SIR,
I am grateful to Amanda Copp and Cllr Hempstead for keeping in your readers' minds the issue of the planning application to site yurts in the heart of the Penarth Valley.
Their letters missed the mark.
The issue is whether the Copps' application to site yurts at two previously wholly undeveloped sites in this beautiful public place should succeed or be refused as we have a duty to preserve such places for succeeding generations.
If asked, the applicants will tell you that the siting of yurts is a matter of small importance; that they will do no harm.
But careful reading of their submission to the Monmouthshire County Council (MCC) planners reveals that no such details form part of the application. In fact, the application for change of use covers the whole of Prysg Wood and the entire field at Penarth Mill.
At the Copps' invitation on Sunday last we were able to tour the original and two new proposed sites.
Details of the application are freely available at http://www.ukplanning.com">www.ukplanning.com: Search Applications – Wales, Monmouth; Search Applications again and enter the application number 2210/01096.
I hope Beacon readers will take a moment to consider the application carefully and then decide whether or what to post. Clearly, I hope they will object to this application as it threatens forever the peace and tranquillity of a local beauty spot in the Wye Valley AONB.
I would urge them to do this now, as the application is likely to be considered by MCC Planning Committee later this month.
David Scouller
(Llanishen)