NEARLY 30 flats could be built in a village in the south of Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT).
The plan recently submitted by Delyn Properties to the council is for 27 apartments on land at Moy Road in Taffs Well.
There are 15 one-bedroom apartments and 12 two-bedroom apartments proposed across the site in four blocks.
The plan includes 44 parking spaces on site which is one parking space per one-bed apartment, two spaces per two-bed apartment, and five visitor parking spaces.
A design and access statement submitted with the application says trees on the boundary of the site would be retained and enhanced to ensure the screening of the site to and from the existing residential and industrial estate in a bid to enhance the landscaped setting, the green aesthetic appearance of the site, and the biodiversity at site.
Sustainable drainage features have also been included in the application.
A pre-application consultation exercise was carried out for a similar scheme for 24 units on the same site in August and September 2024.
But a planning application wasn’t submitted after this as a result of the findings specifically due to the response of Dwr Cymru Welsh Water which stated the minimum distance needed for the protection zone or easement for the trunk combined sewer that crosses the site.
This meant changes were needed to be made to the scheme to adhere to this and this application is looking to address and be fully in accord with this requirement.
The site is a previously-developed scrub grassland in the centre of Taffs Well.
Houses along Ty Bryncoch back onto the western boundary of the site with Moy Road Industrial Estate to the south and east of the site.
The north boundary of the site is bordered by several houses that for a part of the relatively new housing estate at Maes Ifor.
The site can be accessed from Ty Bryncoch and Moy Road (which connects to Cardiff Road and the A470) or through the pedestrian routes and active travel routes that surround and run along the site.
The design and access statement says the scheme has been carefully designed and positioned to adhere to the “buffer” or “easement” zone needed between the proposed dwellings and the Dwr Cymru Welsh Water sewer pipe while also achieving an “appropriate density of residential development”.
