Cardiff Council‘s planning committee has recommended that planning permission be granted for a proposed sewage station in Cardiff.
Agenda papers released ahead of the committee’s next meeting reveal that the committee has thrown its support behind Welsh Water‘s plans to construct a sewage station on two parcels of land within the areas of Llandaff North and Llandaff on either side of the River Taff.
The planning application was deferred on 6 April 2022 for a members’ site visit in June 2022. The council has now decided to recommend planning permission.
Although the project would introduce newly built development into the existing park area, the council concluded that the pumping station “would not exacerbate a deficiency of (functional) open space. It would have no unacceptable impacts that cannot be mitigated to an acceptable degree”.
Council encourages sewage station
The papers continue: “Moreover, notwithstanding the acceptability of the development, it also amounts to essential infrastructure proposed by a statutory undertaker. It has been afforded significant weight given that it will serve the local and wider community. It helps sustain Cardiff as an important settlement and achieve the required level of growth.”
The development is required to reinforce the sewerage system infrastructure serving the existing and wider area. It follows a significant population increase from a major residential development in Radyr. That development will include approximately 6,000 new dwellings.
A petition and letters of concern have, however, been submitted by members of the public and local MPs
Reasons for objection include loss of green public open space and impact on ecology and biodiversity. There were also discussions of the effect of flooding and disruption from construction works. Others talked about the impact on the highway network. Some also looked at the failure of the application to acknowledge the Afon Taff Viaduct Grade II-listed structure.
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