Residents have set up an action group because they fear plans are being pushed forward to site an animal incinerator near Salem Chapel in Llanbedr.

Objectors are urging Snowdonia National Park to reject the planning application for a patch of land known as ‘the kennels’, located near the Artro river and the historic Salem Chapel, which they believe could be used to house and run an incinerator.

Locals who formed the Cyfeillion Cwm Nantcol Friends group say that the land and its surrounding areas – Cwm Nantcol, Pentre Gwynfryn and Llanbedr – would be vulnerable to noise, pollution and congestion if an application for a working incinerator was to be approved.

An application has been submitted by Cymru Lân Cyf, a fallen stock and disposal business which operates over a large area of north Wales.

The current application is for the demolition of existing outbuildings and the erection of a new building for the use as a fallen stock collection service. But it is unclear whether the application will also intend to follow through on a previous planning permission, granted in 2005, which was to incinerate animal carcasses in the area.

Now residents have formed an action group that seeks to clarify what exactly is happening on the land and what impact the application might have.

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