A DEVELOPER has revealed plans to build homes on a controversial site in Wrexham.
The Dean Road field, in Rhosnesni, has been subject to a campaign by local residents to save it from development. It included protests at the site after Glyndwr University - which owns much of the site - erected a fence across it to prevent access.
Last year, an application to designate the land as a town or village green failed.
Some of the land is owned by the council but much of it is also owned by Wrexham Glyndwr University, which has secured permission for a housing development on a part of the site to help fund its Campus 2025 revamp.
Following a public inquiry, a Welsh Government inspector recommended that the application to try and designate the land as a village green must fail due to public access to the land having only been by the university’s permission since 2011.
Glyndwr University told the Leader it hasn't yet completed on the sale of the land, but Bellway Homes has revealed on its website that it plans to build a mixture of 3, 4, and 5-bedroom homes under a development named 'Holt Vale'.
The exact number of homes is currently unknown, as Bellway hasn't yet submitted a formal planning application. But in 2021 Glyndwr University was given the green light by the Welsh Government's planning inspectorate on appeal for a 74-home development on the site.
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Glyndwr University previously said it is "committed" to making part of the Dean Road site available to the council and maintained for the use of sports and/or recreational purposes, as per our original planning decision in May 2021.
After news of the plans for the development were shared on social media by a local councillor, some residents expressed their anger about it.
One person said: "I was spitting yesterday when I heard of the grants being made available in parts of Wales to get young people interested in sport and yet they take our field and cut it drastically."
Another added: "Yet more pressure on our already badly depleted medical services."
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