Controversy is brewing over the reversal of a decision by planners not to go ahead with the upgrading of a road prior to the opening of a key recycling plant in Anglesey.
The population of Anglesey was furious that councillors had removed a condition that all road construction works ought to be done to expand a narrow access road at Penhesgyn close to the Menai Bridge.
This basically translates to mean that a past landfill can now begin operations as a waste recycling plant for the processing of waste from areas such as Conwy, Gwynedd and Anglesey before the upgrading of the road has been done.
Residents of the area are afraid that the new waste site will raise the amount of traffic on local roads. The people of Anglesey and Gwynedd already use a civic services site at Penhesgyn, where they dispose off their own household waste. But immediately the new and bigger recycling plant is opened the number of HGVs going to the site will rise by twenty eight, from a hundred and forty one to a hundred and sixty nine.
The Penhesgyn Action Group has already levelled accusations against the council for ignoring the sentiments of the local community. The Penhesgyn Action Group have said they will be writing to the Welsh Assembly in the hope that the Assembly will intervene.
The planners on the other hand denied ignoring the concerns of the local community. They also refuted fears that the increase in traffic would cause a rise in accidents.
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