On October 27th and November 21st, 2020, Cadno M么n revealed the chaos surrounding Ynys Mon Anglesey Council's failure to deliver a Brexit customs facility in Holyhead before 1st January 2021.
Tonight on S4C Welsh News, in an interview with Sion Twcwyn, Llinos Medi, leader of Ynys Mon Council stated that a site had been secured for a Brexit customs facility in Holyhead, namely the Road King Holyhead Transport Cafe at Parc Cybi, Holyhead. see http://www.rktruckstops.co.uk/locations/
Moreover, the deal means the Road King facility will close with a loss of 28 jobs so that the site can be adapted for use as a Brexit customs facility in time for 1st January 2021.
It is understood Park Cybi's freeholders negotiated a deal directly with HMRC although no further details were given.
It is further understood that Ynys Mon Council submitted a planning application on its own land at Mona Industrial Park for a Brexit customs facility given no local site was suitable or available in Holyhead. However, the council's planning committee refused the Mona application on the basis that trucks leaving Holyhead Port would be using the A5 through Gwalchmai.
On S4C, council leader Llinos Medi stated that" the council's site at Mona was unsuitable because lorries would have to go through Gwalchmai." But is this entirely true?
There were other options:
1. Extend the VOSA site at A55, J4
There were other options:
1. Extend the VOSA site at A55, J4
It's just surrounded by farmland and close to Holyhead.
2. Acquire the Turnpike Nant services site (which has planning approval) at A55, J6
2. Acquire the Turnpike Nant services site (which has planning approval) at A55, J6
This could have been the council's prize.
3. Mona Industrial Estate - access only via A55, J6
It seems the Ynys Mon Council leader was unable to fathom that trucks could travel to the Mona Industrial Estate to a new Brexit customs facility (built on council land) along the A55 to J6 and double back to Mona on the A55. Why was this option not considered?
In summary, Holyhead has lost its truckstop with 28 jobs, Ynys Mon Council has lost HMRC as a tenant at Mona Industrial Estate. Again, the abject failure of leadership by Ynys Mon Council's Llinos Medi of Plaid Cymru.
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3. Mona Industrial Estate - access only via A55, J6
It seems the Ynys Mon Council leader was unable to fathom that trucks could travel to the Mona Industrial Estate to a new Brexit customs facility (built on council land) along the A55 to J6 and double back to Mona on the A55. Why was this option not considered?
In summary, Holyhead has lost its truckstop with 28 jobs, Ynys Mon Council has lost HMRC as a tenant at Mona Industrial Estate. Again, the abject failure of leadership by Ynys Mon Council's Llinos Medi of Plaid Cymru.
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