Campaigners have launched a legal challenge against plans to turn a nature reserve into a £100m holiday village with 500 holiday chalets in the poorest place in North Wales. Whilst planning permission for a new holiday resort at Penrhos Coastal Park in Holyhead, Anglesey was initially given back in 2016, local campaigners say the original planning consent is flawed - and have arranged for a solicitor to write to Anglesey Council in a bid to halt the development.
Campaigners say it's vitally important they stop the holiday village being built as it would be an "environmental catastrophe" for the island, particularly as the development would sit in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and could threaten the habitat of rare red squirrels, which have made a home for themselves in the 27-acre woodland. Their protests have garnered the support of hundreds of local people - and a string of celebrities too, including presenters Carol Vorderman, Joanna Lumley and Iolo William and singer Dafydd Iwan.
In a new letter to Anglesey Council, campaigners say the planning permission granted to Cumbria-based development company Land & Lakes back in 2016 should have been acted-upon by August 22, 2022 - and say the company missed this deadline and should therefore not be able to move forward with their development plans, as reported by our sister site NorthWalesLive.
