BUILDERS waste and rubble is due to be removed from open spaces at a new housing site before the developers hand over control of the land.
The Mill Meadows site in Sudbrook was described as a “beautiful location along the Severn Estuary” by Portskewett councillor Lisa Dymock who raised complaints at the state of the open spaces at Monmouthshire County Council’s March meeting.
She said residents have been “really concerned at waste and muck” along the open spaces which are due to be handed to the council and another area to a local management company.
She thanked the council’s Labour cabinet member responsible, Paul Griffiths, for visiting the site.
Cllr Griffiths said: “Residents and Cllr Dymock are absolutely right to want the areas in as good a condition as possible at the point of transfer.”
He said when he visited he saw new trees that were surrounded by rubble or muck and said council officers have been in talks with the developers to set out what work needs to be finished.
At the part of the site due to be handed over to the council it has agreed to clear some fly-tipping and also some redundant signage. Cllr Griffiths suggested he and Cllr Dymock should meet again to review what work is needed.
Conservative Cllr Dymock thanked the cabinet member and said he should bring his “umbrella and wellies”.
