Burry Port supermarket gets planning OK
Outline planning permission has been granted for a supermarket in Burry Port under the Llanelli Joint Venture. A meeting of Carmarthenshire County Council’s planning committee considered plans submitted by the local authority’s head of corporate property for a foodstore and petrol filling station on land alongside Neptune Buildings, Burry Port. An officers’ report to the committee said that the site was reasonably located in terms of local facilities, which included a variety of shops in the main Station Road area of the town centre to the north, whilst regular bus services operated in the area around the site. The application site is within the defined town centre area of Burry Port and is designated as a Planning and Development Brief Site. National planning policy is the development of a modern, attractive and vibrant waterfront urban area, which stretches from Port Talbot in the east through to Burry Port in the west taking in Neath, Swansea and Llanelli. The Plan recognises that t...