PLANS to extend a supermarket distribution centre in Llanelli met with a mixed response when they were announced last week.
The CK’s distribution depot on Embankment Road is currently a single-storey warehouse building, with a number of shipping containers on the site.
The company has proposed to build a new single-storey warehousing unit, and add a first floor extension to the existing office area, along with works to the car park and façade. The total proposed area would be 800 square metres.
An application to Carmarthenshire County Council suggests that ten new full-time jobs would be created as a result of this expansion.
Local County Councillor Louvain Roberts has responded to the application by raising reservations about the proposal. These include noise levels early in the morning, emissions, overlooking of nearby old people’s bungalows, and the lack of a designated area for containers on the new plans. She has requested that the plans are discussed by CCC’s planning committee.
Other residents have also expressed concerns. One wrote that she ‘wholeheartedly objected’ to any expansion of the existing site.
“The current noise level early in the morning is already well above a reasonable level, frequently waking my household up,” she added.
“The building itself has already been expanded with the use of shipping containers, without consultation of the residents. It is an absolute eyesore. The mess that frequently covers the car park is unsightly and the site itself is a big attraction for anti-social behaviour.
“At its current functioning level this business would never be allowed to open up in a residential area and would be better placed to operate from an industrial site. To now ask the residents to put up with weeks of building work and an extension no doubt leading to more lorries, fork lifts and general disruption is unacceptable.”
Another resident of Westbury Street said that they were already inconvenienced from the noise from 6.30am and had suffered loss of privacy. In addition it was claimed that children crossed the yard to get to school.
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