A popular farm park has won planning permission to retain a high railway bridge on its land despite neighbours saying their privacy is disturbed by visitors walking over it and looking into their gardens. Cefn Mably Farm Park in Michaelston-y-Fedw between Cardiff and Newport has been granted permission to retain its "more substantial" bridge that the train passes under.
The farm, owned by Rhys Edwards, also applied to Newport City Council for retention of its pedestrian track through the farm, additional railway crossings and its miniature golf course - but none were as controversial as plans to raise the bridge - which had already been developed while the farm awaited news from the planning department. All requests have now been granted.
A planning document submitted by Barry Davies on behalf of the farm reads: “The footbridge of the existing narrow gauge railway is now constructed to be deeper, and overall has a more substantial appearance. The tunnel is finished with vertical and horizontal substantial timbers. A grass roof and substantial horizontal … railway sleepers bolted into the structure of the footway. A five-bar fence extends across both sides of the elevated footway.”
