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The Planning Committee met on 19 October 2026 to consider planning applications. No minutes have been published, so no decisions from this meeting are recorded here.
It refused a petrol filling station and electric vehicle charging hub at Muriau, Caernarfon, for eight reasons, after the application was sent back because the earlier report had not fully considered the food-to-go units. It approved with conditions a 36-home affordable housing scheme on Ffordd Llanberis, Caernarfon, and a project to replace underground electricity cables along the A483 at Porthmadog.
The Planning Committee on 7 September 2026 considered three planning applications in Gwynedd. Members delegated the power to approve a scheme of 20 affordable homes at Chwilog, subject to a legal agreement and conditions, after a proposal to refuse it was defeated on a recorded vote. The committee resolved to refuse eight shepherds' huts at Palé Hall Hotel, and delegated powers to refuse a touring caravan extension at Tir Glyn, Uwchmynydd.
The Planning Committee met on 13 July 2026 to decide five planning applications. It refused a house in Llanberis and two roadside fuel station proposals near Caernarfon, and it approved a school fence in Caernarfon with conditions. It delegated approval of a temporary wind measuring mast at Pen y Bwlch Gwyn to officers, subject to conditions.
The Planning Committee agreed to approve four of seven planning applications, including a replacement house in Sarn Bach, 13 flats on Bangor High Street, a recycling plant at Cefn Graianog quarry and a touring caravan site at Groeslon. It refused to remove an affordable housing agreement near Boduan, and deferred decisions on a house in Llanberis and a school fence in Caernarfon so members could visit the sites.
The Planning Committee met on 18 May 2026, after electing Councillor Huw Rowlands as Chair for 2026/27. It delegated approval of a new substation at Glan Dwyfach, subject to a positive highways response, and of a quarry extension at Bryncir to 2030. It approved a new Welsh-medium primary school and community centre in Bontnewydd, with conditions.
The committee considered five planning applications and approved four of them, all with conditions. These were the partial demolition of the Corbett Arms Hotel in Tywyn, the extension and internal works at the Friars Building in Bangor, and cable works at Pentir substation; the Friars extension depends on drainage information. The committee refused the 25 affordable homes at Chwilog against officers' advice, so the application will go through a cooling-off period before a final decision.
The Planning Committee on 23 March 2026 considered two planning applications. It approved a medical outpatient unit in an office unit at Parc Menai, Bangor, against officers' recommendation to refuse. It agreed to delegate powers to the Head of Environment Department to refuse a scheme of nine affordable flats for people over 55 on the former Plas Newydd care home site in Criccieth.
The Planning Committee met on 2 March 2026 and considered four planning applications. It approved schemes for 15 affordable homes at Trefor and 17 at Llanrug, both subject to legal agreements for open space or play contributions, and approved a new footpath and wall removal at Llyn Bach, Porthmadog. It also gave the Senior Planning Manager power to approve changes to a farm building at Dinas, near Pwllheli, which had already been built.
The Planning Committee considered an application to build up to 48 homes on Cae Incline Fields, Bangor. The Committee approved the application, subject to 16 conditions, and all the homes would be affordable.
At its meeting on 12 January 2026, Gwynedd Council's Planning Committee approved two planning applications and refused a third. The approved schemes were a change of use to five flats in Caernarfon town centre and an energy storage system at Tyddyn Forgan, Llanddeiniolen. The refused scheme was a battery storage system near Pentir substation, refused because of its harmful visual impact on the landscape, and a further application in Aberdaron was deferred to 23 March 2026.
The Planning Committee considered six planning applications, covering housing, holiday accommodation, a sports centre, a builders merchants and flats. It approved four applications, refused a caravan site at Bwlchtocyn, and deferred a proposal for five flats in Caernarfon until more evidence of need is provided.
It deferred a decision on eight affordable homes at Aberdaron so members could visit the site.
The committee refused an application for a 4.99MW solar farm on farmland near Llanbedrog, Pwllheli. It also approved, subject to positive observations from Cadw and planning conditions, a new six-seat giant swing at Zip World in Penrhyn Quarry, Bethesda, after members rejected a proposal to defer. Both decisions were recorded at the meeting on 20 October 2025.
The Planning Committee considered planning applications. It approved a single-storey rear extension at 65 Cae Gwyn, Caernarfon, and refused plans for 12 holiday cabins on land at Y Ffôr, Pwllheli. The refusal rests on concerns about visual impact, noise, drainage and archaeology.
The Planning Committee considered four planning applications on 8 September 2025. It approved a new cemetery for Tudweiliog and a two-storey side extension in Bangor. It gave officers delegated powers to approve a replacement house at Ael y Bryn, Rhiw, and a four-year extension to sand and gravel extraction at Cefn Graianog.
The Planning Committee agreed to start the legal process for a new public footpath near Llanystumdwy. It approved six applications, most of them housing schemes, subject to conditions. It refused a 15-pitch touring caravan site at Bwlchtocyn and deferred a decision on a house replacement at Rhiw so members could visit the site.
The Planning Committee met on 16 June 2025 and considered two planning applications. It refused both: a single affordable house on land near Oxton Villa, Penygroes, and the conversion of the Market Hall in Blaenau Ffestiniog into 14 flats.
It also considered a footpath registration application at Treborth, Pentir, and five planning applications; the minutes record refusals or delegated decisions on several of them, with others left to officers.
The Planning Committee considered eight planning applications on 28 April 2025. It approved two: a food truck and allotment site in Penrhyndeudraeth, and a depot in Caernarfon, and refused a scheme for eight affordable homes at Botwnnog. It agreed site visits for two holiday accommodation applications, deferred a recycling site at Bontnewydd, and saw two applications withdrawn.
The committee considered four planning applications. It refused two outline applications for housing in Pwllheli against officers' advice, citing affordable housing, the mix of homes and Welsh language concerns. It approved four industrial units at Bryn Cegin with conditions and delegated approval of six houses in Edern to a senior officer, subject to a legal agreement.
The committee considered two planning applications on 3 March 2025. It approved restoration and redevelopment work at the Welsh Slate Museum at Gilfach Ddu, Llanberis, subject to 14 conditions. It refused an application to turn bedrooms at the Stables Hotel, Bethesda Bach, into 10 affordable flats, for four reasons.
The Planning Committee decided four planning applications on 3 February 2025. It approved 16 affordable homes at Dinas and improvements to a caravan site at Bwlchtocyn, and it delegated approval of a rear extension in Bangor to an officer. It refused a retrospective rebuild of a cottage at Llanbedrog, against officers' advice, on grounds of over-development and harm to the AONB.
The Planning Committee approved a temporary waste recycling site at Chwarel Garth quarry, Minffordd, and agreed that officers can approve nine affordable homes at Maes Twnti, Morfa Nefyn. It deferred a decision on a two-storey rear extension in Bangor so that members could visit the site. It also voted, against officers' advice, to ask for a footpath at Nefyn Harbour to be added to the definitive map of public rights of way.
The committee considered three planning applications, all in Gwynedd: two to turn the former Bangor Independent School into nine homes, and one to convert an outbuilding at Plas Coch, Penisarwaun, into a holiday let. It approved both Bangor applications, subject to conditions. It refused the Plas Coch application against the officers' recommendation, because it would harm neighbours' privacy and living conditions.
Five planning applications were considered, with three approved, one refused and one deferred. A house in Llanbedrog was refused because its height and size would harm neighbours, and officers were given the power to approve a house in Edern and a holiday site near Pwllheli. A three-year extension was approved for a 27-home scheme in Deiniolen, and a decision on eight affordable homes in Botwnnog was deferred.
Members refused plans for 18 affordable homes at Cae Capel, Botwnnog, against officers' advice, saying the scheme would harm the Welsh language. They also refused a plan to turn the ground floor of the Vaynol Arms pub in Pentir into holiday lets, because the evidence did not show the pub could not stay open for community use. A new house at Glascoed, Edern, was deferred so members could visit the site.
The Planning Committee considered three planning applications at Gwynedd Council. It approved one application for a home for a rural enterprise worker at Gwynus, Llithfaen, deferred one at Woodcroft, Llanbedrog, so the applicant could correct the plans, and recorded that the applicant withdrew one for a touring caravan site at Tir Glyn, Uwchmynydd.
Gwynedd Council's Planning Committee met on 9 September 2024 to consider five planning applications. It approved a single-storey affordable house at Carmel contrary to the officers' advice, approved a design change in Caernarfon, delegated approval of a battery energy storage site at Pentir, referred an 18-home scheme at Botwnnog to a cooling-off period, and refused a rear balcony at Morfa Nefyn.
The Planning Committee considered seven planning applications in Gwynedd on 29 July 2024. It approved affordable self-build plots at Bodernabwy, Aberdaron, and gave officers delegated powers to approve five flats at the former Wynnes Arms, Manod, and 10 affordable homes in Bangor. It refused a holiday hostel at Penisarwaun, 21 homes at Cae Stanley, Bontnewydd, and nine more caravans at Tŷ'n Lôn, Afonwen, and deferred a holiday scheme at Fferm Cim, Bwlchtocyn.