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We’ve now closed the petition in preparation to sending it to Cardiff Council to be included among the objections. I’m delighted to report that we had a combined total of 1,056 signatures, with 875 signing the online petition and 181 signatures on paper copies of the petition. Many thanks to all our supporters who have signed. There is still time to send in an individual objection. Please do so if you haven’t yet. Details of how to do this by post, email or online can be found here.

If ever we needed a reminder of the value of an open space near our homes where we can take a walk, breathe fresh air and be safe, it is now. Keep safe and take care.

Many thanks to everyone who has helped to distribute leaflets, and to those who have submitted objections. There are now over 130 individual objections on the Council’s portal, including ones from Kevin Brennan MP, Mark Drakeford AM, Cllr. Rod McKerlish, Cardiff Civic Society, The Llandaff Society, Ramblers Cymri Cardiff Group, Radyr and Morganstown Community Council, Danescourt Community Association and many, many local residents. The petition now stands at over 850 signatures. There is still time to submit your objection or sign the petition if you haven’t yet done so. Click here for details of how to submit your objection, and here to sign the online petition. Or head over to Danescourt Post Office if you’d prefer to sign it on paper. The deadline has been extended to mid-March, so keep the objections flowing in.

There are already over 40 objections published on the planning portal in the comments and documents tabs, no doubt with more in the pipeline. Among them is a strong objection from Cardiff Civic Society. We thank them for their support, and encourage everyone to submit an individual objection. See here for details of how to do this. The deadline has been extended to 19th March, twenty one days following the publication of the public notice announcing the planning application in the Western Mail.

Mark Drakeford AM and Kevin Brennan MP have submitted a strong objection to the proposed development to Cardiff Council. Click here to open a copy of their letter.

We have until the 4th March to submit our objections to the Council. Whilst we believe this deadline will be extended, we’re asking everyone who doesn’t want this development to go ahead to send in their own objection, before this date if possible. You can submit an objection by email, post or on the council’s planning portal. Click here for details of how to do this, and for more guidance see this page and its associated links. We will continue to update these pages with more details in the coming days so if you have suggestions, please let us know, or add your comments to these pages.

Many thanks to the Radyr and Morganstown Community Council for adding their loud voice to those objecting to the proposed development of 45 dwellings on wooded and open land with access from De Braose Close.

Please take part in their online survey so that your views are represented to them. You can find it here: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/6NR0Y/

Revised plans to build 45 dwellings, all catering for social housing, on land accessed from De Braose Close have now been published, and can be viewed and downloaded here. Whilst it is proposed to keep a small part of the woods, the plans still involve traffic from 182 residents through the length of De Braose Close with the access road cutting through the wood. If you wish to oppose this proposal, please send a simple objection to the planning consultant, pip [at] pipcole [dot] co [dot] uk, with a copy to info [at] taffhousing [dot] co [dot] uk. We suggest you only give a brief explanation of your objection, as there will be further opportunity to make representations directly to Cardiff Council once a planning application has been submitted.

We understand from Cllr. Philippa John-Hill that the developers have been working with council officers on a set of revised plans. Philippa has been invited to review the proposals and as soon as we have more details we will share them on this site.

If any plans to develop houses on the land, which is designated in the Local Development Plan as protected River Corridor, are formally submitted, we will provide guidance on how to voice your opposition, including signing a petition and submitted individual objections.

Watch this space!

This update is something of a non-update.  The developers have still not followed up their pre-application ‘consultation’ with a formal planning application.  Cllr Philippa Hill-John has confirmed that no planning application relating to the land at De Braose Close will be considered before 2019.  We await events next year, and in the meantime would like to thank all those who have supported the effort to ‘save our woods’ in 2018, and wish you a merry Christmas and a happy and peaceful 2019!

Cllr. Philippa Hill-John has printed a further leaflet for distribution across Danescourt.  We have 1500 leaflets that we want to deliver on Wednesday evening.  If you can spare some time, please come to St. John’s Church Hall in Danescourt (Rachel Close) at 6.30pm on Wednesday, 29th August where we will divide into teams to split the work between us.

Thank you.