Madam,

Referring to Colin Mackie’s letter (last week’s Cambrian News), like him all of our group, SLVSSB, and the vast majority of people in Llanbedr (and the Assembly and the UK Government) support the proposed northern access road to the airfield and Shell Island. This is exactly as Colin suggests. It would siphon off to the north and west much of the traffic, eg the glider pilots, who now get jammed at the centre of the village.

The key issue is to drop Gwynedd Council’s ludicrous proposed southern bypass, and our group’s flyer shows on page six its likely impact, a rare piece of environmental vandalism. Like Colin, we are all keenly committed to the great variety of employment which the northern access road will bring. Notably in sunrise industries like drone development.

Colin is perhaps unaware that the bypass has long been debated (since 1948!). There was a heated, hostile and well-attended meeting on 24 July 2015, reported in the Cambrian News, which caused Gwynedd Council to rethink. The leader of the county council said that he would never again attend a meeting in the village. He now admits that the environmental costs in CO2 and carcinogenic micro-particulates of building this expensive “bypass to nowhere” have not been calculated.

We will try to get access to the community council website to display people’s suggestions to tackle the serious traffic jams in the village. And the prizes are £200 each as described in my letter of 31 March. Colin has not yet won either prize!

Discussion with the community is a legal requirement under the Weltag rules. This is local democracy. It is as vital to our village’s future as is the forthcoming referendum on EU membership to the UK.

Yours etc

Graham Tottle,Secretary, SLVSSB (Save Llanbedr Village. Stop the Southern Bypass)

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Llanbedr.