Who Are We?

Thank you for visiting our group site, we’d like to understandably start by letting you know a little more about us.

We are a leaderless group of residents from the Fairwater and Pentrebane area. We’re not party political, we just want a fair consultation for our LDP and we’re also against the Waterhall AS (N) 32 Cardiff West development plans.

Even though we are mostly from Fairwater and Pentrebane we would like to get as many Cardiff residents involved as possible, as these plans affect everyone in our beautiful city. Whether it is through loss of your views or land value, to having your road congested with traffic or having to fight for a place for your children in your local school, there are many huge effects and it seems at the moment for the existing residents of the area, they will all be negative.

We are currently a small group but we would like to engage with other local communities in our immediate surroundings, areas such as FAIRWATER, LLANDAFF, RADYR, DANESCOURT, ST FAGANS, ELY and CANTON will all be the worst affected by the Waterhall plans. However the sites in the LDP Alternative Sites Register will affect everyone if given permission to go ahead.

If you would like to join or support our group and our mission, please email us to find out more on what you can do to help, or come along to one of our meetings. Our meetings will be held at different points so it’s always best to check our website to see when the next one will be and where (as we regularly rotate the venues and dates to make it as fair as possible for all of us).

What Are We Doing?

We are currently working as a group using the skills we use in our normal daily lives to help create awareness for the public and trying to prevent these plans from going ahead.

Our first objective is to try and get Cardiff Council to reconsult on the LDP alternative sites register. We are doing this through preparing an online petition for people to sign, showing their own protest for the consultation so far.

We are currently also preparing posters to place in local community windows showing support for our mission to block the Waterhall housing plans. We are also trying to inform other people of our group and attract new members from all over Cardiff. As long as we can create enough objection then we can stop these plans from going ahead.

What Can You Do?

We need as much help as we can get.

You can help us in many ways.

You can join our group and come to our meetings and help us by providing new thoughts and ideas we may not have thought of. You could place one of our posters in your window. Tell your friends and family about the plans, they might not be already aware of them and they might stand to lose a lot in their lives! No local news spreads quite as fast as that spread by word of mouth. So please get talking!!

You might be able to offer us professional help. If you have special skills, you could offer a lot of assistance to us whether it be through the ability to print posters or place them in your shop window, or you might be a town planner or a legal specialist or work in IT. We are pretty sure that almost any person in any field of work could have a positive impact on our group.

We all need to remember that we might as individuals, stand to lose from these plans and we all need to work together to stop them, it’s the only way we can. We don’t have the huge pockets that developers have, but if we all put our heads together and care, we have all the required skills and abilities to stop them.