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In the words of a local resident who lives
overlooking the Heol y Glyn Development:
"only an idiot would buy a
house there".
I don't suppose that's true because someone
living outside the area would only see a new house. What they won't see is
a history of the tipping of domestic and industrial waste at the site for
the majority of the last 85+ years. They won't know what's underneath the.
Residents surrounding the site however, know exactly what's been going on,
although we have no idea what industrial waste has been tipped, we know
its likely to be very dangerous and we know that people have died from
cancer, heart attacks and neurodegenerative disorders. We know that
children have been born with mutations, and we also know that the local
councils Glynneath Town Council and Neath Port Talbot Council are covering
up toxic waste tests, and that they point blank refuse to follow
contaminated land protocol in relation to the site.
Neath Port Talbot Council and Glynneath
Town Council have for the last three years been covering
up the criminal actions of unscrupulous developers whose only goal is to
make as much money as they can from building a housing estate on top of a
toxic waste dump. The fact that local residents are almost certainly dying
because of the toxic waste means nothing to them.
We have been dealing with a web of
corruption that includes all the government agencies with e stake in the
matter, however the problem is caused in the main by corruption within the
community, the two main political figures Del Morgan (Plaid Cymru /
National Party of Wales) and Simon Knoyle (Glynneath Rugby and Football
Club Coalition) are working against the people to support local government
and developer corruption and their supporters, some of whom are
potentially causing their own death and/or the death of their
families.
My name is Dai
Richards and since 2015, I and others in our groups, the East Glynneath
Residents Against Contamination and the Glynneath Residents Against
Contamination have been fighting for our safety, we have been questioning the reasoning behind the actions of
developers, their agents and public officials..................
CORRUPTION
OVERVIEW
No-one without exception
gives us honest answers. I have discovered that..................
In a series of planning approvals between 2008
and 2010 - The Council failed to follow contaminated land protocol at the
site and ignored a human health risk assessment. Through a series of planning
applications and approvals, the council allowed / worked with the Cuddy
Group to change the nature of the land, ignoring contamination that was
above the safety guidelines. We submitted a draft report to the council
that identified this in September 2020. The council blocked us in October
2020 from any form of communication and to this day they refuse to provide
contrary evidence to the report's findings. - council-of-death-report
- CLICK HERE
Consequential deaths -
The consequence
of allowing a demolition and asbestos removal contractor
(Cuddy Group Ltd) to tip further unlicensed and unregulated waste has
almost certainly caused the deaths of residents surrounding the site. The Cuddy
Group tipped further unregulated waste without following the safety measures, dust suppression
etc. suggested in a human health risk assessment. In the 14 years that the
Cuddy group tipped at the site, there is no evidence of any groundwork in
relation to a development, no sign of a house being built, and no
materials with which to build houses were brought on to site. following
the second death of a member of our group from a rare neuro-degenerative
disorder that can be linked to contamination, we submitted a report to the
Glynneath Town Council for referring to the relevant health or regulatory
authorities. Glynneath Town Councillors destroyed this document and it was
never referred. psp-report - CLICK HERE
P2020/0195 - October / November 2020
- Despite reports from several residents that the developer Enzo Homes was
breaking planning conditions, the Council refused to investigate residents
reports and allowed Enzo Homes to spread contaminated land around the site and
remove some to an unlicensed facility in Powys. Contamination was exposed and
was misrepresented by the council when they imposed conditions on Enzo Homes and this and has/is potentially killing
residents as we speak. In December 2020, we reported the NPT Council Leader to
the police for covering up the Corporate Manslaughter of Glynneath
residents, to potentially include the actress Ruth Madoc and her husband
John Jackson. CLICK
HERE FOR THIS REPORT
Sometime in the Future
- The plans P2020/0863
were passed in March 2021 without going through the relevant committee
process for no other reason than to remove the safety conditions of testing for
chemical contamination on a spoil heap that had already been tested and found to
be contaminated in 2008 and in October 2020. This action by Neath Port Talbot
Council breaks the 1990 Environmental Protection Act. The same spoil heap has had
eyewitness reports of barrels of toxic waste buried in the heap. These plans, P2020/0863
allow the developer to move this spoil heap estimated at 21,000 cubic
metres containing toxins
next to properties bordering the site. During this process toxic waste will
become exposed and dangerous chemicals will become airborne and affect
residents living nearby. P2020/0863
is part of the current planning application P2021/0546
that is awaiting decision (last checked 5/6/2023).
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