The pretty UK village campaigning against tourists for one huge reason

Steps up to the aged lighthouse connected Llanddwyn Island. (Image: Getty)

People successful a Welsh colony are sick of congested postulation and costly parking successful their country owed to surviving adjacent to a fashionable beach.

Traeth Llanddwyn Beach is simply a bluish emblem formation and an evident societal media favourite which attracts tons of tourists passim the summer.

Villagers person launched a petition to get escaped parking astatine the tract and assertion they person been hung retired to adust portion concessions are fixed to neighbouring villages with little postulation congestion.

Residents successful adjacent Brynsiencyn and Llanfairpwll judge poorer villagers aren’t getting a look successful astatine Traeth Llanddwyn due to the fact that of extortionate parking charges and interest increases, and locals assertion they are being pushed speech successful favour of tourists.

The adjacent colony of Newborough is said to beryllium the worst affected by the traffic, often grinding to a halt during summertime weekends. Site manager Natural Resources Wales (NRW) has started to springiness residents passes allowing escaped parking successful Newborough Forest, which backs onto the beach.

Traeth Llanddwyn formation is simply a fashionable destination for tourists successful the summertime (Image: Getty)

The concession is besides disposable to residents successful Dwyran, Llangaffo and Malltraeth – different 3 villages affected by the postulation that prevarication connected introduction routes to the beach. As galore visitors get implicit the A55 Britannia Bridge, and caput to Llanddwyn via the A4080, Llanfairpwll and Brynsiencyn are, similar Dwyran, severely affected by the congestion.

A caller Change.org petition is warring for the close of locals to beryllium capable to easy usage Traeth Llanddwyn Beach.

It said: “Since Brynsiencyn receives astir of the postulation going done to Llanddwyn formation but perfectly nary reward, we should beryllium granted escaped parking astatine the tract by NRW.

“Many of the poorest residents of the colony cannot warrant the costs of up to £3.60 to sojourn a earthy practice tract which should beryllium to the radical who inhabit the surrounding areas. This besides means that astir of the visitors of Llanddwyn beach, of whom tin really spend it, are holidaymakers.”

One of the petition signers commented: “Having locals paying for thing connected their doorstep is outrageous.”

While different signee said: “I unrecorded successful a seaside municipality wherever we already person to wage to parkland astatine our section formation successful the summer.”

Currently, determination are parking charges successful Newborough National National Reserve successful 3 of its 7 car parks. These are the main Beach parking area, and 2 connected the entree roadworthy to this car parkland – Airman’s and Cwningar – besides person charges. The escaped parking areas prevarication immoderate region from Traeth Llanddwyn beach.

Parking charges scope from £2 for the archetypal 2 hours and 40p for each 20 minutes aft that, with a maximum complaint of £7 per day. The payments are managed via an Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) camera astatine the entrance, and parking astatine these sites is escaped for Blue Badge holders.

Llanddwyn’s car parks are often afloat precise rapidly resulting successful queues to get successful contempt the parking charges. There person been measures to power the summertime gridlock that plagues Newborough but each person truthful acold been ineffective.

Earlier this twelvemonth Plaid person Rhun ap Iorwerth urged the Welsh Government to benignant retired the appalling postulation conditions that plague Newborough.

You tin presumption and motion the Change.org petition to Grant Free Parking astatine Llanddwyn Beach for Brynsiencyn & Llanfairpwll's residents here.