Cardiff Council is currently consulting on the next Local Development Plan for Cardiff and is inviting residents to feed back by the 15th of April.
The Replacement LDP will help shape Cardiff for the next 15 years to 2036 ensuring the right development happens in the right place at the right time, benefitting communities and the economy and setting out which areas need to be protected.
It’s a lot to take in and can be difficult to understand what it’s all about. Fortunately, a few community organisations have been involved in a project led by Cardiff University and supported by Cardiff Council to come up with creative ways in which to explain the LDP.
Grange Pavilion CIO and Youth Forum collaborated with local filmmakers and animators to create a short, animated film explaining Cardiff’s Local Development Plan in the words of the Grange Pavilion and Youth Forum. The film was created as part of ‘Engaging Communities in Local Development Plans’, a research collaboration with Cardiff University, Cardiff Council and Planning Aid Wales.
The animation can be seen here:
But what does the LDP mean for Splott?
Some of the key Splott-related proposals in the LDP are as follows:
- Protect Splott Road as a retail high street;
- Protect the sites in light purple in the map below as economic development sites (Ocean Way industrial estate)
- Create a temporary site for the Traveller Community on Pengam Green moor (the red box outline on the map below) while the existing site is made fit for purpose and expanded (10 year project)
There are lots of other Council proposals in the LDP, and candidate sites proposed by developers, individuals and Cardiff Civic Society (such as creating an active travel route along a slightly realigned Rover Way). There are also sites which are yet to be finalised (like what will happen to the old Willows School site in Tremorfa when the school moves to the new site on Lewis Road, where the old Splott Market once stood).
To help people understand the plans for Splott, and to help people feedback and be part of the consultation, Splott Community Volunteers, along with local councillor Ed Stubbs and Head of Planning at Cardiff Council, Simon Gilbert, will be hosting a drop in session on Wednesday the 2nd of April from 5pm – 7pm at the back of the STAR Leisure Centre on Splott Road (entry though the gates on Railway Street opposite A1 Tyres).
No booking is needed.
They will have large maps and paper versions of the LDO for anyone struggling to access online.
Find out more about the LDP here or visit the Cardiff Council virtual consultation room, with videos, maps and documents here.