Work underway on £25m scheme

A North Wales developer has started work on a £25m scheme to build more than 100 homes in Colwyn Bay.Bamber Homes is a new division of the Mochdre-based Brenig Group and has been formed to develop the company’s private housebuilding projects.Its first venture is on a 13-acre site on Queens Drive, Colwyn Bay, where it will build a mixture of two- to five-bedroom houses and apartments on the former John Braddock and Mary Bamber convalescent centre site.The plans include 14 executive-style apartments in the John Braddock building, originally built as a mansion-style home for Lord Colwyn in the 1930s and including a croquet lawn, woodland and a small lake.The Brenig Group is headed by joint managing directors Mark Parry and Howard Vaughan who first met as six-year-olds at their local youth club in Glan Conwy in 1987.The development is part of a planned expansion into private housing which began three years ago when the company recruited former Redrow and Anwyl Homes executive Bryn Roberts.