The Lake District Nation Park Concerned

The Lake District National Park is concerned about the development proposed to enable the are to become the worlds largest repository of nuclear waste. The concerns are reported in Martin Wainwright's article in The Guardian 28 November 2012.

The Guardian highlights wining and dining

The Guardian has highlighted the wining and dining that has gone on behind the scenes in an article by Leo Hickman published on 28 November, 2012.

Demolition of more local houses

Demolition starts of local houses.

As press reports describe the new Japanese owners of New Horizon active work begins on demolishing the surviving houses around the perimeter of the land destined for the new power station. Some have already been demolished over the previous twelve months. Some of the surviving ones had been identified as being roosting sites for bats, so needed to be left until the bats had been re-located or were not roosting.
Press reports described them as being derelict or being repair. But people had been happily living in them, or the decay has occurred during the months they have been unoccupied and either not maintained or they have been vandalised since being boarded up.

Tan-yr-Alt

Demolition of former pig sty and stables and caravan at
Tan-yr-Alt.

Demolition of Bronydd, Cemaes Road
excluding the double garage.

Former site of Bronydd.

The steel framed workshop / warehouse downhill from the former  Firs Hotel
also demolished.

A letter to local people describe 15 notifications to remove structures which include 11 derelict houses as well as other structures including out buildings at Tre'r Gof which encompass the residential property, but with no plans to remove the house which they intend to keep occupied.
The contractor managing the demolition is Gaerwen-based DU Construction Ltd.
All materials will either be re-used on site or reclaimed or recycled.

Other properties in ownership of New Horizon are to be improved for needs of current or future tenants. Torman Cottage (adjacent to Nant Orman on Holyhead Road, Cemaes will have an application submitted to remove the planning consent that restricts its use to a holiday let, seeking to rent the property to a local tenant.

The start of this Blog - November 2012

This is the first in a series of monthly updates about changes that are happening in the area affected by the proposed construction of a new nuclear power station around the present Wylfa Power Station.

Entrance to the present Wylfa Power Station at Tregele, Anglesey. 

To avoid constant updates each set of photos will be added monthly and could be simply seasonal impressions of the landscape, or they could show works commencing and construction - or demolition happening.

Road to Main gate and to the public facilities:-
Learning and Development Centre;
Information Centre and cafe;
Sports and Social Club

The Anglesey Coastal Footpath passes around the old site,
and through the site of the proposed new Wylfa 'B'.

A simple sign on a stone wall designates the limits of Wylfa Power Station.

The remains of the gatehouse/lodge of the demolished Wylfa House.

The footpath around the Wylfa Social Club.

Look-out.

View towards The Skerries.

I have seen common eels in this stream.

Looking towards Castell Gardens.

The almost empty car park on a Sunday. 

These pylons will need  replacing and enlarging - a National Grid project.

Looking towards the village of Tregele.

Pylons out of Wylfa. These will be insufficient for the new Wylfa 'B'.