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Safleoedd Ymgeisio a Gyflwynwyd / Candidate Site Submissions
Representation ID: 618
Received: 04/02/2019
Respondent: Mrs Jessica Booth
The proposed development is on a floodplain Zone 3 (a functional floodplain). With changing climate and more extremes of weather this site is not an environmentally nor economically-sustainable location for dwellings. Thinking of future generations, new housing developments need to be on higher ground, not high risk ones such as this. Moreover, the development would also worsen drainage problems for the existing properties along the main road as the development would displace water, increasing the flood risk to these established properties (as observed elsewhere in Porthyrhyd), making getting house insurance prohibitively expensive or not possible for existing homeowners.