A NEW year will bring with it a new landscape for a housing estate in Llanegryn.

Residents on Maesegryn will see considerable changes in front of their houses during the coming months, thanks to the work of Cartrefi Cymunedol Gwynedd and Snowdonia National Park Authority.

The housing estate was built in the 1940s and is home today to 24 Cartrefi Cymunedol Gwynedd tenants as well as a number of private residents.

For the first time, Snowdonia National Park Authority and Cartrefi Cymunedol Gwynedd have joined forces in a pilot project to look at different ways of managing the land for everyone’s benefit.

The main aim of this pioneering project is to bring visual benefits back to the community and residents of the Maesegryn estate.

Old concrete poles and grass will be removed and replaced by flowering grassland, new hedges and trees.

The work will include 266 metres of hedges and 25 trees planted this month, and nearly half a hectare of flowering grassland will be planted in spring.

The planted trees will include oak, hazel, maple and cherry blossom trees, and the hedges include a pleasing mix of elder, crab apple and hawthorn trees.

Rhys Owen, the national park’s head of conservation and agriculture said: “This is a pilot project looking at different ways of managing land and will ultimately bring benefits to everyone in the area.

“In providing a service such as this, not only will people of Maesegryn benefit, but it will also benefit wildlife and new habitats will be created.”

Read the full story in this Thursday’s Meirionnydd edition of the Cambrian News