Planning application
River Meadow To The East Of Llanvair Kilgeddin, Bordering The River Usk. Two Fields With Central Ditch Draining Into The Usk.
Still open. Anyone can comment while the consultation period runs, and comments go to the council rather than to us.
Proposal
1. Excavation of pondscape area - a mix of shallow scrapes and ponds of varying depths. Pondscape area size including ditch are 1 and 2 = 0.20 ha 2. Scallop shaped excavations in 7 areas along the ditch, varying from 5-6m wide and 12-20m long to create wider open water areas. Max size = 0.02 ha for each scallop shape area.
As published by the council, reference DM/2026/00876
Application record
- Reference
- DM/2026/00876
- Type
- Planning Permission
- Status
- Pending Consideration
- Received
- 17 Jul 2026
- Validated
- 17 Jul 2026
- Ward
- Gobion Fawr
- Parish
- Gobion Fawr Community Council
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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17 Jul 2026
Received by Monmouthshire
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28 Jul 2026
Added to PlanIndex
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Decision
Awaiting decision
Decision expected by 11 September 2026, 8 weeks from validation under the statutory target for most applications. Extensions of time are common and are agreed case by case.
Monmouthshire took a median of 49 days over the applications it decided in the last year.
Documents
Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
12 documents on file for this application
- ONLINE COMMENT 10:27 AM
- ONLINE COMMENT 09:21 PM
- MCC LEAD LOCAL FLOOD AUTHORITY COMMENT
- HOLDING OBJECTION - BIODIVERSITY
- NRW COMMENT
- EOT REQUEST
- APPLICATION FORM
- SITE MAP - RESERVE BOUNDARY
- RIVER MEADOW WETLAND CREATION DESIGN - COPY
- LLANFAIR KILGEDDIN HRA
- RIVER MEADOW POND CREATION ENVIRONMENTAL STATEMEN
- OTTER SURVEY REPORT 2 JULY
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