":36530,"date":"2018-12-13T21:25:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T21:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=36530"},"modified":"2018-12-13T21:25:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T21:25:17","slug":"grangetown-residents-continue-development-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/politics-social-justice\/grangetown-residents-continue-development-battle","title":{"rendered":"Grangetown residents continue development battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Pentre Gardens residents submitted new evidence to Cardiff Council yesterday, protesting the Bottle Works Wharf\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bottleworkswharfcardiff.com\/\">development<\/a>. How could it help their case?<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36531\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36531\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36531\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/12\/newswk11_2-625x351.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36531\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/12\/newswk11_2-625x351.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" \/><\/noscript> View from Taff Embankment towards the city centre and its developments (Credit: Steve Garrington)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/uncategorized\/grangetown-residents-fight-david-versus-goliath-struggle-major-development-firm\">Grangetown residents embroiled in a battle<\/a> over a proposed new apartment complex have submitted an independent study to Cardiff Council as evidence in their case.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published yesterday, was conducted by planning consultants BRE for the Pentre Gardens group. It is an evaluation of original findings published by developers Rightacres in October.<\/p>\n<p>The conclusions of yesterday&#8217;s study have the residents more convinced than ever that Rightacres&#8217; original reports on daylight and height did not reveal the whole picture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt proves what we\u2019ve been saying about it all along,\u201d says Pentre Gardens resident, Judy Davies, speaking today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe get our sunlight at 6:45 in the morning, but the daylight studies cut out the hours we have the sun.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pentre Gardens residents are urging people to add their Bottleworks planning objections to more than 50 already there as deadline looms. Link to planning portal <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rDUDTAUV8Q\">https:\/\/t.co\/rDUDTAUV8Q<\/a> and  ref is 18\/02622\/MJR <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OF56aXZanG\">https:\/\/t.co\/OF56aXZanG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BDhfsqm7mH\">pic.twitter.com\/BDhfsqm7mH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Grangetown community (@grangecardiff) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/grangecardiff\/status\/1072956524161630223?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 12, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Residents, who have been busy over the last couple of months collecting formal complaints to submit to Cardiff Council, now feel they have sufficient a reason for a second official report into daylight and height concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The current plans for the Rightacres development, named Bottle Works Wharf, are for a five or six storey apartment complex on the site of the Taff Embankment\u2019s current Track 2000 building.<\/p>\n<p>Residents have already expressed their worry that the area will be absorbed by city centre development, and that Bottle Works Wharf will pave the way for further high-rise buildings across Grangetown.<\/p>\n<p>Talking about these developments, Simon Newman, another Pentre Gardens resident, said, \u201cWood Street, which once was a sunny street, is just dark and cold now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Judy Davies adds, \u201cThere\u2019s just no light. I feel depressed every time I walk down it. This is going to be my house!\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36532\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36532\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36532\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/12\/newswk11-625x351.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36532\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36532\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/12\/newswk11-625x351.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" \/><\/noscript> Rightacres&#8217; Central Square development, home to BBC Wales, Cardiff School of Journalism, and Rightacres itself (Credit: Huw Llewelyn)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Residents were able to take professional advice from planning consultants BRE with the help of funding previously set aside by Rightacres for this exact purpose.<\/p>\n<p>All of this comes after a tense week for the residents as the web page set up to receive complaints temporarily crashed for several days, prompting calls for the planning deadline to be extended.<\/p>\n<p>As it stands the official deadline for objections is still today, 13 December. However, the Council\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/planningonline.cardiff.gov.uk\/online-applications\/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=makeComment&amp;keyVal=_CARDIFF_DCAPR_125642&amp;fbclid=IwAR2stED-iJlefMYI-KjbPAyFYdtB8GC6l-0yWcdaHvAX-ATLk_BFuwQgIrA\">portal<\/a> will stay live until the application goes to planning in January, so residents are urging people to continue submitting complaints.<\/p>\n<p><em>You can keep up to date with the Pentre Gardens residents and their campaign on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pentregardens17?lang=en\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How are residents of Pentre Gardens fighting an invasive development on their doorstep?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":474,"featured_media":36531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16],"tags":[],"coauthors":[715],"class_list":["post-36530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-social-justice","category-science-environment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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