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Adrian Hobson - your Plaid Councillor
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SAVE OUR CEMETERY - OBJECT TO THE INSPECTOR
The deadline for submitting objections to the development of the cemetery is 24 July. We can stop the proposal if you write to;
the Planning Inspector,
Crown Building,
Cathays Park,
Cardiff,
CF10 3NQ.
You must object on planning grounds. Other issues will not be considered. You can object on the basis that the development is an over-intensification of an isolated and tranquil site. It will also destroy the character and amenity of the cemetery for mourners and funeral parties.
You can also explain that once planning permission is granted, the Community Council will be unable to manage the use of the building.
OOPS! COMMUNITY COUNCIL MESS UP THEIR APPEAL
SOS - SAVE OUR CEMETERY
Following the refusal of planning permission to desecrate our cemetery, Taff's Well Community Council appealed to the Welsh Assembly.
The Welsh Assembly Inspector rejected the appeal because it contained a series of totally untrue and possibly libellous allegations made against Plaid Cymru Councillor Adrian Hobson.
The Clerk to the Community Council was told to go away and re-write the appeal. Councillor Adrian Hobson has written to him telling him that if he now removes the offending allegations he will effectively have accepted that they were indeed libellous.
Adrian will also tell the Inspectorate that Taff's Well Community Council should not be allowed to introduce new evidence at this stage. Adrian said "Without the potentially libellous statements, there is no substance left in the Community Council's evidence to the Inspector. It's a really incompetent performance and the Clerk appears to be out of his depth in the appeal process.".
RESIDENTS OPPOSE "DISRESPECTFUL" PLANS BY COMMUNITY COUNCIL
Hundreds of residents have signed a petition objecting to plans by Taffs Well Community Council to turn a derelict building in the middle of Ty Rhiw Cemetery into mixed community use inclding a youth club to be open up to 9pm.
Plaid Councillor, Adrian Hobson, opposed the planning application at the RCT planning committee.The application was rejected.
Councillor Hobson said, "Fixing up the old chapel is one thing - its been disused for over 60 years. However, the uses proposed by Taff's Well Community Council would spoil the quiet enjoyment of the cemetery for those who wish to quietely remember their departed loved ones.
The Community Council have also been collecting cash donations towards their project and some residents who donated have now asked for refunds because they feel they were deceived by earlier descriptions of what was proposed.
You can contact Adrian by phone on 029 2081 3740, by e-mail at adrian@adrianhobson.com or on Facebook.
ADRIAN's DETAILS
Adrian has lived in Taff’s Well and Ty Rhiw for over 25 years and been the County Councillor for Taffs Well & Nantgarw since 1999.
Plaid has now represented Taffs Well & Nantgarw for over 35 years when you consider the service given by past Councillors Ifor Jenkins, Gordon Bunn and Gerald Edwards since 1973.
A past Chairman of Taff’s Well Community Council Adrian has also been a Governor at Ffynnon Taf Primary, Nantgarw Infants and Ysgol Gwaelod y Garth. He is currently Vice Chair of Governors at Taffs Well. He is also a past Chairman of the Ysgol Meithrin which still meets in the Village Hall.
Adrian has extensive professional experience in the public sector and local government having worked for over 36 years for the Welsh Office, Cadw: Welsh Historic Monuments, The Welsh Assembly Government and now The National Assembly for Wales. He has worked in planning, local government finance, the health service, environment and human resources.
He is a professionally qualified public sector procurement manager and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply. He currently works as Procurement and Sustainability Adviser to the National Assembly for Wales in Cardiff Bay, ensuring that the Assembly gets value for money and develops effective environmental management systems.
Adrian’s wife Shan works for the Welsh Assembly Government, Daughter Eleri is a final year student in Aberystwyth University studying International Politics. Son Neirin is a pupil at Ysgol Rhydfelen and plays football for Pentyrch.
A TRACK RECORD OF COMMUNITY SERVICE
Adrian has previously been a qualified professional youth worker with South Glamorgan County Council and a Financial Adviser in the private sector. His interests include mountain walking and he has previously instructed young people in outdoor pursuits and been a member of the Central Beacons Mountain Rescue Team. Adrian is currently studying for a Masters Degree in Procurement at University of Glamorgan in Trefforest.
Sign up for e-mail newsletters!! Scroll to the bottom of this page and add your name to the mailing list. We will then send you important news as soon as it's available. Lovells have built a new estate of houses next to the Taff's Well Rugby Club.
Although there are some disadvantages to building on a green space in the middle of the village the development has offered some significant advantages.
Firstly it helps alleviate the shortage of local housing stock allowing local people to move up to larger houses. About 15 of the houses will be affordable houses which should help locale people buy local homes.
Additionally, the developer will eventually pay £72,000 to Taff's Well primary school and, hopefully, the development will generate several new children for local schools, attracting further funding from the Council.
UPDATE I have ensured that the Council's lawyers have requested the payment of £30,000 for leisure use and the developer has already paid £47,000 into the education Department coffers for use in Taffs Well School.
Our opponents, inexplicably, were opposed the development! We think they are seriously out-of-touch with the reality of modern Taff's Well.
STILL ROAD DANGER IN NANTGARW
The traffic lights on Nantgarw Hill are still a danger to pedestrians. There have once more been reports of near misses as cars do illegal U-turns from the downhill to the uphill lanes.
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