Museum project to start this month in Llandudno

A final decision on the zoo’s expansion, including a new home for its snow leopards, will be made next week after Conwy’s planning committee backed the proposals against officer recommendation.

The council's planning officers have backed the demolition of the zoo’s existing snow leopard enclosure but have recommended a replacement facility for refusal, arguing it would encroach on to designated green belt.

The trustees of visitor attraction Bodelwyddan Castle near Rhyl have put the 125-year lease they hold on a large part of the property up for sale, with advisor LSH suggesting possible uses as residential, educational or conferencing.

Reports in Japan have raised questions over the future of the £20bn Wylfa Newydd nuclear plant on Anglesey with claims that the project’s main backer Hitachi could be set to back out.

Plans for an activity centre and 106-bedroom hotel at the Surf Snowdonia Adventure Parc can proceed after Conwy Council’s planning committee gave a “minded to approve” verdict yesterday.

The Government has put forward the slate landscape of North West Wales, focussed in Gwynedd, as its nomination for UNESCO World Heritage Status.

Denbighshire Council has appointed Balfour Beatty and JBA Consulting to draw up plans for an £18m sea defence programme along Rhyl’s promenade between Splash Point and the Rhyl Golf Club.

A design engineering contract has been launched for the Morlais Demonstration Zone tidal energy project off Anglesey.

The Japanese industrial giant is still in the frame to build a £20bn nuclear power plant at Wylfa on Anglesey after an extraordinary board meeting yesterday resolved to seek an agreement with the UK Government on the project.