PLANS by a member of a travelling family to provide homes for his relatives look set to get the go-ahead despite objections.

Members of Denbighshire County Council (DCC)’s planning committee are being recommended to approve an application by Phillip Purcell for six static caravans on land behind his own home off Vale Road, Rhyl.

Mr Purcell, who has lived with his wife and elderly mother in Kynsal House since 2019, says he needs the extra accommodation for his six adult children and their families.

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Residents of nearby Knowsley Avenue say the development is not needed, that it will lead to an increase in the amount of anti-social behaviour and disturbance they are already experiencing and that a reference to an “owner/manager” in the application implies that it could become a transient site.

They say that the application is partly retrospective as there are already two static caravans, one touring van and a mobile home on the site and that hedges and shrubbery have been torn up without permission.

Rhyl Town Council is also against the scheme, arguing that it is over-intensification, but stress that their concerns relate to the site and not the site users.

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In their report to this week’s (Wednesday, March 9) committee meeting, officers point out that the police, highways officials and public protection officer have no objections and the points raised by the objectors would be difficult to substantiate if the matter went to appeal.

The officers also agree with Mr Purcell’s argument that the development will help the county council meet its legal obligation to provide traveller sites.

“The current need is assessed as being for eight pitches,” said the report.

It added: “If permitted, the proposal would assist in meeting this need and in the council meeting its duty under the Housing Act (2014) Wales.”