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Permitted Development Rights: another way Welsh Labour are harming Welsh Tourism and Hospitality / Hawliau Datblygu a Ganiateir: ffordd arall y mae Llafur Cymru yn niweidio Twristiaeth a Lletygarwch Cymru

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Wednesday, 31 January, 2024
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Yesterday Janet Finch-Saunders, Member of the Welsh Parliament for Aberconwy addressed the Welsh Government limiting use of permitted development rights in Wales.

Permitted development rights allow developments with limited planning impacts to proceed without needing a planning application. They allow, for example, for the public to convert an outbuilding into a habitable space that could then be used as a holiday let. They are fundamental to the tourism sector in North Wales and allow for small businesses to thrive in an otherwise bureaucratic planning and application process.

The small businesses in the tourism and hospitality sectors relies on this kind of support and legislation. These sectors employ 12% of the Welsh workforce and contribute £2.4 billion annually. However, rather than support the tourism and hospitality sector in Wales, Labour and Plaid have been instrumental in introducing rules that suffocate these sectors.

Commenting on this Janet said:

“On 9th January Dawn Bowden MS, Deputy Minister for Tourism told this Welsh Parliament: “The Welsh Government is committed to supporting a vibrant visitor economy all year round throughout Wales.

“However, the facts paint a different picture. Welsh Labour and Plaid Cymru have been responsible for:

  • The 182-day rule for self-catering accommodation
  • A registration scheme for holiday lets
  • A licencing scheme for hospitality accommodation
  • Tourism tax
  • Slashing the 75% business rates relief to this industry to 45%

 

“ … and by limiting permitted development rights in the form of cutting the number of days pop-up campsites can be in operation, from 56 to 28.

 

“It is about time that this sector got some good news. That is why I called on the First Minister to extend development rights for temporary campsites, by increasing the number of days from 28 to 60, bringing them in line with that of England.”

 

ENDS

 

Photo: Janet Finch-Saunders MS/AS

 

 

Ddoe, bu Janet Finch-Saunders, yr Aelod o’r Senedd dros Aberconwy, yn trafod defnydd cyfyngedig Llywodraeth Cymru o hawliau datblygu a ganiateir yng Nghymru.

Mae hawliau datblygu a ganiateir yn caniatáu i ddatblygiadau sydd ag effeithiau cynllunio cyfyngedig fynd rhagddynt heb fod angen cais cynllunio. Maen nhw’n caniatáu, er enghraifft, i'r cyhoedd droi adeilad allanol yn ofod y gellir ei ddefnyddio wedyn fel llety gwyliau. Maen nhw’n hanfodol i'r sector twristiaeth yn y Gogledd ac yn caniatáu i fusnesau bach ffynnu mewn proses gynllunio a gwneud cais sydd fel arall yn un fiwrocrataidd.

Mae'r busnesau bach yn y sectorau twristiaeth a lletygarwch yn dibynnu ar y math hwn o gefnogaeth a deddfwriaeth. Mae'r sectorau hyn yn cyflogi 12% o weithlu Cymru ac yn cyfrannu £2.4 biliwn bob blwyddyn. Fodd bynnag, yn hytrach na chefnogi'r sector twristiaeth a lletygarwch yng Nghymru, mae Llafur a Plaid wedi bod yn allweddol wrth gyflwyno rheolau sy'n mygu'r sectorau hyn.

Wrth sôn am hyn, dywedodd Janet:

"Ar 9 Ionawr, dywedodd Dawn Bowden AS, y Dirprwy Weinidog Twristiaeth wrth y Senedd: "Mae Llywodraeth Cymru wedi ymrwymo i gefnogi economi ymwelwyr fywiog drwy gydol y flwyddyn ledled Cymru.

"Ond mae'r ffeithiau yn creu darlun gwahanol. Mae Llafur Cymru a Phlaid Cymru wedi bod yn gyfrifol am:

  • Y rheol 182 diwrnod ar gyfer llety hunanarlwyo
  • Cynllun cofrestru ar gyfer llety gwyliau
  • Cynllun trwyddedu ar gyfer llety lletygarwch
  • Y dreth twristiaeth
  • Gostwng y rhyddhad ardrethi busnes 75% i'r diwydiant hwn i 45%

 

...  a thrwy gyfyngu ar hawliau datblygu a ganiateir ar ffurf torri nifer y diwrnodau y gall gwersylloedd dros dro fod ar waith, o 56 i 28.

 

"Mae'n hen bryd i'r sector hwn gael ychydig o newyddion da. Dyna pam yr wyf wedi galw ar y Prif Weinidog i ymestyn hawliau datblygu ar gyfer gwersylloedd dros dro, drwy gynyddu nifer y diwrnodau o 28 i 60, fel eu bod yr un fath ag yn Lloegr."

 

DIWEDD

 

Llun: Janet Finch-Saunders AS

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