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Barry firms breached park planning rules

Monday, 30 December 2024 17:06

By Ted Peskett - Local Democracy Reporter X @TedPeskettNews

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Three companies at a Barry business park have been found to have breached planning rules.

Vale of Glamorgan Brewery, Vale Community Fitness and CB Stone were operating at the Atlantic Business Park in a way that fell outside of what was allowed by planning conditions attached to the site when it was developed.

Last month, Vale Council's planning committee gave authorisation to issue enforcement notices to the companies.

However, the Local Democracy Reporting Service understands that these were no longer needed in the end.

Vale of Glamorgan Brewery is no longer operating at the business park - but according to the council, Vale Community Fitness is currently in the process of applying for planning permission and CB Stone is now operating lawfully.

A council spokesperson told the LDRS: "The council has not taken enforcement action against any of these businesses, with such a move always a last resort. Instead, officers will look to resolve planning disputes informally through negotiation wherever possible."

"In these cases, following discussions, Vale Community Fitness are applying for planning permission, while CB Stone are operating lawfully."

"If the brewery has closed, then that is of its own accord, not because of council enforcement action.”

Dawan Developments is the the company behind the business park. The firm’s director, Anwar Ismail, said it is up to tenants who lease the buildings on site to comply with planning regulations.

According to a Vale Council report: "The use of units 3, 30, and 40-42 at Atlantic Business Park for purposes other than those falling under use classes B1 and B8 may have uncontrolled and detrimental environmental impacts on residential and public amenity in terms of generating noise pollution, odours, additional traffic movements, and any other impacts."

"These uses could become lawful and immune from enforcement action after ten continuous years, which would be an entirely unacceptable position for the local planning authority to support, given the uses identified may only be deemed acceptable subject to requiring appropriate mitigation by attaching planning conditions to a grant of planning consent."

Planning permission was granted for the Atlantic Business Park in 2018 on condition that the buildings on-site were to be used for light industrial business or storage and distribtuion.

Vale Council said in a planning report that it found a number of businesses to be operating there outside of this remit.

The report also stated that many of these businesses applied for planning permission to resolve the matter.

Vale of Glamorgan Brewery was visited by former Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, at the start of his general election campaign in May 2024.

Mr Ismail said Atlantic Business Park has brought jobs to the area and that it was built before a new housing development appeared in Hayeswood Road.

He added: “At the end of the day what [tenants] rent from me is a building…what they do within that build is up to them and it is up to them as the tenant to ensure they meet the planning regulations and requirements."

“Our job is to build the building, make sure it meets building [regulations] and complies with the planning permission granted when it was built."

“Any change of use is down to the tenants. It is not down to me as the landlord.”

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