Denbighshire County Council, Clwyd Alyn Housing and Taylor Wimpey all have plans to develop the land next to glasdir in Ruthin - which will mean an increase of 100 homes and reduce a great deal of green space , increasing cars next to two primary schools and adversely impact the local town.

I have grave concerns over the impact of successful planning application and feel that if this goes ahead, the town will be irreversibly affected. To halt this will maintain our quality of life.

The building of stated dwellings is a deplorable ecological act. Indeed, in the future, this will be recorded as an idiotic act of Ecocide. The environmental impact of the birds, bees, bats (as well as many others within this ecosystem) will effectively be environmental vandalism. There is of course a sickening irony. The likes of Taylor Wimpey and Clwyd Alyn extol the present natural beauty of Ruthin, yet with their current plans are looking to destroy it.

The dwellings created will bring an influx of people and cars that cannot be sustained. There is a history of flooding and drainage issues, poor roads with speeding cars and rather than follow the example of the rest of the world in caring for the environment, Denbighshire County Council, Taylor Wimpey and Clwyd Alyn could go in the opposite direction.

Another negative impact would be on the Welsh language. Forty houses planned by Taylor Wimpey on the land behind the current site of Glasdir, 77 dwellings planned by Clwyd Alyn will trouble an already vulnerable language. If you allow this to go ahead what kind of place will Ruthin be in the years to come?

As well as language, traffic, services like Doctors and surgeries, dentists, nurseries, and schools will be affected. These are amenities that can barely support existing needs. These plans will transform an area without the consent of the local people. Akin to the proroguing of Parliament by our current Prime Minister!

As a resident of Glasdir since 2012 I find these plans grossly unbalanced. There is no loyalty to those who suffered from the floods – those who were abandoned for 6 and a half years – despite the floods, an effect of the grates, hedge and grass trimmings left by DCC and Taylor Wimpey. Left for 6.5 years in an incomplete site. We are now being asked to live on a building site for the foreseeable future. The noise – both from construction and construction traffic will be unbearable – and I already have evidence of Taylor Wimpey starting before the 8am agreed planning time.

Furthermore, as a resident of Glasdir I will lose the privacy I currently have. The building of more dwellings will have a visual impact and a loss of landscape given that the plans include apartments. A site that is already crammed and overdeveloped, with narrow roads and atrocious parking (despite yellow lines which people simply ignore), is a place where I fear a vehicle and child collision becomes increasingly likely. A fire engine would struggle to come into Glasdir currently. If more dwellings are built around it, there is a guarantee of more vehicles. Combined new plans could see over 100 dwellings – meaning a possible increase of 200 cars. This is 200 more cars next to two primary schools. Hardly fit for the 21st Century, I hope you agree?

I then come to my most important point. Children. Where will the children play? This side of Ruthin will lose its green spaces. No homes should ever be built on greenspaces like these when there are other alternatives available. Childhood obesity is already on the rise.  With no green spaces for children to play, what provision will you have to solve an ever-increasing crisis? Green spaces that Ysgol Pen Barras & Rhos Street use for Sports Days – will be a site of pollution and traffic. Is this any way to support our children? Of course not. In fact, as a resident of Glasdir who walks his children to school I am horrified to notice the removal of a passage from Glasdir to the school that will mean we will be forced closer to the busy main road.

The schools themselves will also be under a tremendous increase in pressure which will again transform them without the consent of local people. With the combined plans there will be over 100 new homes. This will mean the two schools will be under severe pressure of increased numbers. Numbers which their own facilities (after school clubs for example) cannot deal with. Working parents already must seek expensive alternative provision – and increase in numbers will see the average working parent hit hard again. An increase in pupils could also see an increase in SEN children. The schools have not the ability to deal with this and this will be extremely detrimental to the children who already (and likely to future) attend.

These plans are wrong. These plans will have a detrimental effect on the character of an area and if they go ahead will, as stated previously, have an irreversible effect on the town of Ruthin. For this reason, I implore you to reject these plans.

Many thanks