AN APPLICATION for a permanent residential site for gypsies and travellers near St Asaph has been submitted.

The site is on the Green-gates East Farm site. The applicants are Denbighshire County Council.

The proposal involves creating a permanent residential gypsy and traveller site with a maximum of six pitches on the Green-gates East site on Cwttir Lane, to serve an extended family already living within the county.

Cllr Peter Scott, mayor of St Asaph, said: "The city council continue to disagree with the way the site was allocated.

"We urge all residents to submit their views.

"People of St Asaph gave their views at the pre-consultation stage in a petition with over 4000 signatures and over 700 written objections. We will continue to fight this application on the grounds that the methodology to locate this site was flawed."

The Council has been undertaking activities and land-based assessments in recent months to progress the submission of the planning application for the permanent residential Gypsy and Traveller site, at Green-gates.

The local authority has ruled out Cwttir Lane and the area around St Asaph Business Park for a Gypsy and Traveller transit site, and agreed that proposed locations for the transit site should be considered as part of the Local Development Plan (LDP) process).

Cllr Mark Young, Cabinet Lead Member for Planning, Public Protection and Safer Communities said: “This has been a long process and the proposals have already been through a rigorous pre-planning consultation and numerous scrutiny meetings internally. We have also held drop-in sessions and the proposals have been the subject of significant debate locally and in the media.

“We are now in a position to formally consult on the planning proposals.

"Once the consultation ends, a summary of the formal responses to the consultation will be reported to Planning Committee."

Anyone wanting to submit their views online can search the planning application number 46/2019/0792 at www.denbighshire.gov.uk/planning

A spokesperson for Denbighshire County Council said: "Any previous submissions to the pre-planning application consultation exercise will not be considered as part of the formal planning process, therefore interested individuals must submit their comments again, in writing."