{"id":22381,"date":"2019-02-01T15:28:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T15:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=22381"},"modified":"2019-02-01T17:34:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T17:34:11","slug":"canton-redevelopment-threatens-ancient-trees-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/canton-redevelopment-threatens-ancient-trees-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Canton redevelopment threatens ancient trees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Residents\u00a0are concerned about the impact that a redevelopment of a 0.66 acre site could have on Llandaf Road in Canton.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Suffolk House was built in 1800 by a wealthy father as a gift to his daughter.<\/p>\n

But it has seen better days.<\/p>\n

The council originally agreed to sell the premises due\u00a0to the \u201cpoor condition and high cost of outstanding repair\u201d.<\/p>\n

Planning permission is being considered by the Council, to turn the listed\u00a0building into student\u00a0accommodation.<\/p>\n

But it has divided opinion.<\/p>\n

Residents say\u00a0local traffic, architectural value and trees are all factors to be considered in the reconstruction.<\/p>\n

Labour Councillor, Ramesh Patel, says that developing the property into student apartments will seriously affect congestion around the building.<\/p>\n

“I don’t believe the transport people or the highways agency have looked at it properly.<\/p>\n

“It’s the problems with the parking and the traffic, that it will generate. The exit from Llandaf Road will have queues of cars lining up”.<\/p>\n

Suffolk House Campaigner, Ceri Williams, says that Cardiff Council needs to change its policy, so there is more control over what happens to unused properties.<\/p>\n

“It does seem to be part of a wider policy that Cardiff Council have to be very pro-development, very pro-business and don’t really listening to residents about what type of city they want to live in.<\/p>\n

“It is important to remember that it\u00a0used to be a council property”.<\/p>\n

Some of the people of Canton\u00a0have held public meetings in opposition to the move about protecting the trees around the building which are potentially being cut down.<\/p>\n

A document published by them refers to \u201cancient and magnificent Copper Beech, Limes, Holm Oak and Sycamore trees\u201d.<\/p>\n

In a statement Cardiff Council have pledged to plant more trees.<\/p>\n

But\u00a0Suffolk House Campaigner,\u00a0Joy Williams, says such saplings are not as effective as the trees that have been there for hundreds of years.<\/p>\n

“They won’t be able to take in as much Carbon Dioxide as these trees do around Suffolk House and they will take time to grow.<\/p>\n

“Why not keep something so precious which is doing a wonderful job for us, instead of planting saplings”.<\/p>\n

Whilst Suffolk House has a deep-rooted history in Canton, its future remains unknown until the 23rd of February, when a final decision will be made.<\/p>\n

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Residents\u00a0are concerned about the impact that a redevelopment of a 0.66 acre site could have on Llandaf Road in Canton. Suffolk House was built in 1800 by a wealthy father as a gift to his daughter. But it has seen better days. The council originally agreed to sell the premises due\u00a0to the \u201cpoor condition and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[744],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22381"}],"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\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22381"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22480,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22381\/revisions\/22480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}