Vale of Glamorgan Council is considering all possible options to ensure long-promised community facilities are delivered as part of the Barry Waterfront development.

The Waterfront Consortium, consisting of national housebuilders Persimmon Homes, Taylor Wimpey and Barratt Homes, has previously been granted planning permission for this project.

However, while new properties continue to be built and sold at pace, very little progress has been made on other important elements of the scheme.

Green spaces, parks and footpaths are still to be finished, whilst roads remain in a partially-completed state.

 The Council has held regular discussions with the Consortium regarding these matters and continues to press for a commitment on their delivery.

 Cllr Lis Burnett, Leader of the Vale of Glamorgan Council, said: "Time and again the Waterfront Consortium has made it clear that it has no interest in delivering the community components of this development.

"There has been a catalogue of broken promises and weak excuses for the lack of progress, yet, remarkably, these issues do not seem to be affecting the developers' house-building programme.

"The only conclusion is that the Waterfront Consortium does not care about community. It builds houses not homes, is interested in profit not people, and creates properties not vibrant, attractive places to live.

 "Enough is enough. Waterfront residents deserve better, and we are not prepared to simply stand by and accept this treatment.

"The consortium is not only in breach of its legal obligations, but also local and national government polices around placemaking.

 "Other parts of the country also seem to be suffering from a similar approach, with media reports indicating a local Council in Essex has taken legal action against the same developers after they failed to deliver community facilities on a major development there.

"As a Council, we will do everything in our power to hold developers to account and make sure they honour their commitments."

The Council has previously had to take action against the Waterfront Consortium to ensure a complex of shops, bars and restaurants known as the District Centre was built, while the new St Baruc school was completed only after the Council threatened legal action.

Several areas of public space at the waterfront, including children's play areas, need attention, as does land approved for a park at East Quay, which currently contains a mound of earth.

A green area at the Cliff Top, near Barry Island Primary School, is still to be created, while the standard of open space in other areas is poor, with inadequate planting and little maintenance.

Safety improvements also need to be made on a section of road along Ffordd Y Millennium before the Council can take responsibility for it.