IT wasn’t quite ‘planes, trains and automobiles’ for Joyce Watson AM, as she talked planes, buses and mobile homes in Gwynedd.

In a series of meetings in the county, the Labour mid and west Wales regional member visited a local park home site, discussed the future of Snowdonia’s airfield and welcomed the launch of a free bus travel scheme.

She also met with Gwynedd councillors and officers in Harlech to catch up on town planning developments.

Funded by Welsh Government, as of last Saturday (8 July), people can travel for free on the weekend on all TrawsCymru buses. The extensive network includes the T2 (Aberystwyth – Dolgellau – Bangor) and T3 (Wrexham – Llangollen – Dolgellau – Barmouth) services. The pilot project will run until at least May 2018.

Neil Collis, owner of Harlech’s Pant Mawr Residential Park, invited Mrs Watson to meet him to talk about proposed changes to fees on the sale of park homes.

Welsh Government is consulting on whether the maximum commission rate of 10%, currently chargeable on the sale of park homes, should be retained, changed or abolished.

At Llanbedr airfield, Joyce discussed with site manager Jason Coleman, Gwynedd Council’s Nia Swann Bowden and Rob Walter of QinetiQ the development of the facility, including plans to improve site access from the A496.

She also caught up on Llanbedr’s ambitious bid to host the UK’s first spaceport.

Mrs Watson, who chairs the Assembly’s construction industry cross-party group, also organised a meeting with newly-elected Harlech councillor Freya Bentham and council officers to discuss ongoing town planning matters, centring on the future of Coleg Harlech’s Wern Fawr site and the dilapidated St David’s Hotel.

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