Wales-on-line report that the Labour-Plaid Cymru Welsh Government have ordered Cardiff Council to drastically revise its proposed Local Development Plan (LDP), which sets out how the city should develop in the years to 2021, by planning to allow more house-building on greenfield sites.
As it is currently drafted Cardiff’s LDP seeks to maximise brownfield opportunities by using small sites, change-of-use and unidentified ‘windfall’ sites, to deliver an extra 8,000 homes in the City. However the Welsh Government say that this ‘raises concerns regarding the delivery of affordable housing and infrastructure over the 15-year plan period.’ They say that the plan does not deliver the range and mix of housing to meet the identified needs.
The Government has asked the Council to go back to the drawing board so as to enable more family housing to be built on greenfield sites.
This decision will be an embarrassment to both Labour and Plaid Cymru who have sought to follow a green agenda in their programme for government. However, as soon as they are presented with a Local Development Plan that tries to put these principles into effect they abandon all pretence at green credentials and throw it out.
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