Council started unauthorised work to create school bus park

THE majority of a large lawn at a secondary school in Carmarthenshire will make way for a bus park, although five mature trees there will be retained.

- RICHARD YOULE Senior local democracy reporter

The new bus park and turning area at Ysgol Dyffryn Aman, Ammanford, will have space for up to 13 coaches and replace a smaller area they use on adjacent Margaret Street.

Planning officer John Thomas told the council's planning committee the Margaret Street arrangements were “far from satisfactory”, but it is expected congestion will ease as a result.

It also emerged at the meeting on August 14 that some unauthorised work in preparation of the development has taken place as well as some permitted work, and that the applicant is the council.

Mr Thomas said an enforcement case has opened as a result but that it was on hold, as per the authority's planning policy, until the application was determined.