HEOL Y GLYN DEVELOPMENT, GLYNNEATH

In this report we see how a document submitted to the Neath Port Talbot Council planning department as part of a planning application has been falsified to cause a misrepresentation of the land status of the Heol-y-Glyn landfill site with regards to its historical use as a landfill site. The purpose of this misrepresentation is to remove legislative environmental responsibility for the developer and the local authority (regulatory council). The land which historically has been a landfill site since the late 1930s contains a large amount of toxins that could cause ill health and/or death to human receptors. Responsibility for the toxins lies jointly with the council and the developer through the polluter pays principle. This document identifies the method used to create false information so that both parties can avoid the financial and administrative responsibility that the legislations 1990 Environmental Protection Act and the 1990 Town & Country Act require of them.

In 2008. the information in this document produced by Terra Firma (Wales) Limited was manipulated and re-submitted for a planning application with the Neath-Port Talbot Local Planning authority in 2009. The document misrepresented the status of the land which had been a domestic and industrial landfill site since the late 1930s. Over the next year, the planning process from the housing development at the Heol-y-Glyn landfill site went through a desktop remediation of contamination information leaving the poisons on the site untreated and unidentified. The subsequent movement of these poisons by developers and the importing of further contaminated land for the purpose of landfill has caused several deaths that can be linked to other historical contamination death clusters. Between July 2009 and September 2020 deaths surrounding the site from poisons hidden by Neath Port Talbot Council would be defined as corporate manslaughter.

In 2020 this manipulation of information was discovered by a residents group bordering the landfill site and it was agreed by the then Council Leader in April 2020 that this information would be submitted to the Planning Committee for consideration with regards to a planning application they were due to assess. It was ignored, so a draft document identifying the process of desktop remediation was published and submitted to the Planning Committee in time for a planning application decision meeting relating to the site in September 2020.

From that point onwards Neath-Port Talbot Council have engaged developers, planning agents and other regulatory authorities such as Natural Resources Wales, Public Health Wales and the Glynneath Town Council to manipulate information and to cover-up the hidden contamination and related deaths. They have used both on-line and physical acts of aggression and information manipulation to cause the false-truth in this document to remain hidden. There has been a complete disregard for human life which has perpetuated the murder of residents bordering the site from poisons that the Neath-Port Talbot council have a regulatory duty to control. As part of the reporting process through the Member of Parliament for Neath, Christina Rees, the Chief Executive of Neath Port Talbot Council Karen Jones identified that the council had engaged South Wales Police in an aggressive cover-up action against the residents.

Neath-Port Talbot Council have breached the 1990 Environmental Protection Act, the 2007 Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act while enabling developers to breach the 1974 Control of Pollution Act. We believe that at least 20 deaths can be directly linked to the contamination since the developer Enzo Homes created an extensive disturbance of the land in 2020 and over the period 2008-2026 approximately 50-200 deaths have occurred that have a direct or partial causation through contamination.

The Glynneath Contamination (homicides) Murders have being perpetuated by the following public officials with the power to intervene with regards their duty of care and to report these offences to cause an investigation into the historic actions in relation to information submitted to Neath-Port Talbot Council by Terra Firma (Wales) Ltd. Each public official named here has been provided with evidence of environmental crimes and is guilty of Gross Negligence Manslaughter or acting as an accessory to this offence. The collective group names and others by association are guilty of Corporate Homicide.

Ceri Morris, Head of Planning and Public Protection, Steve Ball, Planning Development Manager, Craig Griffiths, Legal Officer, Neath Port Talbot Council, Jonathan Willington, Natural Resources Wales, Neath Port Talbot Council Councillors, Simon Knoyle, Councillor Stephen Karl Hunt, Suzanne Paddison, Councillor Del Morgan (ex NPTC, now GTC), Ceri Willcox, Glynneath Town Council Clerk, Councillor John Blower (GTC), Councillor Emyr Harris (GTC), Councillor Martha Cowley (GTC). Inspector Lindsay Sweeney, South Wales Police. This is not an exhaustive list but draws on direct governance responsibilities and the refusal to take the appropriate action required by their duty of care to the residents bordering the site.

We have collected empirical evidence from a large number of residents, including some born next to the site, with over 70 years experience of observing the site. Initially this was done through telephone conversations due to COVID lockdown restrictions and graduated to face to face interviews once restrictions were lifted. A large number of interviewees acknowledged that they played on the site as children. Video evidence collected includes family members of the original council employees who confirm the site history and testimonies of illegal tipping at the site. Everyone interviewed with knowledge of the history of the site confirmed that the Heol-y-Glyn landfill site was operated as a council domestic landfill site that was known locally as 'the tip'. From evidence collected we were able to determine that the site was operational as a council ash tip (landfill site) from the late 1930s until the late 1970s. Following on from that, during the late 1990s it became an industrial landfill site for the demolition and asbestos removal company, the Cuddy Group Ltd who tipped extensively on the site breaking planning conditions until 2016.

This along with the intrusive trial pit and bore hole testing information contained in the original report showing 'made ground', map data showing the landform of spoil heaps and satellite images identify conclusively the land status as a landfill site prior to and post completion of the 2008 report on which this document is based. See image below dated December 2006.

Along with the landflll historical information it began to emerge from resident testimonies that there were cluster deaths, particularly of cancer in several locations bordering the site. At a later date, a rare neurodegenerative disorder that can be linked to contamination, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, was discovered next to the site.

We have downloaded the documents contained on the planning application portal before they were removed from the portal. We have built a page on the www.walk-around-wales.com website for further scrutiny of these documents should it be required.

https://www.walk-around-wales.com/archive/2025/05-2025/20250505R-WBIF-P2008-1462.htm

The geo-technical report on which this report was based was scrutinised in 2020 in an attempt the understand the composition of the land. In 2020 it became clear that the contamination had been hidden and we eventually created the council of death report to identify the processes involved. We discovered the desktop remediation of the contamination information which caused it to be hidden with regards to the remainder of the planning process. The council of death report document went through a process of submission to the relevant regulatory authorities including the Neath Port Talbot Council Planning Committee, Natural Resources Wales, Glynneath Town Council and South Wales Police for investigation into the unlawful killing of residents. The information and conclusion of the document remains unchallenged by these authorities.

In 2025 we scrutinised this document again to discover the purpose and methods used by the author with regards the information contained, the conclusion of our investigations into this report identifies the document as a deliberately constructed FALSE-TRUTH.

The document is a false truth because it shows a landfill site not as a landfill site.

FALSE: Not a landfill site is a false statement - TRUTH: It is a landfill site is the truth

The statement:

The statement: Envirocheck confirms that no historical or current landfill sites situates within 1km of the site.

is a FALSE TRUTH

If we look at the title of the report

GEO-TECHNICAL AND GEO-ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT - PROPOSED RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT, HEOL-Y-GLYN, GLYN-NEATH

We see the purpose of the report is to provide information that identifies whether or not the land is suitable for a residential development. It is the composition of the land beneath the proposed housing development that defines this suitability, not the historical land form as defined on ordnance survey maps. The report is a collection of evidence, most of which identifies the land form on the maps as made ground, a landfill site, the composition of the land testing identifies the land is made ground, a landfill site and the contamination testing identifies the land is made ground, the poisons identify the land's historical use as a landfill site.

The report was initially submitted in November 2008 as an extensive collection of information but when it is re-submitted in July 2009; the land form and land composition evidence; information that identified the land as a landfill site had been removed. Whereas, a pre-landfill map from 1921 remained as evidence to support the FALSE-TRUTH that caused a misrepresentation of the land status through the planning application process. The report's generation information such as title, personnel, job number etc show it's appearance is intended to be the same document as previously submitted. The intention of the re-submission is to cause a deception with regards to the landfill status of the site, a false-truth has been generated through the manipulation of information.

The statement: Envirocheck confirms that no historical or current landfill sites situates within 1km of the site.

is an information generated deliberately constructed FALSE-TRUTH.

The initial report identified chemical contamination above safety guidelines on what was regarded as limited and shallow sampling https://youtu.be/f1xTUnDZiRI - by the Council Pollution Officer at the September 2020 planning meeting. Evidence in the bore-hole testing shows at least 8 metres of landfill in some places whereas the contamination testing in this report was mostly 2 metres or less. Under the 1990 Environmental Protection Act the land should have been earmarked for further investigation. The human health risk assessment suggested the land was potentially dangerous to nearby residents and suggested a form of remediation. There is no evidence of the land being remediated, however there is evidence that shows a series of planning applications being submitted after the report, where the land is given a brownfield status which is then subsequently removed in a later application. In effect, the contamination went through a desktop remediation process to remove the contamination information from the process. This was in direct opposition to the legislative requirement which was a physical remediation of the contamination. The purpose of the report is to create an information source allowing the council to avoid its responsibility with regards to the 1990 Environmental Protection Act.

MADE GROUND: We take the meaning of made ground in this report to be:

Made Ground (also referred to as Fill) is defined as any area where the natural, undisturbed ground surface has been altered or raised by human activities. It consists of artificial, man-made deposits rather than naturally occurring geological. (google AI generated accepted meaning)

Almost every borehole and trial pit in the intrusive testing included in the report submitted in November 2008 show the land composition to be made ground.

The land had been tipped on extensively for the majority of the previous 70 years prior to the publishing of this report and had been recently used as a landfill site around the time the report was commissioned. The summary with regards to the landfill status of the report is entirely desktop (computer) digital information driven and fails to acknowledge the information from the intrusive physical information that is included in the report and information contained in historical physical records of the predecessor councils.

The initial report of 149 pages containing this information was submitted as part of a planning application in July 2008. The same report was submitted again in a shortened form of 41 pages nine months later in July 2009 for the same application. Missing information was the relative evidence that showed the land was almost entirely made ground', which identified the actual landfill status of the site. All the maps containing evidence of the landfill site had been removed leaving one map dated 1921 which pre-dated the landfill status of the site. This single piece of specific information is clearly designed to signpost any readers of the report towards the desired 'not a landfill' conclusion of the developer and Neath Port Talbot Council planning department. The report states that:

The Envirocheck confirms that no historical or current landfill sites situates within 1km of the site.

Which is clearly a false misrepresentation of an actual working landfill site.

What we see here is the engineering of information to cause a FALSE-TRUTH on the status of land on which a housing development was to take place. Relevant information about the status of the land was destroyed. If interpreted correctly to show the truth, the information in the original document would have shown a landfill site in current use. Instead the executive summary of the document suggested the historical status of the land was of 'open fields'. This information was designed to cause a FALSE- TRUTH

moore-knight link to Companies House		The 2008 Geo-Technical and Geo-Environmental report was prepared for Moore Knight Ltd by Terra Firma (Wales) Ltd. The directors of Moore-Knight Ltd lived in Swansea, however there is no evidence that they ever traded. In May 2007 they submitted dormant accounts which means they were a non-active company. By the time the second submission of the report was made to the planning department the company Moore Knight Ltd had already had a notice for compulsory strike-off (June 2009).
terra-firma-TFIR https://tfwgroup.co.uk/	TFIR-ENZD	Terra Firma (Wales) Ltd, (now TFW Group Ltd). Terra Firma Wales have been involved in the testing and preparation of documents for the Heol-y-Glyn landfill site proposed development since at least 2008. We believe they are still involved with Shorts Bros and the testing of the site for contamination, however this needs confirmation.
https://www.npt.gov.uk/	NPTC	Neath-Port Talbot Council

The outcome of this false truth is that poisons have existed at the site for the last 18 years without the protection of environmental laws. Children have been born with mutations and several people have died from illnesses, disorders and conditions that can be linked to toxic waste poisoning. A report was produced identifying one type of neurodegenerative disorder, psp-cluster-report with links to contamination. This report was destroyed by Glynneath Town Council without actually recording it in their records.

According to this Geo-Technical & Geo-Environmental report in line with council contaminated land strategy the contamination should have been remediated, however it was not. The failure to uphold the law with regards to the contamination by Neath-Port Talbot Council whose regulatory responsibility it was allowed the Cuddy group to escalate their tipping. Tipping more volume and more toxic substances. The subsequent process of removing the contamination information so that this re-mediation could be avoided in the planning process can be found in the Council of Death document submitted to the Planning Committee on 7 September 2020 - council of death report. This report was ignored by the planning committee who gave approval for the housing development to re-commence.

	wm/79	This image saved in May 2025 shows a geo-technical and geo-environmental report submitted for planning application P2008/1462 on 26 November 2008 and again on 10 July 2009. If we look at the memory size 12,505 in November 2008 and 2,219kb in July 2009. The first document is over 5 times larger than the second so an initial observation would suggest they must be different documents. However, the document front cover and status identification "Final", is the same along with the job number 10287 and all other information such as personnel, Essentially, its the same document in a shorter version with a large amount of relevant information is missing.
20250505R-DORP-geo-technical-2 (149 pages)		GEO TECHNICAL & GEO-ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT - ORIGINAL DOCUMENT - 20250505R-DORP-geo-technical-2 (NPTC doc 122723) is the initial submitted Geo-technical report - 149 pages to include the Envirocheck report, borehole and trial pit investigation information. The document submitted on 26 November 2008 is a pdf file double page created on 29/6/2016, most likely a pdf has been created for inclusion on the NPTC planning portal. This document is a sub-directory of 20250505R-WBRP-geo-technical
20250505R-DORP-geo-technical (41 pages)		GEO TECHNICAL & GEO-ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT - ORIGINAL DOCUMENT RE-SUBMITTED - 20250505R-DORP-geo-technical- (NPTC doc 171857) 41 pages The only Envirocheck map included in this report is dated 1921 at 1:10,000 scale which predates the council owned landfill site. The document submitted in July 2009 is a pdf file single page and digitalised for the website on 30/6/2016. This information is consistent with the information being digitalised for website use. This document is a sub-directory of 20250505R-WBRP-geo-technical
	wy/50	Executive summary to include 'fields' highlighted
	wr/52	The Envirocheck confirms that no historical or current landfill sites situates within 1km of the site.
	wr/59	Map image 1921, scale 1:10,560. This map appears in both the 41 and 149 page reports. It is the only map in the 41 page report.
	wr/57	Map image 1981scale 1:2,500. This map only appears in the 149 page report. It clearly shows a spoil heap exists at the site.
	wr/56	Map image comparison 1921-1981 - additional image 1981 map with council rubbish tip marked as spoil heap.
	yq/63	20250505R-WBRP-geo-technical combination image. trial pit testing with elevated levels of contamination together with potential receptors to include 'neighbouring residents' via Ingestion, Inhalation and Dermal Contact.
	wm/32	20250505R-WBRP-geo-technical Bore Hole testing sample 3 shows the landfill at this point to be at least 8 metres deep.
	wm/37	20250505R-WBRP-geo-technical TP3 land composition
	wm/31	20250505R-WBRP-geo-technical TP3 soil composition, chemical testing
	wo/48	2008/1462 - council planning documents page with information removed. Image saved on 25/4/2026

	wx/89	20250505R-WBIF-P2008-1462 - application documents - image saved in May 2025
	wo/48	20250505R-WBIF-P2008-1462 - 2008/1462 - council planning documents page with information removed. Image saved on 25/4/2026