Plans for almost 100 new homes submitted to council
ALMOST 100 new homes are set to be built on the edge of Carmarthen after a national housing company submitted plans for an ambitious new development.
The plans, which are currently under consultation, will see 92 new homes built in a field to the west of the town centre.
The land, called Frondeg, sits west of St David’s Park and between the A40 dual carriageway to the south and Pentremeurig Road to the north.
The site comprises a single field and occupies an area of around 5.4 hectares, with a development area of approximately 3.16 hectares which is currently in agricultural use, and is within Carmarthenshire Council’s Local Development Plan.
Persimmon Homes is the company behind the project. If plans get the go-ahead, the 92 new dwellings will be made up of two and three-storey houses, 11 of which will be affordable homes.
There are also plans for detailed landscaping and a network of streets and sustainable drainage attenuation ponds. There will also be easy access to the Carmarthen West link road for walking, cycling and car use.
The area surrounding the development is a combination of open countryside and existing residential spaces. There are fields to the north and west of the proposed site, with the link road immediately alongside its eastern boundary before another field which separates the land from St David’s Park, the former site of St David’s Hospital. The closest development to the south is the Parc yr Onnen development, which consists of 100 dwellings constructed recently by Persimmon Homes.
According to Persimmon Homes, the development will “contribute significantly to the range and type of house types available in the local area” and “address shortfalls in essential local services and facilities such as education”.
The company also claimed the project would provide “a massive boost to the local economy through the construction industry and its multiplier effect – that is, for every £1 spent on housing, £3 goes back into the economy and that each home built creates 1.5 full-time direct jobs; it is also estimated that at least twice that number of jobs is created in the supply chain”.
As part of a wider housing plan, earlier this year, Carmarthenshire Council unveiled plans to deliver 2,200 affordable homes across the county.
The houses, flats and bungalows would be delivered by the council in partnership with housing associations and private developers, as well as properties the local authority builds or renovates itself.
In 2019 the authority said it wanted to build 900 council houses in a 10-year project costing £150m.
More than 2,500 people and organisations responded to a consultation on the plans, with feedback saying that housing need should determine where more homes were delivered, and that transport and broadband links needed to be improved in rural areas.