Housing can be built opposite Cwmifor Village Hall provided that community benefits are provided.
Carmarthenshire County Council’s planning committee yesterday granted outline planning permission for residential development and a community car park on land in Cwmifor, Llandeilo.
Outline permission was originally approved in 2007 and a Section 106 Agreement on community benefits was drafted but not signed. The applicant has now asked to amend it to stagger community benefit payments because of the slowdown in the housing market.
An officers’ report to this week’s meeting said: “The authority accepts the principle of staggering payments whilst the site is developed as this would allow the applicant to generate the sufficient cash flow required to progress the site through to its completion.
“What the authority wishes to avoid is placing unrealistic burdens on applicants which might potentially render sites unviable and undevelopable owing to the up-front costs demanded.”
The agreement is that the developer should contribute £25,000 towards the maintenance of a public open space and/or the upgrading of local play area facilities, contribute £30,000 towards education services, and ensure that a percentage of the houses are affordable homes.
The first payment £15,000 would be made before the third house is occupied, the second payment of £15,000 before the fifth house is occupied and the third payment of £25,000 before the seventh house is occupied.
