New Mochdre Park could be part of locality plan

Jul 14 2011 by Richard Evans, North Wales Weekly News

A NEW children’s park could be the first phase of a new plan for Mochdre.

A locality plan is being drawn up by the council for the village as well as Rhos-on-Sea detailing potential ways in which the area can be improved.

The plan will look at how projects can be funded through pots such as Welsh Government regeneration money available as part of the strategic regeneration area.

Cllr Adrian Tansley has been working on the plan and is looking at a new children’s play area on a strip of grass off Orme Road in addition to the existing play area on Station Road. Cllr Tansley is also looking at traffic management on the privately owned forecourt in front of Mochdre’s shops on Conway Road.

“The park area is an ideal site and a safe place for kids to play,” he said.

“People have asked for a skate park, football pitches, swings, a climbing frame and benches for parents. It is all about creating communities to be proud of.

“We haven’t got many green areas children can play on. I think it would be an ideal site mums could go and sit with their children.

“The park would be gated and I’ve already got volunteers who have offered to help lock up in the evening.”

Vicky Stott, 29, lives near the piece of land with her husband Ben Stott, 31, and their four children Callum, 12, Bayleigh, nine, Bobby-Jack, six, and Amelia, four. Vicky said the piece of land would be ideal.

“Having four children myself, it would be perfect,” she said.

“You would know they are safe and not near the main road. The bigger park on Station Road is too far away. It would be nice to have something a bit different from the big park with different apparatus, something colourful and nice and maybe some football pitches for the bigger boys.”

Not as straightforward are plans to improve the traffic management of delivery vehicles using the forecourt of Mochdre’s shops on Conway Road. The land is in private ownership and there is an ongoing dispute between shopkeepers over the safety of vehicles parking on the land. Conwy County Council has stated in the past it is powerless to intervene.

A spokeswoman for Conwy County Council confirmed both plans had been put forward for inclusion in the area’s locality plan.

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