Locals horrified at mountain of rubbish by holiday park as 'pile keeps growing'
Local residents have been left horrified by an ever-growing mountain of rubbish that has been dumped beside a holiday park.
Visiting a holiday site in Gwynedd, Wales, environmental officers discovered that an adjacent field has been used as a dumping ground. Residents have been forced to watch on as a huge pile of trash emerged next to the Snowdon View holiday park. The site was taken over by Lyons Holiday Parks in summer 2022, but it didn't take long before locals noticed rubbish being tipped in the field.
Former Manchester police officer and current neighbour Jane Brailsford lodged her first complaint in spring 2023. “They were trying to burn the rubbish,” she said. “I rang the park manager and staff appeared with hosepipes to put out the fire.
“The manager said the waste would be removed and the area landscaped. But it’s still here and the pile keeps growing. You can see it from the road and everyone passing by stops to have a look – they can’t believe how big it is. It’s horrifying. I’ve taken photos but really they don’t do justice to the size of the dump.”
The first complaints were lodged back in spring 2022 (Jane Brailsford/DAILY POST WALES)Snowdon View is a tranquil holiday park with a bar, restaurant and on-site swimming pool. Its appeal lies in its location – hilly wooded countryside with stunning vistas within easy reach of Yr Wyddfa and Eryri (Snowdonia). Also nearby is Llyn Padarn, currently the source of some concern, Wales Online reports.
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Jayne, now working as an NHS administrator, worries her own views are being lost. “I can see the rubbish pile from virtually every window,” she said. “There’s pallets, decking, plastic pipes and old furniture. Fencing and tree cuttings have been dumped there too.
“People staying on the park see it too when they walk out along the road near me. It’s a popular route for walkers and the other day a man stopped me in my garden to ask me what was going on. Apart from it being shocking to look at, there is a stream just down from the dump and people are worried it may get polluted.”
Alerted by residents, enforcement officers from Natural Resources Wales (NRW) visited Brynrefail in January and the the caravan park agreed a phased clear-up. Jayne claimed progress is slow. I was told the park will be organising three skips a month to remove it,” she said. “In the last six weeks, I’ve seen just one. It was a big skip but it hardly made a dent.”
A follow-up complaint brought NRW officers back to the site. Also taking a look was Gwynedd councillor Berwyn Parry Jones, ward member for Cwm y Glo, who took photos and pledged to raise the issue with the local authority. He said: "There's quite a bit of rubbish there - rubble and timber," he said. "It's clearly a mess and needs to be removed."
NRW said some waste has been cleared but it was keeping an eye on the site. A spokesperson said: “We have visited the site on two occasions. Some waste had been removed between visits and we have been notified of the intention to move towards quarterly waste removal. We have been on site recently and will continue to monitor the situation.”
Lyons Holiday Parks has been approached for comment. Jayne, 64, just hopes the dump will be cleared before park residents start returning in spring and summer. “It’s not nice to see - it’s a real blot on the landscape in what is such a beautiful area,” she said.
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