Welsh Ministers have said they have been "completely ignored" over what has been called "wholly inappropriate" plans to shut a hotel in Snowdonia and use the building to house asylum seekers. Conwy Council has said that the hotel is not the right location for a refugee centre in such a rural area, citing a lack of medical centre and transport links among reasons.
Up to 200 asylum seekers are expected to be housed at the hotel near a village without a medial centre and railway station in an area with just 500 residents. Ministers have said this decision - which they have written to the Home Office about - would place extra burdens on local services.
Discussing the plans in the Senedd on Tuesday Afternoon, Lesley Griffiths, minister for rural affairs, North Wales and Trefnydd, said the Welsh Government had “no prior knowledge” of the decision. Ms Griffiths was standing in for First Minister Mark Drakeford who was absent after contracting coronavirus.
