{"id":18541,"date":"2018-01-30T17:12:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T17:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=18541"},"modified":"2018-02-06T16:20:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T16:20:33","slug":"elderly-residents-worried-about-eco-home-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/elderly-residents-worried-about-eco-home-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly residents worried about eco-home project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A plan to build 42 eco-homes in Heath has been\u00a0described as a &#8220;carbuncle&#8221; by elderly residents living in nearby bungalows.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Heath Residents Association (HRA) said the three-story high build on Allensbank Road will reduce natural light and have an impact on existing residents.<\/p>\n<p>But Independent Councillor for Heath, Fenella Bowden, said the HRA are scaremongering.<\/p>\n<p>The application for the self-sufficient houses and flats will be heard at Planning Committee next week.<\/p>\n<p>John Jones from the Heath Residents Association said he has received hundreds of complaints from residents.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Jones said: &#8220;The main concern is that they are going to build high density here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The three story block of flats will be overlooking bungalows in which the resident are disabled, many of them are elderly and they are all vulnerable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Carol Hall and Jane Urquhart live in bungalows that back onto the proposed site.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Urquhart said: &#8220;We feel horrified by it. I think they are putting up too many.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think a lot of people here are defenceless because they can&#8217;t fight anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Hall said: &#8220;It&#8217;s also the fact that nobody over there, the planning people, have bothered to turn up and talk to anyone about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a statement the developer, Wates Residential, said the properties will be in-keeping with the surrounding area and have been designed taking neighbouring homes into account.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Bowden said safeguarding vulnerable people is a priority: &#8220;I have worked for a long time with the older and disabled people who live in the bungalows, and they have been scaremongered frankly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are not going to have their privacy compromised.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The suggestion from the Residents Association and the petitioners that in some way that the council hasn&#8217;t taken any account is absolutely not true. Safeguarding is our number one priority when it comes to protecting vulnerable people in that area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cardiff Council would not comment on a scheme going through the planning process.<\/p>\n<p>The planning application will be heard at Planning Committee on 7th February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A plan to build 42 eco-homes in Heath has been\u00a0described as a &#8220;carbuncle&#8221; by elderly residents living in nearby bungalows.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744],"tags":[838],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18541"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18897,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18541\/revisions\/18897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}