New sports clubhouse in Torfaen will have 'negative impact on that quintessentially … – Cwmbran Life

A COUPLE have claimed a sports club – which has been given permission to build a new clubhouse – is blighting the tranquility of their village. Ponthir Sports and Community Club has been given permission to add a new two-storey community hub, with two licensed bars, to its grounds as well as to convert its existing cricket pavilion to new changing rooms and revamp its car park. But Gay Reynolds and husband David, of Station Road which borders the recreation ground, spoke against the application when it was considered by Torfaen County Borough Council’s planning committee earlier today. Mr Reynolds said the residents of all nine homes on their street had objected to the application and told the committee: “The proposed development will have a negative impact on that quintessentially British idyll, the village green.” His wife said she, and others, weren’t opposed to the club’s plans to increase sports provision but described the proposed 6.5 metres-high community hub as a “two-storey events venue bound to increase noise and anti-social behaviour”. Mrs Reynolds said club members already use it as a social club and feared the new venue would be used “up to seven days a week up to 11pm”.
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