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Planning and the Gower AONB

The Gower Society has provided this page to help you to do something about plans you do not like.

If you think someone is carrying out building or other works without permission this Swansea page should help

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What does the Gower Society do?

One of the Gower Society's duties is to trawl through all of the Planning Applications made within the City and County of Swansea. A specialist team then selects a list of planning applications that it feels may affect the AONB and its adjacent areas, and looks at them in detail at the Civic Centre. A report of its observations on this list is then presented to the main Committee of the Gower Society where a decision is made.

Our decisions are always based on current legislation, on the current Unitary Development Plan and what we believe to be in the best interests of the AONB.
The Swansea Civic Society tends to look at the more urban areas.

When we have considered them carefully, the Gower Society may decide:

We will not be posting the Gower Society’s response on this web site or anywhere else.

Members receive printed programmes, Newsletters, and a Journal

Why not join us and help to protect Gower.

Help for your actions

Extracts from the weekly list of the most relevant planning applications will be put on the next page of the web-site. The fact that they are listed doesn’t mean that the Gower Society is necessarily going to object to, or comment on, or even examine them.

You might find some planning applications apply to your neighbourhood.

If you have concerns about any application, you may wish to:

  1. contact your Community Council to seek their views and to find out whether they intend to act
  2. contact your City and County of Swansea Councillor. This may result in the plan being considered by the Planning Committee and not being determined by the planning officers.
  3. write to the local authority yourself stating your concerns. You need to make it clear that you have seen the plans and that you are familiar with the site.
    (Mr Lock, Planning Control Manager, Civic Centre, Swansea SA1 3SN)
  4. interest others in the application. The more letters objecting to an application the better. A petition is not as useful but it could mean that the application is not determined by the planning officers.