Estate set to host hospital helipad for two years

AN historic Gwynedd estate known for hosting royals, music stars and VIPs looks set to provide a helicopter landing pad for a Bangor hospital.

- By DALE SPRIDGEON

Cyngor Gwynedd has received a full application for the temporary change of use of a pasture within the historic Vaynol Estate - known in Welsh as Parc y Faenol.

The planning application says this is to provide “a temporary helicopter landing location for Ysbyty Gwynedd” (less than a mile away).

A green infrastructure statement states this is to “support the logistics of the associated development for a new (permanent) helicopter landing pad at Ysbyty Gwynedd”.

It adds: “It is therefore proposed to provide a temporary landing location to the west of the hospital, to be used for the duration of the development while the primary helipad cannot be used (approximately two years).”