Simon Glyn News Today

Owain Williams is the founder of Llais Gwynedd and like many of the original members who were first elected in 2008, he is not standing this year.

Gwynedd Council asked the UK Government to recognise March 1 as a bank holiday but the idea was rejected.

A Welsh council has agreed to make Dydd Gwyl Dewi - St David’s Day - a bank holiday for its workers, despite the UK government’s rejection of…

Gwynedd Council has paid tribute to former councillor Penri Jones who passed away over the weekend.

TRIBUTES have been paid to a former chair of Gwynedd Council who ‘who gave a lifetime of service to her local community’.

The proposals for 20 Ala Road, Pwllheli form part of the authority\s recently announced housing action plan to provide affordable homes. Google Streetview. Plans to convert a Pwllheli home into two flats to help prevent homelessness have been approved despite local opposition. The proposals for 20, yr Ala form part of the authority’s recently announced housing action plan to provide affordable homes. According to the documents accompanying the application by Gwynedd Council’s housi...

Current, rejected and proposed plans for Tan y Mynydd, Mynydd Nefyn. Screengrab from planning documents. A decision on plans to extend a house dubbed “more suited for Beverly Hills than Mynydd Nefyn” has been kicked into the long grass for now. Meeting on Monday, members of Gwynedd Council’s Planning Committee was asked to approve the refurbishment and extension of Tan-y-Mynydd on Mynydd Nefyn. This follows the refusal of earlier proposals for the same property last September, wit...

Dewi Llewelyn Tributes have been paid to a former Bangor councillor following his sudden death over the weekend. Dewi Llewelyn was a member of Gwynedd Council, representing the Deiniol ward between 2004 and 2012, having also sat on Bangor City Council for several years. But after it was announced that he passed away over the weekend, Thursday’s full meeting saw Gwynedd Council’s new Council chairman lead the tributes to the former Plaid Cymru politician. Cllr Simon Glyn, chairing hi...

Morfa Nefyn Catholic Church. CREDIT - Copyright Alan Fryer geograph.org.uk Plans to build six new homes on the site of a Gwynedd catholic church have been unanimously refused by planners. In 2019, Gwynedd Council approved the demolition of the Resurrection of Our Saviour church in Morfa Nefyn after it fell victim to a sweeping closure programme  announced by the Bishop of Wrexham in 2016. The church was built in 1967-68 in light of the increasing number of summer visitors to the area, ...