PLANS FOR a multi-million-pound sea defence work at Kinmel Bay promenade have been approved.

Conwy County Borough Council’s planning committee has approved plans for the coastal defence improvements scheme.

The work will include improved rock armour defences, the raising of sea walls and improved beach access, and the council is also planning new parklets, street furniture, a toilet block, upgrades to the car park and ecological enhancements.

Permanent works will take place between the promenade and foreshore, extending from the existing rock revetment to the north of Golden Sands Caravan Park in an eastward direction – and to the boundary with Horton’s Nose Nature Reserve north of Pont y Ddraig.

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The proposed upgrade will increase the level of coastal flood protection offered by the current rock armour unit.

The new design will keep the ‘1 in 4’ slope angle of the current rock armour unit but will increase the crest width and height.

The work is set to protect this area of coastline from ‘a one-in-200-year event’ up to the year 2041.

The final decision was communicated on October 24, and one of the conditions stipulated by the council was that work begin by October 20, 2028.

Another condition is that construction work only be carried out from 8am-6pm from Monday-Friday, and on Saturdays from 8am-12pm.