No change to the Plan.

Land off Cwmamman Road, Glanamman, Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, SA182AF

Grid Reference 266436 213116

I wish to support the omission of this site from the 2nd Deposit Revised Carmarthenshire Local Development Plan 2018-2033 – Proposals Plan and the deletion of the current PolicyT3/8/h1.

This land is currently allocated in the Carmarthenshire Local Development Plan 2006-2021 for residential development (Policy T3/8/h1).

This allocation followed an appeal decision in May 2011 despite the refusal by Carmarthenshire County Council in October 2010 to grant planning permission for residential development.

Since the grant of planning consent, some 12 years ago, the developer has failed to develop the site for housing probably because the appeal decision made it clear that before development could commence a full intrusive mining legacy site survey should be carried out and details of any required remediation works and building measures submitted and approved in writing by the local planning authority, including an implementation timetable.

In all, the developer was required to comply with 13 conditions the most important of which was that the development should commence before May 2016. To our knowledge the developer has not sought approval to meet any of the conditions and instead has simply land banked the site which is against government policy.