AN APPLICATION to build 47 new homes on the Barry site of a former special needs school has been approved by Vale planners.
The Vale Council’s planning committee gave the go-ahead for Persimmon Homes East Wales to construct the homes, together with a new means of vehicular access and pedestrian access onto Gibbonsdown Rise and pedestrian access onto the southern area of public open space, at the Ysgol Maes Dyfan ground
15 of the dwellings will be built as affordable homes.
Vehicular access will be achieved via a new access off Gibbonsdown Rise, directly opposite the access to Sycamore Crescent.
Within the site the main road will run west to east with a secondary street running to the south leading to a shared surface tertiary street running west to east.
Ysgol Maes Dyfan staff and pupils transferred to the Penarth Learning Community following its opening.
The second phase of the development for a further 24 dwellings will be considered at a later date once the outcome of a bat survey on the caretaker's cottage is known.
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