I WRITE in response your article on the combined sports club and housing development on the playing fields in Sully which conflicts with the Vale of Glamorgan Council’s own policies detailed below:

Creating an active Wales – getting more people engaged in regular physical activity.

How can taking away 50 per cent of the sports fields and building 200 houses assist in delivering this Vale of Glamorgan/Welsh Government strategy?

Not only the 50 per cent of playing fields allocated to housing disappears but the vast majority of the land remaining will also be lost as the new playing pitches will be enclosed and not available to the villagers to utilise the land as they currently do at the moment.

LDP states that the Local Authority will support the retention of community facilities and services and seeks to ensure that any new development, particularly housing, does not impose undue pressure on schools, community facilities and health facilities.

With currently 350/500 dwellings proposed at Cog and 235 at Cosmeston, a further 200 plus houses is bound to have a significantly adverse effect on the facilities and services within the village.

LDP states that all new developments that have a direct impact on the strategic transportation infrastructure will be required to deliver appropriate improvements to the network.

No improvements are proposed, and the basis used for the analysis is not accurate as it only uses the 350 rather than the full 500 likely to eventually be at Cog and completely ignores the development at Cross Common Lane.

This site was subject to a planning application in 1993, which was refused by the council.

The reasons for its refusal now are exactly the same as they were then, indeed the traffic situation is now significantly worse.

The LDP does not allocate Sully Sports Fields for housing development.

So this site should and must remain as a green wedge, playing fields and coastal belt.

Layla Wilson

Winsford Road

Sully