Paul Rowlinson, Gwynedd's cabinet member for Housing, spoke in favour of social housing at a full council meeting held on the 14th May, 2026.
Rowlinson was answering a question from councillor, Rhys Tudur, who sits on the planning committee which has opposed social housing applications. The planning committee is also responsible for decisions that have been lost on appeal costing the public purse thousands of pounds.
Gwynedd has a housing crisis with 4,107 individuals currently on the housing register.
Article 4
Councillor Gruffydd Williams, who also sits on the planning committee, asked the next question -
...Therefore, is the Council finally going to apologise to the campaigners for article 4, patriots, linguists and taxpayers, following the fact that it is now clear that a shortcoming in the key paperwork caused Article 4 to be quashed and that a sum of money of over half a million has been wasted?
Craig ab Iago, the cabinet member for the Enviroment, did not apologise.
Value for money..?
Cyngor Gwynedd made the decision to implement Article 4 after seeking external advice.
Who were the external advisors?
Will the council sue them to recoup the £500,000 this has cost the public purse?
Councillors also discussed the -
CYNGOR GWYNEDD PLAN 2023-28 - 2026/27 REVIEW
ADOPTION OF NEW ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY FOR GWYNEDD
VISITOR LEVY
ANNUAL REVIEW OF THE COUNCIL'S POLITICAL BALANCE
APPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS TO THE STANDARDS COMMITTEE - INTERVIEW PANEL RECOMMENDATIONS
There were two Notice of Motion's.
The agenda pack for the meeting can be found here -
https://democracy.gwynedd.llyw.cymru//ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=130&MId=5543
The webcast of the entire meeting can be viewed here -
https://gwynedd.public-i.tv/core/portal/webcast_interactive/1091056
This was yet another meeting that Dafydd Gibbard, the CEO of cyngor Gwynedd, could have
updated councillors and the public re the calls for a public inquiry
into Neil Foden - and the council processes that failed the children.
He did not...
Something is very wrong within Gwynedd council...
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