MAC 023

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 5960

Derbyniwyd: 23/06/2026

Respondent ID: 2558

Ymatebydd: The Home Builders Federation

Cadarn? Ydi

HBF objects to the removal of the reference to a variation if there are impacts upon a proposal’s financial viability. By removing this wording, you are removing the clear statement that the requirement for afordable home sis flexible and can be negotiated where a reason based on viability can be shown.

Not all potential costs have been accounted for in the high-level viability, which sets the affordable requirement percentages; an example of this would be the impact of the current Nitrates position in the County. Note the reference in MAC033 INF1: Planning Obligations

Noted. Reference is made to the new paragraph set out within AHOM1 (MAC023) which makes provision for the affordable housing target percentage within the policy to be a target to be used as a starting point for affordable housing negotiations. Further clarity will be provided out within the Affordable Housing Supplementary Planning Guidance.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 5998

Derbyniwyd: 02/07/2026

Respondent ID: 3410

Ymatebydd: Persimmon Homes West Wales

Cadarn? Heb nodi

AHOM1: Provision of Affordable Homes
Object to the removal of the reference to variation if there are impacts upon a proposal’s financial viability. This objection is to ensure that schemes can remain deliverable if unforeseen circumstances arise which were not accounted for in the LDP Viability studies. An example of this would be the impact of the current Nitrates position in the County. Note the reference in MAC033 INF1: Planning Obligations

Noted. Reference is made to the new paragraph set out within AHOM1 (MAC023) which makes provision for the affordable housing target percentage within the policy to be a target to be used as a starting point for affordable housing negotiations. Further clarity will be provided out within the Affordable Housing Supplementary Planning Guidance.

Gwrthwynebu

ID sylw: 6077

Derbyniwyd: 25/06/2026

Respondent ID: 5251

Ymatebydd: Dyfodol i'r Iaith Cyf

Cadarn? Heb nodi

Credwn fod y canrannau presennol uchod yn annigonol ac yn methu â chyfrannu at leddfu yr argyfwng tai sy’n bodoli yn y sir ac yn genedlaethol. Rydym yn argymell canran o 50% fel isafswm.

Datblygiadau tai ar lefel fasnachol i ddatblygwyr yw’r rhelyw a fydd ar werth ar y farchnad agored ac yn denu mwy o brynwyr ariannog sydd ar gyfraddau cyflog y tu hwnt i fwyafrif trigolion y sir.

Mewnlifiad o bobl di-Gymraeg fydd y rhelyw, yn ôl patrymau symudedd I’r sir. Bydd hyn yn cyfrannu at ddirywiad pellach y Gymraeg yn y sir sydd eisoes wedi gostwng i 39% lle roedd dros 50% ugain mlynedd ynghynt. Rhaid wrth fesurau mwy cadarn i atal dirywiad pellach, ceisio sefydlogi os nad atgyfodi’r canran o siaradwyr Cymraeg yn y sir yn unol a Cymraeg 2050. Meddai gwefan Atlas yr iaith Gymraeg wrth drafod cyfrifiad 2021 yn Sir Gaerfyrddin:

“Collwyd 5,200 o siaradwyr Cymraeg yn y sir rhwng 2011 a 2021, ar ôl colled debyg o 5,800 rhwng 2001 a 2011, sy’n golygu lleihad o 11,000 mewn 20 mlynedd.

Mae pob grwp oedran, ac eithrio pobl ifanc rhwng 25 a 34 yn dangos lleihad, gyda’r colledion mwyaf i’w gweld ymysg pobl rhwng 35 a 64 oed. Ymysg y grwpiau oedran hyn mae’r canrannau lleiaf yn y sir bellach, gydag ond tua thraean ohonynt yn gallu siarad Cymraeg. Mae’r gyfran sy’n gallu’r iaith yn codi ymysg y to hŷn, i 36.0 y cant o bobl rhwng 65 a 74 oed a 45.0 y cant ymhlith pobl dros 75.”

We believe that the current percentages above are insufficient and fail to contribute to alleviating the housing crisis that exists in the county and nationally. We recommend a percentage of 50% as a minimum.

Housing developments on a commercial level for developers are the remainder that will be for sale on the open market and attract more wealthy buyers who are at wage rates that are beyond the majority of the county's residents.

An influx of non-Welsh speakers will be the remainder, according to the patterns of moving to the county. This will contribute to a further decline in the Welsh language in the county which has already fallen to 39% where it was over 50% twenty years earlier. More robust measures must be in place to prevent further decline and seek to stabilise and revive the percentage of Welsh speakers in the county in line with Cymraeg 2050. When discussing the 2021 census in Carmarthenshire, the website Atlas y Gymraeg said:

"5,200 Welsh speakers were lost in the county between 2011 and 2021, after a similar loss of 5,800 between 2001 and 2011, which represents a reduction of 11,000 in 20 years.
All age groups, with the exception of young people aged 25 to 34 are showing a reduction, with the biggest losses being seen among those aged 35 to 64. These age groups now have the smallest percentages in the county, with only about a third of them able to speak Welsh. The proportion of people who are able to speak the language is rising among the elderly, to 36.0 per cent of people aged 65 to 74 and 45.0 per cent among those over 75."

Mae'r canrannau presennol ym mholisi AHOM1 wedi ei seilio ar dystiolaeth gadarn.

The current percentages in Policy AHOM1 are based on robust evidence.