Plans that could see 450 houses built in the Colwyn Bay area have been described as a “disgrace” by councillors meeting to discuss them.

In a debate on putting a new Local Development Plan (LDP) out to public consultation, councillors rejected the housing proposals for the north Conwy town.

The LDP masterplan sets out a target for how many houses should be built in the county and where they should go.

Each council has to adopt a plan with Conwy’s new LDP set to run until 2033, the proposals for the future of housing in the county could see 5,150 homes built.

As well as a housing target the plan sets a goal of 1,800 jobs to be created by setting aside 12-14 hectares of land for business development.

In Colwyn Bay the target for houses to be built is 450.

But in discussions with the finance and scrutiny committee, Eirias county councillor, Bob Squire, argued the town had already taken on too much of the county’s housing burden.

He said: “The LDP is supposed to be about sustainability and quality of life. And all that happened in the last LDP was that the quality of life of the people in Old Colwyn was more or less destroyed and I talk to people regularly there and they are sick to death of it. The Welsh Government changed their rules and they enabled it for permission to be granted to build hundreds of houses on Llanelian Road and it’s now a death trap.

“But worse than that when you look at the services the, doctors, the hospital, apprenticeships these are all in trouble.”

He added: “You come to this report and it’s a case of more houses, this is a load of crap, I’m sorry that’s all it can be called. To try and push this through is a disgrace and an insult to the people of Old Colwyn.”

Members agreed with Cllr Squire’s proposal to remove reference to the 450 homes from the report that

Cllr Nigel Smith, chairing the meeting, said: “I totally sympathise with Bob. I have never understood why we seem to be consistently voting to impose new communities on existing large communities. Because you are only going to cause gridlock and issues for the people already there in those areas.”

The plan will go to cabinet to be approved for public consultation but members of the committee voted to remove the target for Colwyn Bay from their recommendation.