APPENDIX 6: MINERALS AND WASTE HANDLING FACILITIES

HEADS OF THE VALLEYS REGENERATION AREA

Cwmbargoed Disposal Point is an existing industrial installation primarily used for the preparation and despatch of coal by road and rail. It currently handles all the coal from the adjoining Ffos-y-frân reclamation and opencast scheme and includes staff accommodation, welfare and car parking facilities ancillary to the Ffos-y-frân operation.  As such, it is considered to be a brownfield site for the purposes of the proposed allocation. The site complex continues into Merthyr Tydfil CBC area in two small parcels. It lies on the edge of the Ffos-y-frân reclamation and opencast scheme and has its own railhead providing direct access to the rail network. Other associated industrial / mineral land uses have been accommodated in the past. Aggregate handling and despatch, rail transport related waste management facilities and other appropriate employment activities relying on the railhead facility and satisfying the sustainability principles of the Plan would be acceptable land uses on this site. A sliver of land within the allocated site has been identified as a SINC. Any future proposals should have regard to the presence of the SINC and provide sufficient mitigation in terms of any likely impact on this part of the site.