{"type": "FeatureCollection", "features": [{"type": "Feature", "geometry": {"type": "Point", "coordinates": [-4.194975, 53.21851]}, "properties": {"name": "Gaps", "media": [], "title": "Gaps", "_umap_id": "KUZ19", "description": "Llanfair has become more like a town- not as close a community any more\nWe call it a town now not a village, as there\u2019s so many people living here\nLove living here, I don\u2019t want to move\nI\u2019m lucky to work here\nClose knit community\nWe are an independent community\nPeople don\u2019t mix like they used to \nYouth Club has shut- nothing for young people to do\nNo public toilets\nI feel safe in my community\nNo facilities for young people\nNothing for young people to do- isolated in their own homes on computers\nMoved here 11 years ago and I got a warm welcome from everyone. I decided to play for the village football team to make friends, and since I did I\u2019ve made some lifelong friends, which is great.\nLlanfair is a safe place to live generally\nThis is just a \u2018passing through\u2019 village\nIf you don\u2019t live on an estate you don\u2019t know anyone\nYou can get very lonely\nLovely people here, great place to live\nGwynfor- Community Councillor is great, he\u2019ll do anything for anyone\nShouldn\u2019t have moved the car park- too far to walk there now and I can\u2019t drive\nThe \u2018community\u2019 here is retired\nStruggle to get people to attend groups\nNeed new blood as volunteers\nNeed a Men\u2019s Shed in Llanfair\nLucky I can drive- taxi\u2019s are so expensive and bus stops are miles away so can\u2019t get to them\nMany leave the area for social activities as most venues are booked up or not in use\nVillage is turning into a 'town'- losing it's community feel\nAccessibility of community activities- difficult for older people and will put them off going out, leading to isolation\nQuestion over who maintains parks and green spaces (rugby pitches, football pitches)- schools or communities councils?\nLack of dementia friendly socialising activities\nYoung people would like access to a greater variety of sports clubs and feel more coaches are needed\nThe young requested a skate park.  They feel having one could improve health and wellbeing and has potential to bring the community together.\nThe young people would like a cycle track to other areas (Llangefni was mentioned) so that they can access more opportunities \nIt was highlighted that there are many cyclists from around the island who stop in LlanfairPG who would like a recognised stopping point where they can get healthy organic drinks and food\nThe community would like a cafe like Caffi Coed Y Brenin/Menter Fachwen where you could go if you feel lonely, and more coffee mornings\nFitness classes were noted as a good opportunity to meet people and engage with the wider community\nNot much do to for young people\nYoung people will travel to Holyhead or Bangor to gain some entertainment\nLlanfair was a village for the older generation\nFew years ago it was dominated by older people\nOne way system possibly needed in the future to keep the traffic moving in the village\nNot as many groups as their use to be-  thinking no groups will start back up once everyone feels safe again\nFeels like it\u2019s just a \u2018passing through\u2019 village \nIt\u2019s all gone too big now- \nIf you don\u2019t live on an estate you won\u2019t know anyone. This was a big problem during the beginning of covid \nVolunteer co-ordinators have been amazing through the pandemic \nLots of people visit Llanfair which helps the revenue, after covid impacted on our local shops and businesses\nYouth Clubs don\u2019t work- need re-branding\nPeople feel safe because there\u2019s lots of CCTV\nResidents waiting a long time for forms and correspondence to come back from Social Services about help that would enable them to be more independent- care packages\nHomecare workers are always in a rush- not enough time spent on what the person needs just how long it takes\nElderly people easily confused as they have to deal with so many people and agencies when referred\nAmenities are only easily accessible if you have a car- lack of public transport\nN Lack of dementia friendly socialising activities\nYoung people would like a access to a greater variety of sports clubs and feel more coaches are needed\nThe young requested a skate park.  They feel having one could improve health and wellbeing, and has potential to bring the community together.\nDoor to door deliveries have been a life saver through the pandemic\nCouldn\u2019t have carried on without the deliveries from the amazing volunteers \nPeople can walk through the village for their daily walk and still see people but make sure to keep their distance. \nChiropodist has moved to Bangor- older people can\u2019t access the service anymore\nNumber of people from outlying villages using health services in the village because of the good transport links- could put pressure on these services for local people trying to get appointments\nHousing stock for older people looking to downsize- mobility and independence issues, don't want to become isolated\nRequire more dementia care in the community\nLack of access to public toilets\nLlanfair PG is a smoke free zone but people still smoke there-who enforces it?\nEquipment delivery after hospital arrived promptly \nThe bus does not stop at Ysbyty Gwynedd during visiting times\nLot of elderly people rely on their free bus passes to remain independent\nThere is a lack of NHS dentists in the area.  Most people travelled for a dentist (Cemaes Bay and Caernarfon were mentioned)\nParking is a problem- especially when there\u2019s lots of tourists\nPlease don\u2019t bring parking charges into the village\nWe need parking but in the right place\nI work in the community and park in the Community Council car park all day as there is nowhere else to leave the car\nWould welcome community transport- dial a bus service \nGridlock in village at peak times\nVillagers creating havoc parking on kerbs, and at dangerous points along the road- especially outside co-operative and the school\nRely on friends to take me in their cars- most are happy but some are a little worried\nTaxis can be used but are very expensive \nLots of kind people willing to give you a lift to the shops\nHave to rely on friends to bring essentials- lots of my own family are shielding themselves!! \nYellow lines needed outside the garage\nNeed a specific place for pick-ups and drop-offs\nStopped the busses through the village\nBus services have been cut\nPublic Transport - good transport links in and out of the community\nGood buses to Bangor\nBuses are regular most of the time\nHave to walk quite a distance to the nearest bus stop from my home\nBeen stood there before for ages and bus never turned up\nGet told by bus drivers to \u2018download the app\u2019 to keep track of the buses but what about the older generation and the fact we don\u2019t have the latest phone that\u2019s not capable of doing this\nPerceived ASB- 30-40 young people coming into the village and vandalising\nPolice curfew- makes the gangs move around in stead of solving the problem\nEach house has 2,3,4 cars- nowhere to park\nCars parked outside my house, couldn\u2019t get out of the garden\nPavements are all patchwork of repairs, find them increasingly difficult to walk on\nMobility scooters and prams have to go on the road as pavements are in a bad state\nSocial cohesion- need activities that bring the comunity together\nFeel like it\u2019s a very safe area to live\nTraffic needs sorting out, crash can come through at high speeds\nNot much crime in the area as far as I\u2019m aware\nNeed to slow the traffic down through the village- could do with something to slow vehicles down\nVolunteers have been instrumental in the wellbeing of the older people in the village, wouldn\u2019t have got through it without them\nDon\u2019t see the Police around much, don\u2019t know how to contact them.\nNever see the police anymore \nGangs are dispersed, but they come back when the police are gone\nHighways not listening to our concerns\nZebra crossing has been put in the wrong place\nThe pavements are reported as being too high, which is a tripping hazard\nAlthough the council do fill in gaps in the pavements and road when reported, this issue was brought up as a main concern in LlanfairPG.  In particular, raised drains, sloping areas of ground and pavements generally were highlighted.  In one meeting, 5/6 reports of falling due to this were reported\nParking issues throughout the village\nSpeeding through the village as a main route\nUse to feel safer years ago- times have changed.\nThere are more younger families around now\nPrivate landlords- hard to get them to do repairs\nHouses are too expensive \u2013 local people can\u2019t afford to buy one\nHow does the waiting list work- do older people get priority?\nHousing officers in Anglesey Council are very helpful\nLots of empty houses in the estate\nSheltered housing- Anglesey Council bring people from outside to live here\nCouncil and housing associations build all these houses with no infrastructure in place to support them- no playgrounds, no green spaces, no medical centre and no parking\nHousing stock for older people looking to downsize- houses becoming too big or expensive to maintain but nowhere to move to in the village\nNeed for more affordable housing- young people, single people and families\nVillage is popular for young Welsh couples moving in - has all the amenities, perception though that this is pushing house prices up\nNo housing for young people Housing is so expensive \nYoung people have no chance to get on the ladder\nLots of privately rented houses in Llanfair \nMajority of houses are owned by the older generation\nWe need new houses, but they have to be affordable for the younger generation \nTerrible vandalism around \nThe cleanliness of the streets needs to be looked at- terrible state\nPavements are filthy\nDog poo everywhere- awful problem\nPavements very slippery and wet\nNobody clears up after their dogs- disgusting!\nOnly 2 greenspaces left in Llanfair- stop over-developed\nWalks- don\u2019t feel safe with all the traffic that rushes through the village \nDog fouling on the pavement is an issue when your walking round the village. Strangely this was much better doing the beginning of covid. As soon as things started to return to the new \u2018normal\u2019 the problem persisted\nBin collection staff drop rubbish and/or recycling and don\u2019t pick it up\n\u00a325 for a replacement bin is a lot of money\nConcern about impact of the proposed Pylons project on the Village\nIt was noted that the road surface in Llanfair PG is the only section of the A55 of Anglesey which is noisy.  This has an effect on the wellbeing of some of the residents.\nTraffic as a problem at peak times\nPavements not safe to walk on for older people- doesn't encourage them to go out walking\nDog fouling was identified as a big problem, particularly near the school.  The community said they never see a warden\nConcerns have been reported to ACC before about the speed of vehicles but nothing seems to get done to resolve this issue\nNo jobs here for young people, children have moved away and won\u2019t come back\nNo houses for our young people \nThere\u2019s lots of little shops where a job might be available, but they don\u2019t come around very often\nLots of young people just need summer jobs but as there\u2019s not much in the village they must travel to Bangor, Holyhead or other places\nimpact on low income households- increase of workforces coming in and competing for jobs- advantage of paid accommodation\nConcern about Horizon creating jobs that pay higher wage than current local businesses offer- those businesses will not be able to support themselves and will not be there after the development phase for the workers to return to\nNot sure who the Community Councillors are- it doesn\u2019t interest me.\nPerception that Community Council do not accommodate for non-Welsh speakers\nPerception that Community and County Councils make decisions 'behind closed doors'\nCommunity council is fab but concerns have been passed on don\u2019t usually get resolved.\nWhen the concerns are passed on takes months sometimes for us to gain a reply and even then it doesn\u2019t help the situation\nCommunity Council are great, listen to everybody\u2019s view but lost of people now think what\u2019s the point of even telling them as they have no power to make actual changes\nKeep trying but feel like we\u2019re getting nowhere\nIs it still worth bothering??\nHow do we know what our Council Tax is paying for?  And who makes the decisions?\nAnglesey Council is easy to contact\nCyswllt M\u00f4n is difficult to use- too many options to choose from when you dial in\nApplications for funding are always a rush job- never know when funding is open until last minute\nCommunity Council do their best\nAnglesey Council need to support small businesses \u2013 business rates are too high, need more parking for tourists to be able to shop here\nYnys M\u00f4n tourism- needs to bring tourists to the small businesses rather than directing them towards bigger outlets\nAnglesey Council website is useless- can\u2019t find anything on it\nStop the overdevelopment- when Anglesey Council planning look and agree the development of Llanfair they need to realise the community do not want anymore development!\nLocal Authourity should be more responsive to local needs- need to ask the right questions\nMost people knew who their councillor was, but some did not\nSome councillors were very well known and liked while others were described as 'not very approachable'\nNeed to address dog fouling\nNeed to address parking and speeding in the village\nChildren learn everything in Welsh, but talk English outside of school\nAlthough there are big class sizes in the school, the community are happy because the assistants 'make a huge difference'\nConcern was expressed that young people are more likely to write in English because of the increase in use of social media, and because of the pressure to only speak Welsh when in school\nSchool is open again and so far everything is going well for the children\nPrefer communication- word of mouth\nIt\u2019s hard to find out what is going on- prefer word of mouth\nPosters don\u2019t work need word of mouth\nNot sure how people find out about things if they\u2019re not on the internet\nI have no idea how to find out what clubs are happening\nNot everyone is aware of the community newsletter\nThe sharing of information seems to be mainly word of mouth or via posters.  Some people felt that one location / person to visit and find out up to date information would be beneficial.  This was discussed as a need not only for local people, but people moving to the area.\nKeeping up with the villages news and upcoming events on the Facebook page is great but we must think about the older generation who aren\u2019t computer savvy and may need some one-to-one help with this \nMissing out on events due to this \nHaven\u2019t been able to receive help from family members etc during covid so felt very isolated\nHave used e-mails as a form of keeping in contact but not everyone can do that  \nAnglesey Council don\u2019t listen to people and are wasting money\nAnglesey Council don\u2019t listen to what the community wants \nResidents preferred to talk to someone in person but were happy to phone the County Council switchboard to find out about services and activities\nResidents were happy to go online to find out about consultations but preferred to actually take part in another way- focus groups, in person etc\nReduced feeling of power and involvement over what is happening locally- things just get announced and then we're asked to comment- that's the wrong way around!\nArtisans- small group of craft workers that hold local fayres\nThere are lots of local non-profit organisations raising money for charities including RNLI, SAFFA, St David\u2019s hospice\nMedrwn M\u00f4n have been a lifeline through the pandemic\nPeople that were isolated and alone received help from Medrwn and are so so thankful, without them I don\u2019t know what would of happened\nHave even used Medrwn at times where I just needed to talk, they put my mind at ease and helped me relax\nMedrwn have been a great support not just through the pandemic but always. Very thankful to them as always\nMenter Mon don\u2019t supporting local/small businesses only Dylan\u2019s or Marram Grass\nThe chapel pulls people together \nSeibiant care is wonderful\nPressure on local leisure services - small centres may not be able to cope with large increase in users"}}, {"type": "Feature", "geometry": {"type": "Point", "coordinates": [-4.203815, 53.218009]}, "properties": {"name": "Assets", "media": [], "title": "Assets", "_umap_id": "ACgBx", "description": "Karate\nBallet\nCommunity Council\nYouth Club\nBefriending group\nAnglesey Artisan Group\nVoluntary & Community Groups\nFriends/ family/ neighbour networks\nFacebook Page \nSafe Community\nToddler Groups (pre covid)\nCCTV\nBus service- regular \nCOVID 19 Support Team\nGreat location as a village\nFriends/family provide lifts\nTaxi \nGood buses to Bangor\nSafe feel to the community\nWord of mouth\nSocial Networks- Information shared by word of mouth, or through local newspaper\nLlanfair Newlsetter\nS4C\nLocal Newspapers (although the delivery of the Chronicle is inconsistent)\nMedrwn M\u00f4n\nVolunteers\nPolice presence \nSeibiant Care\nPrivate childcare (childminders)"}}, {"type": "Feature", "geometry": {"type": "Point", "coordinates": [-4.1977, 53.216891]}, "properties": {"name": "Priorities", "media": [], "title": "Priorities", "_umap_id": "Lqy9k", "description": "Tie activities for people into using the local environment \u2013 key to well-being\nMore activities for young people that suit their needs\nLook at activities that could help reduce loneliness and isolation in older people within the community\nDementia care facilities \u2013 perceived higher population of older residents\nSupport local groups to become more responsive to local needs\nAffordable housing as a priority\nCCTV is a necessity\nReduce speeding through the village\nMore parking for residents\nYMCC to look at speeding, parking and pavements as a matter of concern within the village \u2013 ask local people how it could be reduced, offer solutions etc\nLook at improving pavements and reducing fear of speeding\nLook at supporting the public transport service with a community scheme\nAlleviation of bridge traffic at peak times\nRaise awareness of Linc Cymunedol M\u00f4n and YMCC Single Point of Access for information about local activities and services\nRaise awareness of the community newsletter as an information point for residents\nMore open and transparent information re: National Grid\nBetter sharing of information about how the pylons\nRaise awareness of decision-making processes and the number of different options of taking part\nMake consultations, meetings etc accessible for those who want to take part\nLook at different ways of engaging communities in decision making \u2013 don\u2019t like to open the door when I\u2019m on my own balanced with getting out of the 9-5 mindset\nOpen communication about decision making processes as mitigation for feelings of un-involvement, disengagement etc\nLook at translating documents \u2013 Welsh is inaccessible even to Welsh speakers!\nSimplify the referral process and have more information which is explained in simple terms\nTraining for frontline staff in health services \u2013 enabling residents to access the service in their chosen language\nAlleviation of traffic over the bridge for people who travel out of the village to work"}}]}