Apartments at former Royal Naval Club lined up for approval

A proposed apartments scheme at the site of a former Royal Naval Association Club in a Rhondda town could soon secure approval.MADE Architecture is proposing a residential development of 22 one and two-bedroom apartments, with associated landscaping, boundary treatment and parking on 233 Court Street, Tonypandy.Formerly occupied by the Royal Naval Association Club, its disused buildings were gutted by fire in 2005 and were subsequently demolished.Now the site is vacant and unallocated for any specific use. The land and remains of the club’s foundations and retaining walls are overgrown with vegetation.It is proposed that the accommodation would be arranged over six floors, including the basement, ground, first, second, third and fourth floor.An officer’s report for Rhondda Cynon Taf Council’s planning committee on 5 October recommends granting permission for the development, subject to conditions.The report said that the proposed market apartments would be an appropriate land use, given the surrounding residential development.It added that it would regenerate a long vacant brownfield site in a prominent position and would contribute to the variety of the local housing mix.