Anglesey Land and Lakes: Holiday village £4m deal stalls

The £120m Land and Lakes projects covers three sites around Holyhead

A deal to invest £4m in an Anglesey town as part of a £120m holiday village development has been deferred.

The Land and Lakes lodge resort was given planning permission in 2013 - subject to the developers agreeing to pay towards community projects.

Councillors signalled support for much of the programme at a meeting in June.

But on Wednesday, the island's planning committee raised fresh concerns, focusing on plans to house nuclear workers building a new plant at Wylfa.

The Land and Lakes project would see about 500 lodges and leisure facilities built at Penrhos, a country park on land that was owned by the town's former Anglesey Aluminium plant.

A further 300 lodges would be built at neighbouring Cae Glas and housing at a site in the Kingsland area of the town.

As part of proposals, nuclear construction workers would be housed in lodges at Cae Glas

Councillors wanted guarantees that the Cae Glas part of the project would only go ahead if it was to house construction workers for a new Wylfa Newydd power station.

But some members of the planning committee said there was no certainty, as yet, that the new nuclear plant would be built.

Concerns were also raised about the cost of decontaminating the Cae Glas land, which sits next to the former aluminium works.

A final decision on whether to approve the £4m community investment programme will now be taken at a later date.