THE company behind a controversial plan to redevelop a Beddgelert campsite has offered to pay to help keep the village’s public toilets open, the Cambrian News can reveal.

Forest Holidays has this week disclosed that it offered to help cover the estimated £4,000 needed to keep Beddgelert’s public toilets open after cash-strapped Gwynedd Council called for expressions of interest from potential corporate sponsors to keep facilities open across the county.

The firm has encountered resistance to its plans for 16 cabins, up to 59 touring pitches and 26 camping pitches. Beddgelert Community Council opposed the plans in January.

A petition entitled Save Beddgelert Forest Campsite, which calls on Snowdonia National Park to refuse the application, has gained almost 3,500 signatures.

Forest Holidays expressed an interest in supporting the toilets on 22 March when the community council said it could not afford the costs. Forest Holidays also declared an interest — its active planning application — with the council.

Forest Holidays maintains that the offer is not dependent on the outcome of the application.

Read the full story in this week’s Arfon/Dwyfor edition of the Cambrian News