📢 IMPORTANT UPDATE: MORE TIME TO OBJECT – RM/2026/2 Penrhos Coastal Park.
Following yesterday’s email from Sion Hughes, Senior Planning Officer at Isle of Anglesey County Council, the deadline for submitting comments and objections on application RM/2026/2 has been extended.
Comments will now be accepted right up until the date the Planning Committee deliberates on the application, so we have much longer than the usual 21 days.
✅ PLEASE NOTE:
You do not need to rush to submit your objections.
The Save Penrhos administration team will be publishing a letter shortly, drafted with proper legal and planning reasons for objection.
BUT THIS LETTER MUST NOT BE COPIED VERBATIM! YOU MUST USE YOUR OWN WORDS.
Why this matters:
Comments must be based on planning policy and legal grounds, statements such as “it’s a lovely place”, “I walk there every day”, or “there are red squirrels” are important, ( important to us yes!), but on their own they do not count as formal reasons to refuse the application. They must be all legal.
The letter we provide will include all the correct policy references and valid concerns, including the removal of public access, outdated surveys, infrastructure gaps, and viability issues, so your submission carries full weight.
We will share it here as soon as it is ready. Thank you for your continued support to protect Penrhos!
*EVIDENCE OF EXTRA TIME IS IN EMAIL I RECEIVED BELOW FROM SION HUGHES LEADING PLANNING OFFICER ACC.
#SavePenrhos #PenrhosCoastalPark #RM20262 #Anglesey #CommunityOwnership #ProtectOurCoast
Today's story... 'Fridges in the Forest'.😭
We really do have some lazy and selfish idiots in this country. This should be a minimum £5,000 automatic fine. One political party has adopted our proposal, let's hope the others have the courage and common sense to follow.
We couldn’t have a yellow ribbon day without at least one yellow ribbon for
the father of Penrhos Nature reserve
Mr Ken Williams OBE
If you feel his dream should be fought for please support us to #SavePenrhos nature reserve !
Always so much to see at penrhos as this beautiful clip by Val Hughes shows https://t.co/5oWMgdtOge
As well as the photos show penrhos and it’s beauty as usual
📸Shirley Blease
Good news! After decades of ignoring rampant environmental crime on the Roding, @EnvAgency has finally decided to act.
Bad news! It’s not against Thames Water for illegally dumping billions of litres of sewage in the Roding, or the waste criminals who have dumped thousands of tonnes of rubbish on its banks, but against myself & a small volunteer charity for… restoring a river without a permit!
Within a week of the magnificent work of River Roding Trust volunteers completing the arduous work of restoring 250 metres of the Aldersbrook this winter, EA investigators had been down to the site and rattled off a letter threatening us with prosecution for doing the work without a permit. This is despite the fact that the Trust have repeatedly asked the EA to do this vital work on the Aldersbrook themselves & they have refused. It is also despite the fact that they have not investigated the huge illegal sewage outlet on the Cranbrook a few hundred metres away, which illegally discharges 750,000,000 litres of raw sewage straight into the River Roding every year.
Penrhos, home to Red squirrels here’s a beautiful close up of a red !
The second photo shows part of the SSSI that sides onto Penrhos showing yet again the importance of the area and why Penrhos should not be developed ! Map marks Beddmanarch – Cymyran SSSI in red
📸David Jones & Mark williams
📌 LOOK AT THE DIFFERENCE, THE PLANS FOR PENRHOS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES!🤬
We have placed these two maps side-by-side so you can see exactly what is being proposed now, compared to the outline plan that was approved back in 2016.
Cavendish Consultancy claim there are only minor changes, but we are saying loud and clear that the changes are significant, damaging, and completely alter what was agreed. In fact, the changes are so great that a completely new application should have been submitted, rather than trying to pass this off as a minor update. The maps and the details show exactly why:
✅ A massive brand-new hub building (marked in white) has been added, this was never part of the original 2016 agreement.
✅ Lodges have been moved to new locations, and the density is far higher, far more crowded than planned.
✅ Large areas of trees are set to be cleared, including precious ancient trees that are central to this nature reserve.
✅ Car parking has jumped drastically: from 600 spaces originally, to 1,000 spaces in the latest application.
✅ They have completely withdrawn the promise of 75 acres of woodland that was meant to be kept open for public use. This means we will effectively have zero access to the main woodland areas to walk and enjoy. The only space left will be the narrow strip along the very edge, the Welsh Coastal Path, which they legally cannot take away.
✅ Many of the Section 106 mitigation measures that were agreed to protect and benefit the area have also been removed.
✅ Gone too is the committed £20 million funding that was promised for local services, money our community desperately needs.
This is not a small adjustment. This is a total transformation of Penrhos, stripping away nature, ancient woodland, public access, agreed protections, and vital funding. It is nothing like what was approved or promised.
We need everyone to see these facts, understand exactly what is at stake, and keep standing with us to save this special place.
👇 Please share this post widely so that more people can see the truth behind these new plans.
#SavePenrhos #PenrhosNatureReserve #ProtectOurWoodland #StopTheOverdevelopment #PublicAccessMatters #KeepOurPromises
We’ve shared this photo of one of our red squirrels at penrhos before but it’s truly beautiful in our eyes .
Take a good look at each photo which appeals more to you ? An iconic endangered Red Squirrel or a generic prefabricated wooden and glass building ? We know what we prefer , we don’t understand how anyone could want to replace the habitat of a red squirrel with that !
📸David Jones
Everywhere you turn at Penrhos there is a plant,a bird ,or a folly to discover,But for how long? Why destroy a place that brings tourists into the area ? They come because of the wildlife, beauty and tranquility! Let’s protect our best assets!
A few jobs won’t ever be worth the destruction of penrhos !
📸Karen Sparrow,Pauline Hardman and Tim Owen .
Transparency isn't optional, it’s vital.
Wes Streeting has accepted £224k+ in private health donations, a blatant conflict of interest.
We're going to be investigating the private meetings between policy makers and healthcare reps.
Support our investigation: link in bio.
@nfueast@EssexPoliceUK@Robyn_Munt@SamJPimblett There’s a huge problem here in Lincolnshire with coursers and there was a very effective cross county operation to deal with it. However Lincs has reduced wildlife police team to save their tiny budget. So you’d have to expect the problem will only get worse here
Thank God my security staff were on hand in Shetland to rough up this 75 year old man who tried to take a photo of my chauffeur driven car parked in a disabled bay.
Yet more reasons to save penrhos
#butterflies and #bluetits seen yesterday at Penrhos we cannot let developers demolish this beautiful place please help us save Penrhos by supporting Harri and Zach’s fundraiser let’s get them to £6500 today https://t.co/csOF9k4dmM
#springtime #SavingOurGreenSpaces
📸Tim Owen
One of the best places to #Relax on a #SundayAfternoon the sights and sounds and smells of Penrhos nature reserve include #bluebells#RedSquirrels#wildgarlic and much more ! As you walk through the woods to the shoreline it’s a magical place which is why we are fighting to #SavePenrhos from destruction!
📸val Hughes & David Jones