PLANS to develop more housing in rural Anglesey is designed to meet “a need for affordable homes in the area,” developers claim.
The island’s council has received a full application to build nine dwellings, and to construct an internal access road with associated works off Mountain Road at Llanfechell.
The scheme being considered by Anglesey County Council planners, concerns land adjacent to Stad y Canon and has been made by Clwyd Alyn Housing through the agents Cadnant Planning.
If approved, the homes would be built on a 4717 square metre site, north of Stad y Canon, and includes 3490 square metres of greenfield land.
The application describes the building site as an”undeveloped parcel of land indicated previously to form part of future phase of residential development”.
The current phase of development involves the construction of nine dwellings, including two, two-bed three-person bungalows, four, two-bed four-person semi-detached two storey houses, one, four-bed seven – person two storey detached houses and two, three-bed five-person semi-detached two storey houses.
The proposal describe the homes with walls designed with a smooth render finish, natural slate roofs, windows and doors of grey uPVC, with close boarded fencing and gorse hedgerows.
All the properties would remain under the ownership of the ClwydAlyn Housing Association the application stated.
A housing needs survey had been carried by by Clwyd Alyn, in co-operation with the Rural Housing Enablers, looking at the Llanfechell, Carreglefn and Mynydd Mechell, the plans described.
The documents stated that it had identified “a need for social and intermediate rental housing in the area”.
It cited that on the social housing register there were 47 people registered for social housing in Llanfechell, 12 in Carreglefn, but none in Mynydd Mechell.
It also stated that the council had 25 social properties in Llanfechell, 12 in Carreglefn and none in Mynydd Mechell.
And Clwyd Alyn had 17 social properties in Llanfechell, and none in Carreglefn and Mynydd Mechell, it said.
“North Wales Housing currently has no social housing,” in the areas, nor did Grwp Cynefin, North Wales Housing, or Clwyd Alyn have any intermediate rent stock in the thre villages.” The plans noted.
It also stated that there was a limited number of homes for sale in the area avilable to people on the median income for the Talybolion ward area calculated at £34,423.
It presented figures from October, 2024, which stated there were 12 properties for sale on the open market in Llanfechell, six at Carreglefn and four in Mynydd Mechell.
There were also no properties to rent for the same date it had stated.
Figures in the plans showed the majority of the homes, ten of the 12, in Llanfechell, were priced above £200,000, with the highest at £695,000 and the two lowest two at £199,950 and £125,000.
Four of the five in Careglefn the figured showed were above £200,000 , with the highest at £725,000 and and there was only one below, at £175,000.
All were above, in Mynydd Mechell, with the highest home priced at £550, 000 and the lowest at £255,000.
The plans had concluded that most of the home were priced at a level that was “out of reach for individuals earning the median income for the Talybolion ward.”
