A Bow Street homeowner has plastered a wall at his property with graffiti in a bid to “embarrass” transport chiefs after becoming “frustrated” that his concerns over a multi-million-pound scheme are not being addressed.

Hefin Jones lives at Werndeg, a detached home near the planned Bow Street station interchange car park where work began in earnest this week.

The interchange plans, which will include railway platforms, car parks, bus stops and cycle racks, have been several years in the making, and Mr Jones said his concerns over privacy have been “ignored”.

After preliminary work began, a frustrated Mr Jones painted a sign on a wall near the site in big letters saying ‘NO STATION’.

Speaking to the Cambrian News this week, Mr Jones, who bought the property eight years ago, said: “There’s nothing I can do about it, it’s happening, but I guess I wanted to embarrass them a bit.

“I have been talking to them about my concerns since the start and they pretend they listen, but nothing is done.”

Mr Jones said the scheme will see a public footpath surrounding his home, with a car park right next to the garden, “totally impinging on my family’s privacy”.

He even offered to sell his home to aid the development, but said he has not heard back.

Improvement work that Mr Jones had started on his house has come to a halt after he said he now “lacked motivation” to finish it.

The Bow Street scheme was granted planning permission by Ceredigion County Council in September after delays, while the design was tweaked over flooding and access fears.

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