Madam,

Can anyone explain the workings of the planners supposedly taking care of our area?

Permission was granted for 25 luxury holiday homes on the old Pistyll hotel site, Pistyll farm, Pistyll, now named Natures Point – good Welsh name.

The first unit is now for sale for £750,000 the others between £360,000 and £470,000. This is the creation of a new village larger than the existing Pistyll hamlet. I use the word village, but as with Abersoch it’s more of an enclave for the rich.

Will the name be changed to ‘Little Cheshire on the headland’?

The developers’ sale pitch states ‘in this unspoilt area of outstanding natural beauty where planning consent for holiday homes for this scale is seldom granted’. Why was it granted?

How many local Welsh-speaking families will be living here? How many children attending the local Welsh-medium schools? The planners in the past have been very keen to make sure local housing needs were included when new developments were given permission.

An application for 366 homes in Bangor was refused because of concerns over the effect on the Welsh language, using new planning rules designed to protect Welsh.

Further, the Welsh Language Society stated housing developments should ‘put communities first’. How on earth did they pass Natures Point?

Where is the protection here for this unique area of OSNB with its strong sense of identity, language and community spirit?

The planning processes are seriously flawed!

Yours etc,

A Wilson, 22 Sand Street, Pwllheli.

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