A GWYNEDD councillor has told her colleagues that “everyone in Llanbedr wants the new bypass ‘yesterday’”.

Speaking at a county council cabinet meeting, Cllr Annwen Hughes, was hugely in favour of advancing plans for a new road bypassing Llanbedr and improving access routes to the Snowdonia Aerospace Centre.

The cabinet was discussing whether or not to protect the original route for the Llanbedr Bypass, created in 1953, or accept a more updated version which aimed to improve transport connections to the airport as well as bypassing the village.

After a report from the head of Gwynedd Council’s Regulatory Department, Dafydd Wyn Williams noted that the newly-proposed scheme would make the most of the aerospace zone and would be more environmentally and audibly sound than the old proposal.

The cabinet was quick to support the change in plans when the new route was put forward.

Mr Williams also said that “more public consultations than required” had been held in the local community and that there was “more or less” agreement that the road was a good idea.

For many months a row has raged between a vocal portion of Llanbedr’s community which object to the new road and those who advocate the new route, not least through the Cambrian News’ letters.

However, Cllr Hughes was adamant the village was united in its support.

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