Conwy homes clear planning
Affordable housing will be developed at the former Welsh Government offices site on Dinerth Road, after a near-unanimous decision at committee.
Rhos-on-Sea, Colwyn Bay is the location, and Dewis Architecture the designer.
The applicant Cartrefi Conwy, a registered social landlord, now has the go-ahead to develop 48 affordable homes at the site, which has been vacant since 2018 and comes in at around 4.6 acres.
As set out in the officer report, the application site currently hosts a single building with a series of six wings and a separate ancillary building set amongst areas of grass and hardstanding. The former government buildings were a wartime construction erected in 1942, originally as emergency hospital wards.
Post-war the building has been used by various municipal entities, including Conwy Council itself from 2011 to 2018. The building is not listed.
Cartrefi Conwy proposes semi-detached and detached houses and bungalows arranged in clusters fronting two access roads running through the site, providing access to and from Dinerth Road, and a new access entrance onto Princess Avenue.
In the centre of the site are proposed apartment buildings. Two areas of open space are proposed, and an active travel route through the site. Four homes will be detached.
The breakdown:
- Nine one-bed cottage apartments
- Three two-bed cottage apartments
- Four one-bed bungalows
- Five two-bed bungalows
- 16 two-bed houses
- 10 three-bed houses
- One five-bed house
Documents relating to the project can be viewed on Conwy Council’s planning portal, reference 0/53030.
