Job-creating Conwy Valley scheme unveiled

Plans have been unveiled for a £25m development of ‘smart’ homes in the Conwy Valley which will create nearly 500 jobs during construction.Housebuilder Calon Homes has submitted a planning application to Conwy County Borough Council to build 111 houses on the 13-acre Maes-y-Felin site in Glan Conwy.The company has pledged to ensure about 95 per cent of the people employed on the development of two, three and four-bedroom family homes will be from the county of Conwy and, wherever possible, to buy materials from local suppliers.Calon Homes is a joint venture between housing association Cartrefi Conwy, its subsidiary Creating Enterprise and Mochdre-based Brenig Developments.The company will be using its 50 per cent share of the profits to put into affordable housing.The Maes-y-Felin development is close to the hearts of two of the Calon Homes directors, Mark Parry and Howard Vaughan, who are also the joint managing directors of Brenig Construction.Both were brought up in Glan Conwy and in his spare time Vaughan is manager of the village’s men’s football team and a community governor of Ysgol Glan Conwy.