Gwynedd

Travelodge, the UK’s first budget hotel chain, has approached 12 local authorities across Wales in search of new partners for a local regeneration scheme, seven of which have been pioneered in England.

Councillors at Gwynedd and the Isle of Anglesey councils have agreed a joint local development plan outlining a new planning policy for future land use and development for the period 2011-2026.

Members of the Gwynedd County Council planning committee have stuck to their guns and refused a 366-home scheme in Bangor. They say it breached national and local policy on Welsh language issues.

A round-up of planning news in Wales: 11 April-17 April, 2015