County Councillor And Conwy’s Licensing & Planning Committees Forbidden From Debating His Public-Right-of-way Application!

A reader from St George alerted us to this article on Facebook under the  Conwy County Council Watch  site.

To be honest the council are spot on to have stopped Woods from debating his own application when he is also a member of the Planning Committee. 

If he had been allowed then all members of the public should be allowed to debate their own applications.

I feel really sorry for the Castle Trust with this, they buy the castle which had fallen into a ruin, and people who had trespassed on the land for decades then try to force through their right to continue to do so!

I think the Welsh Government need to change the law on places that fall empty and then people trespass, for years and then try to claim it as their right to continue to do so!

The act is clear on the issue but more protection is needed for landowners, not trespassers or similar, the stress this must cause to the landowner must be huge, and the state of the land after people have been using it is often criminal, but well done to the council in this instance.

Below is the article...

Maybe interesting to Conwy CC C taxpayers??? Copied from the North Wales Pioneer:- ---------------------------------------------------------

""""""AN ABERGELE councilor who is a landowner and member of Conwy’s licensing and planning committees is forbidden from debating his public-right-of-way application on the grounds of a famous building.

Cllr Andrew Wood, THE Vice Chair of Conwy’s Licensing Committee, applied for four routes to be made public right of way on Gwrych Castle’s grounds in Abergele and Llanddulas.

Cllr Wood has made the application under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, and a special licensing committee meeting is set to take place on Monday, August 5 to decide the matter.

But council officers are recommending the committee refuses the application, following an Independent Report concluding there is insufficient evidence to support public-right-of-way routes."""""""""It's a longer read than this! """""------------------------------

IS this the same "on the planning committee" Councilor who wanted Conwy CC to pay for his private allotment toilets while He and the other County Councillors discussed and Will probably close 50% of our public toilets to save Money? --Interesting to say the least!! """