6 residential units at 8 Paget Road, Barry
Summary of planning committee decision
Decided by Glamorgan Planning Committee on 9 Oct 2025.
No officer report was published for this decision; this summary is from the committee minutes.
What was proposed
The application sought to vary conditions on approved plans, balconies and parking for a conversion creating six residential units.
“Variation of Conditions – Condition 2 (Approved Plans), 6 (Balconies), 7 (Parking Provision) of Planning Permission Ref. 2022/01185/FUL: Proposed change of use and conversion of the first and second floor and extension of The Merrie Friars building (8 and 9, Paget Road, Barry Island) to create six residential units (five additional) at 8 Paget Road, Barry.”
Minutes
Deferred and called in
The application had been deferred and was called in by Councillor S.D. Perkes because of the importance of the regeneration scheme it supports.
“This application was initially deferred from the Planning Committee of 11 th September, 2025 to allow for approval of the application subject to a schedule of conditions. The application had to be determined by Planning Committee under the Council’s approved scheme of delegation because it had been called-in by Councillor S.D. Perkes. The reason provided “due to the importance of the regeneration area that this development scheme is in.”
Minutes
The committee approved the application
Planning permission was approved subject to conditions.
“TRIM – Planning 2025 October 09 Minutes and DN (MT) APPROVED subject to the following condition(s):”
Minutes
Noise insulation to be tested
Sound insulation had to meet set noise levels, tested before occupation, with occupation stopping if required remedial work was not done.
“The building shall be adapted so as to provide sound insulation against both airborne and impact noise to achieve the following noise levels:”
“Following completion of the proposed development and prior the first beneficial occupation of any of the units, a sound test of the premises shall be undertaken by a suitably qualified acoustician and a test report submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority.”
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Privacy screens on balconies
Units could not be occupied until roof terraces and balconies had privacy screens built and approved, to be kept in place permanently.
“Notwithstanding the submitted plans and details, no unit shall be occupied until the proposed roof terrace and balconies which serve them have been constructed, are available for the occupiers to use, and 1.8m high obscurely glazed privacy screens (using obscured glass to a minimum of level 3 of the "Pilkington" scale of obscuration) have been erected along their sides, in accordance with the details that have first been submitted to and approved by…”
“TRIM – Planning 2025 October 09 Minutes and DN (MT) the Local Planning Authority. Once erected, the privacy screens shall also thereafter be retained for the lifetime of the development.”
Minutes
Sources
- Glamorgan Planning Committee minutes, 9 October 2025
- Agenda and papers (council website)
Source: Plota analysis of Glamorgan's committee minutes. Quotations are the council's own words; headings and summaries are Plota's.
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