Madam,

Thank you for publishing the article about the flooding of Biblical proportions of Llanbedr if the bypass scheme goes ahead. We need to thank whoever was responsible for bringing to everyone’s attention that such a possible catastrophe could take place (even though the area where the new road is supposed to go be going is mainly underwater for most of the winter and it would be permanently under water if there wasn’t an existing flood dyke).

I am sure no-one in the village or Gwynedd Council, after spending thousands on a survey, could ever have realised just how serious a new bypass would be for flooding.

Thanks, to probably the same group, for warning the village of the impending by-pass scheme in the first place, as obviously no-one had ever heard of a Llanbedr by-pass before. And of course no one bothered to go to the Gwynedd Council consultation meetings about the scheme, so how could we know? I hadn’t realised that the majority of people in the village were against the scheme, or was that overwhelming number of people? Well it must be a lot.

The catastrophic consequences of a bypass don’t end there - it seems that Llanbedr will become a backwater, a ghost town shunned by tourists coming to Wales. You probably won’t even be able to find it on the internet.

Then what about the pollution? We just didn’t realise how much more pollution you get from an open road than in a congested village. Of course the ecological impact will bring disaster to the area.

So after spending all that money - it was £9 million, but already before any sod is lifted it seems to have risen to £12 million, - we are told it will be obsolete before it’s finished due to robotic lorries. I can’t wait for that one.

But I am sure help is at hand for the brave souls battling the bypass because we are told Billy the Box from Fishguard is on his way to sort out Gwynedd Council and I wouldn’t be surprised if Swampy of the Newbury Bypass fame could come and help their cause.

So out on the streets everyone with your placards; show true democracy, oppose the big bad bypass.

Get a petition going, yes petition the village, then you would really know just how much the people of Llanbedr are against the bypass.

But hurry up before the village is visited by “a plague on all your houses” Sorry Shakespeare, but it’s topical.

Personally a bypass wouldn’t affect me one way or the other, especially as I don’t need a job down that airfield Enterprise place.... but I wouldn’t want to be visited by a plague.

Yours etc

Roger Payne

Gilfach Goch

Llanbed