Dear Editor,
I wonder whether people who live on or near the A485 realise what kind of impact the building of the proposed RES wind farm at Bryn Llywelyn would have on their lives if the Public Inquiry, later this month, gives permission for it to go ahead? The road journey from Carmarthen to Llanllwni involves turning around 6 severely angled hilly bends: the worst one is just above Alltwalis, which has a large rocky outcrop on one side and a steep downward slope on the other. So it would seem that considerable work would be needed to create a usable route. There are other such bends i.e. 2 before you reach Gwddgrug, 1 just before New Inn, and 2 just before Llanllwni. These facts imply many road closures while these problems are dealt with and would be followed by a great deal of extra traffic once the building of the wind farm begins.
The wind farm developer RES' own figures admit to a total of 25,726 vehicular movements of which 7,902 are for stone to construct extra or widened roads, 2,378 are for concrete, and 300 for giant turbine parts. When it comes to HGV movements (which local people already know, cause delays on steep hills) there would be an 83% increase between Pontarsais and Alltwalis, and a 153% increase North of Llanllwni i.e. the Mountain Road. The movements would be between 6 a.m. and 8 p.m. so we will all have to become early risers because of the loud intrusive noise of huge vehicles climbing up local hills.
Carmarthen Council's own policies state that "proposals that would generate levels of traffic ...which would cause harm to highway safety on that network, or to the amenity of residents living alongside that network, will be refused"! Bear in mind that we are faced with even bigger problems with the forthcoming building of the already approved Brechfa West wind farm. Let us hope these developers are not going to operate at the same time, although even then it would seem, to put it mildly, we residents face a very lengthy period of serious discomfort and inconvenience, over several years!
Yours sincerely,
Ted Razzell
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