{"id":22419,"date":"2019-02-01T15:20:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T15:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=22419"},"modified":"2019-02-04T16:40:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T16:40:08","slug":"controversial-plans-for-grangetown-flats-wont-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/controversial-plans-for-grangetown-flats-wont-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversial plans for Grangetown flats won&#8217;t change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Plans to build a seven storey block of flats in Grangetown will remain the same despite privacy concerns.\u00a0<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Developers Rightacres, have responded to residents&#8217; complaints about their plans to build the seven-storey block on Penarth Road.<\/p>\n<p>They say they won&#8217;t be changing the plans after local people expressed concerns that occupants\u00a0would be able to see straight into their homes.<\/p>\n<p>Residents are also worried there isn&#8217;t enough car parking and it will make traffic congestion worse.<\/p>\n<p>Cardiff council is due to consider the planning application for the flats, which would\u00a0be on the site of a former bottleworks and cheese factory.<\/p>\n<p>Rightacres have released a statement in response to residents and local councillors.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve said the plans are in keeping with the local area and the benefits of the build outweigh the negatives.<\/p>\n<p>In the statement they&#8217;ve said that reducing the height &#8220;would render the project unviable&#8221;\u00a0 They also said that there&#8217;s no planning argument to suggest the building will invade people&#8217;s privacy.<\/p>\n<p>The Labour Councillor for Grangetown, Ashley Lister, who opposed the development responded: &#8220;I&#8217;m a bit disappointed to be honest but I can see that Rightacres have actually made justifications in their response and really now it&#8217;s up to residents to take this 21-day period to respond&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plans to build a seven storey block of flats in Grangetown will remain the same despite privacy concerns.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":188,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,750],"tags":[951,453,614],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22419"}],"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\/188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22419"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22486,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22419\/revisions\/22486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}