POWYS County Council is “pressing on” with plans for a traveller site in Machynlleth despite a consultation process with residents in the town not having yet begun, a town councillor has claimed.

Cllr Gareth Jones has hit out at the county council for their “dismissive” attitude toward residents after revealing that the authority has asked Machynlleth Golf Club if it would sell the land which is home to the current site and is the preferred option for an extended site.

The county council is due to begin a consultation with residents shortly over the preferred option that would see work at the current site to enable more travellers to live there.

But Cllr Jones insisted that the plans are already being progressed before that consultation has even begun, despite Machynlleth town councillors being given assurances in their October meeting that a full consultation will be held with residents in the town .

Cllr Jones said: “Since then there has been a deafening silence from Powys County Council. To date nobody in the Dyfi Valley has received any contact regarding the consultation."

ad won assurances from Powys Council representatives that a full consultation would be held, with letters sent to all households in the town, as well as outlying areas.

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