April 10, 2024 - 364 views
Janet Finch-Saunders, Member of the Welsh Parliament for Aberconwy says she has been deeply concerned by the state of Llandudno’s North Shore following bad weather over the weekend.
Following Storm Kathleen, the North Shore has been left battered and bruised after huge swells of crashing waves caused thousands of quarry rocks on the beach to come raining down along the promenade.
Mrs. Finch-Saunders said: "Rocks the size of dinner plates were strewn across the pathway, covering its entire length and width, and posing a huge risk to people of Llandudno.
"A huge clean up operation is now underway with Conwy County Borough Council using tractors to bulldoze the rocks into piles which are then subsequently scooped up into a trailer and dumped back onto the beach.
“After years of warnings we are finally witnessing the dire consequences of that fateful decision back in 2014.
“In my many years of being a Llandudno resident I have never seen such destruction following a storm. If the beach had been returned to its sandy state, or better still not polluted in the first place, then this issue would simply have been avoided.
“The extensive operation now underway is completely ruining the otherwise tranquil and calm morning here today, with gigantic tractors scrapping their metal buckets along the concrete to remove the rocks. It is making an unbelievable racket, wasting vast amounts of diesel and costing, I assume, a considerable amount of taxpayers money.
“This is why I will continue to campaign to get the sand restored to Llandudno’s North Shore. As we can see, we not only need this for economic, health and cultural reasons but for the safety of the public as well.”
