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Llanvair Discoed
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Results of the Village Meeting
My rough notes (Andrew Miller) on the meeting (Please let me know any any mistakes or additions):
Standing room only in the room in the upstairs of the pub. Phil Murphy had to get more chairs from the store. In the end we had people sitting down the stairs and lots standing at the back.
General feeling was that the boundary changes and the development proposals were plain stupid. Not thought out, full of errors and we should not have been classed as a main village. We were classed as a main village due to some arbitrary decision – not criteria was given by George Ashworth – he didn’t have any to base the decision on.
GA told the meeting that PV14 and PV15 have been dropped for inclusion leaving only PV16 to discuss.
George was asked several times about the errors in the documents, to which he acknowledged. He would not however apologise for the the errors he and his team mad, despite being pushed. No one asked out right for an apology. I intend to write separately to the head of MCC and make a formal complaint about GA and his department ref the errors and giving the council wrong information on which to make decisions.
Alun Morgan was livid at not being told about the changes to the use of his land – got a round of applause as he sat down. No real apology from GA on that.
Phil Murphy is against the plans and publicly stated that. PM also apologised for not doing enough communication about the event – apparently the ‘Ladies List’ isn’t good enough so we will have a full village list in a few days. If you havn't given your details please get in touch with Andrew Miller or Dagmar Vosloo!
The minutes would be available for scrutiny after Dave Phillips remarked the council often wrote the minutes of meetings before the meeting had taken place!
A question was asked about how many other villagers were being asked to increase housing by 14% - no answer given.
No real answer as to what is an ‘affordable house’, though it would costs about £1500 +/- per year to empty the cesspit as well as running costs for at least 2 cars per household, as well as oil for heating etc.
GA told us that cesspits have to be 7m away from dwellings. I am sure it should be 15m and possibly as far as 25m?
Ray made the point about the Environment Agency not agreeing with the plans etc. Again GA didnt seem to take this onboard
Mark Wilson made the point about all the sites flooding. Doug Lloyd informed the room that there is a sink hole in PV15
Phil Terry corrected GA on the distance to the local schools and informed him that they were in any case full.
Brian Lewis commented that the council would give themselves planning permission (and hence profiteering) yet refuse planning to other people wishing to exactly the same thing.
PM asked went round the room to make points against the plans and the ones you mentioned all came out.
All in all everyone in the room (including Emilia the baby who was vocal at times - good to hear the young 'uns getting involved!) was dead set against the boundary changes and the development plans.
The final decision will be made by an in the Autumn by an Assembly Inspector.
Makse sure you write in and complain:
George Ashworth
Head of Planning
Monmounthshire County Council
NP44 2XH
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News
on rubbish collection here.
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Llanvair Discoed (Welsh: Llanfair Is Coed) is a small
village in Monmouthshire,
south-east Wales, between Chepstow and Newport.
The village is mentioned in the Domesday
Book of 1086 as 'Lamecare'. The name
means Mary's (Mair > Fair)
church (llan) under (is) the wood (coed). The
'd' at the start of Discoed only appears in more recent versions of
the name. The correct Welsh language name is Llanfair Is Coed or
Llanfair-iscoed. The wood refers to Wentwood, which at the time
of the Kingdom of
Gwent separated the cantref of Gwent Is Coed ("this side of the
wood", as envisaged from Caerwent), from that of Gwent Uwch Coed
("beyond the wood").
The village contains a small ruined castle, believed to have been built by the FitzPayn
family, as lords of Llanvair Discoed, in the 13th century. The ruins
of the castle are now situated within the boundaries of a private
property. The last resident of the castle was a member of the Kemeys family who died
defending Chepstow Castle. The Kemeys family owned and managed a lot of
the land around the area, explaining why so many places have 'Kemeys' in
the name. If you would like to know more about Llanvair
Castle and other Welsh castles click here.
Llanvair Discoed is a popular village and most residents
have lived here for many years. The centre of
village life is St Mary's Church
and The Woodlands
Tavern.
Immediately to the north of the village is Gray
Hill
with its standing stones
and medieval village. From the 900ft (273m) summit there are
wonderful views of the Severn Estuary, Wentwood Reservoir and
the surrounding countryside.
Thank you
to Gwyn Lewis, a former resident of the village for much of the
information listed on the History
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