DINAS Powys councillors Andy Robertson and Vince Driscoll recently met with representatives of Barratts Homes and Vale Council planning and highways officers at the site of the former St Cyres school.

The group met on the site where Barratts are to develop 215 new homes to look at any other possible access and exit points from the site as an alternative to the controversial use of Murch Crescent and Murch Road over the rail bridge to join the A4055 Cardiff to Barry Road.

The group walked the area to debate any possible alternatives which the developers and council officials will now investigate further.

Cllr Robertson said that most people were not against the houses being built if they could have waited until a Dinas Powys by-pass was discussed further.

He said: “We were left in an impossible position where the previous administration had accepted Barratt’s tender subject to Planning Permission. This meant that if planning had been refused we were advised the developer could quite rightly have appealed the decision with the Welsh Government.

“Almost certainly it would have been overturned. That would mean Vale Council Tax Payers would have been left with a huge legal bill with the development proceeding anyway”