Coed Bach

  Job Creation

 The Coedbach Action Team wants to maximise job creation in the Gwendraeth Valley to combat the effects of recession in the local area.

 

The Coedbach site at Kidwelly already has planning permission for B2 Industry and B8 storage and distribution.

 

If you compare the potential for job creation at Coedbach with what is already in place at Llanelli workshops and Trostre Industrial Estate which contains similar types of industry to what has been approved and are a smaller size to Coedbach, you will see that far more jobs will be created by developing the 30 industrial units with approval, not 1 power station: 

 

            At Llanelli and Trostre Workshops there are over 80 companies employing an estimated +600 people on a site which is smaller than Coedbach

 

The planning application S/16781 states that up to 90 jobs will be created by the proposal.

 

Having visited both Lockerbie and Ely we believe that this claim is seriously incorrect:

             Biomass power station                       Direct jobs created

Ely 38 mw                                             28 (information from Plant Manager)

             Lockerbie 44mw                                  28 (3 x 6 shifts + office staff of 8-10)

 

As our representatives on Carmarthenshire County Council how many jobs do you support at Coedbach?

 

           Planning approval for +600 jobs through development of industrial units on the site or

           Planning requested for circa 30 for 1 highly automated power station

 

We ask you to say NO to S/16781 Coedbach power station. 

 

    Impact on Transport

 

The proposed power station at Coedbach will use +500,000 tonnes pa of wood.  The developer is proposing to bring in 75% or 375,000 tonnes by rail and 125,000 tonnes by road.  The road impact of this is +70 hgv movements per day or one lorry every 8 minutes. 

 

We don’t think that wood delivery to the site will happen this way. 

 

Why?  The photographs above show the flooded railway line between Kidwelly and Coedbach.  The railway is in a C2 flood zone and over a 3 month period that we have photographed it has remained flooded. 

 

What is the implication of 100% Transport to the site by road?

 

This would mean that hgv movements would quadruple to 1400 per week; 280 per day or one hgv every 2 minutes. 

 

For example – if your constituents live along any of the transport routes to Coedbach from Swansea we think this will have a dramatic impact upon their lives eg Swansea - Trostre - Llanelli - Stradey - Pwll - Burry Port  - Pembrey - Coedbach.

 

We believe that this will have major public safety and pollution implications which have not been considered in the application.

 

We ask you to say NO to S/16781 Coedbach power station.