RESIDENTS on a Rhyl estate have held showdown talks with a council over the future of their community.
Officials from Denbighshire County Council met residents of Park View Estate, off Dyserth Road, to discuss using a plot of green land on the estate as a village green.
About 30 residents met officials, including the council's leader Huw Evans, at Wellington Community Centre.
The land has been fenced off since October 2007 but Denbighshire is considering securing a deal to lease the land to the residents.
Phil Worley, 63, chair of Park View Residents’ Association, said when the estate was first built they were promised the land as a recreational area.
He said: “We are happy they are offering us the chance to take the land. We just wanted it confirmed what they were going to offer us.
“We feel more positive that this can happen. It will be a safe place for kids to play and a safe place for more mature people to walk. It was well used before it was fenced off.
“It will be protected from now until the end of time for the use of residents and the children. It will give kids somewhere to go.”
Last month a controversial planning application to build a residential care home, day nursery and community centre on the land was kicked out by the county's planning committee after receiving 1,100 objections.
A spokesman for Denbighshire said: “The council has listened to residents' concerns about the council plot of land, as part of its commitment of working with local communities and the meeting was a constructive one.
“The council will be meeting residents again in late January with the hope of making things better on the Park View Estate by working together.”
Council officials are due to attend the Park View Residents Association meeting on January 31.