{"type": "FeatureCollection", "features": [{"type": "Feature", "geometry": {"type": "Point", "coordinates": [-4.367745, 53.164299]}, "properties": {"name": "Assets", "media": [], "title": "Assets", "_umap_id": "Y6S4R", "description": "Friends of Llanddywn / Newborough beach\nFacebook pages\nMarram grass\nCamping and caravanning parks\nThe Sea\nFootpaths\nGood Neighbour Scheme\nLocal aux Coastguards from Rhosneigr \nBuses\nCycle routes\nLocal shop and post office\nCommunity council\nBus shelter\nAllotments\nGrass cutting\nCounty councillors\nWord of Mouth\nIn the shop\nMedrwn Mon"}}, {"type": "Feature", "geometry": {"type": "Point", "coordinates": [-4.368975, 53.165401]}, "properties": {"name": "Gaps", "media": [], "title": "Gaps", "_umap_id": "Evssx", "description": "Strong feeling of \u201coutsiders\u201d dictating to locals what to do during COVID- people moving into the area \nYouth clubs are shut- no funding or the staff/volunteers to run one, however there was good attendance at the Dwyran one\nYoung people have to travel to Llangefni for a youth club.\nFoodbank deliveries but not sure how to get and share to others to receive.\nSo much history in our community we need to promote this more to get people to visit.\nWe are so lucky to have all the shops in the village-easily accessible.\nVillage trees run down and forgotten.\nThere was a great community feel in Newborough but that seems to have all disappeared which is such a shame.\nRun down garage been empty for years and looks ugly in the middle of the village, \u2018no one cares\u2019.\nLocal people seem jealous if someone comes to the village and tries to make it a better place.\nPeople tried to set up a Kayaking club for the children and young people but no locals where interested in helping out just wanted it as a \u201cbaby-sitting\u201d service.\nLucky to have some takeaways but shame many have shut too.\nVillage life is good, it\u2019s a shame there is such a divide between locals and newcomers.\nDuring Covid it has been difficult to meet anyone and keep in touch it\u2019s been so lonely at times, feeling scared and isolated.\nYouth club is closed.\nGreat community and everyone keeps an eye out for each other.\nThe village has mobile post office 3 times a week or Llangaffo is 5 mins drive away.\nI am aware of group events taking place (pre Covid) in Pritchard Jones and Eglwys Bach for elderly mostly. I am not aware of any groups for younger members of the community. I do not use any of these services at present.\nThe Pritchard Jones Hall, but that seems to have to compete with Eglwys Bach these days, so neither thrive.\nLibrary - shut. Post office shut. Village shop is very poor and frequently has druggies hanging around outside. The Pritchard Jones Institute is a lovely building but is becoming run down.\nPritchard Jones institute is important to the village, although many people are unaware of access to the library there (now shut). The building is not utilised as well as it should be and it needs to be used.\nAll activities have stopped during COVID. No church services.\nKeep in touch by phone or Facebook. No more aware about community during COVID. Everyone seems to be staying safe and keeping their distance.\nDuring the first lockdown, the lady from Wiwer Goch Caff sorted lots of things out and there was a leaflet drop once. Since then - nothing.\nYnys M\u00f4n Council were in regular contact with group admins who forwarded information as necessary. As with anything that is new there were a few hiccups to start off with but once the group was more established it ran well. There are members within the community however who refused any help and found the group intrusive\nPhone signal total guess work- no coverage anywhere in the village.\nNothing in Newborough.\nThe church room is the village hub but it\u2019s not open.\nChange during covid?-Not really. Too many holiday homes around here. Don\u2019t know half of who lives here anymore. It\u2019s not like it used to be\nChange during covid?-Less aware what goes on now.  There is no connection with neighbours or community\nInfo during Covid- Newborough through the ages to an extent, other than that no information was given\nI rely on friends and family to take me to health appointments.\nHave to travel to Dwyran to the doctors.\nHealth appointment? Since Covid? Another joke?\nNo one can access an NHS dentist, even if they have the ability to travel.\nThe community is even more aware of each other now, especially the elderly. There has always been warm welcome to anyone coming into the village. Everyone talks to each other or at the very least acknowledges each other. You cannot walk past anyone who does not say hello.\nGood neighbours. Lovely walks etc. Good broadband.\nAll of the activities are run by locals i.e. Norman Evans. He organises at least one thing each month. Either a meal, afternoon tea, bingo, various talks, flower arranging.  Coffee morning and film evening. Once again organised by locals.\nIn a lot of respects the community has become more aware of each other during COVID. It was already a close community, but more people have stepped forward to help out during lockdowns etc. There are a few Facebook groups that keep the villagers connected\nPeople have been more supportive to each other during covid\nDuring Covid we had a volunteers group. The group posted regular updates on social media and also sent letters out to all the villagers. \nWe have a Ukelele club in the village.\nPlay-park project at Fernie Close, owned by community Council\nAllotments brilliant place to go so lucky to have them\nFootball field\nGood pavements through high street but anywhere else is awful especially down to the woods\nNearest pharmacy is Llanfairpwll but I drive so not an issue.\nNeed safe cycle routes\nSports Development ACC use to support a Nordic walking group but that stopped due to funding it was fab\nWe could do with community transport \nI ask my friends or family for a lift as I can\u2019t drive\nSo lucky I drive I wouldn\u2019t know what I\u2019d do if I didn\u2019t \nTaxi\u2019s are so expensive \nI have to travel at least 5 miles to get to most facilities.\nI would have to look into public transport for distance travel but would walk wherever I can. \nWe have no bus service down our road so are dependent on car travel in general, but this is not a problem\nI can drive a motor car, also have access to a car- don\u2019t know what I\u2019d do otherwise\nBike- I cycle to get about\nWalk as there aren\u2019t any convenient buses\nBus stops no shelter \nBus service is awful\nBus service but don\u2019t use it as connections are awful \u2013 take a full day to do a short journey#\nDon\u2019t feel safe on the buses since COVID\nBuses so dirty and need upgrading \nThey need to make smaller buses that run more regular and to where people need to go not where the bus company think they need to go \nTrain connection is Llanfair PG \nMuch too expensive to travel \nVery little bus service on a Sunday \nBus comes every 1hr 40 mins and about three times per day\nPublic transport - that must be a joke question?\nNever used public transport, but the bus regularly stops outside my house despite the bus stop being down the road. I have friends who use public transport buses mostly and they tell me they are not as regular and timetables keep changing. Also certain routes have been stopped so getting to a particular destination is much harder now.\nI don\u2019t use public transport much as the don\u2019t seem to run at the times when I do need it. \nI'd be stuck if I couldn\u2019t drive. The bus service is infrequent. \nWould use public transport if I couldn\u2019t drive. \nLack of timetable \u2013 all online, what if you\u2019re not online\nBus timetable is too small to read, if you manage to get one \nThe service offered is terrible, can\u2019t make journey\u2019s and have to ask friends\nAlthough there is public transport available, the time table for locals going to and from work or even shopping are sporadic to say the least. The bus times should be made more often as a typical journey can be several hours.\n Anodd gael appointments a buses\nMy husband is wheelchair disabled and does not walk so only travels in his adapters car.\nTransport & waiting times- buses\nWe have a Good Neighbour Scheme\nPeople are too scared to report people breaking the local down rules in case of any come back\nDuring COVID too many people were coming down and breaking the lockdown rules on day visits and staying in their holiday homes \nDon\u2019t feel safe walking to the shop always someone standing outside I always feel so scared sometimes to go \nThere always seems to be trouble in Newborough always seems to be tension\nWe have some beautiful walks, but not enough parking areas for people who come here to walk\nSpeeding cars all over Newborough and rural roads hear them sometime middle of the night racing \nI sometimes feel unsafe - drug users, drunks, anti-social behaviour etc.\nThe level of drug dealing and taking in the village makes it feel unsafe. No one seems to do anything to deter it.\nCommunity cohesion- there are lots of English-speaking families moving in, I\u2019m concerned about the Welsh language and culture.\nThere also seems to be a culture of mistrust and negativity towards people from outside the area.\nThings are quieter now- anti-social behaviour and drug taking was horrendous at one time \nI live on the outskirts of the village but do feel a bit nervous of going to the shop because of drugs there, you can smell the cannabis sometimes the people using hang around the shop/bus shelter and the toilets you just feel a bit uneasy.\nWe need people in Newborough to work together but they don\u2019t, they all have their own agendas no community togetherness\nThere is more drug use, more youngsters involved with it. There is more animosity and aggression.\nNever see the police here\nPolice don\u2019t walk around the village \nPolice don\u2019t communicate with the community; their hours have changed and it\u2019s not easy to get in touch. We can\u2019t have their mobile numbers anymore\nPCSO\u2019s cover too big an area\nPCSO\u2019s are invited to attend Community Council meetings but never turn up\nNeighbourhood dispute- was able to get the PCSO\u2019s number, however find it easier to phone the call centre in Parc Menai and they then contact the Police officer on the radio \nThe road structure in the village of Newborough and Dwyran cannot take the pressure of the traffic now coming to and through\nI report the people down here that shouldn\u2019t be, but the Police do nothing \nLots of drugs in the community everyone seems to know who they are, but the Police do nothing\nTerrible parking in Newborough \nDesperate need for traffic calming\nWhere are the police? Speeding cars - it\u2019s like a race track around Newborough\nWe need more of a police presence, cars parked everywhere on the pavements on junctions double up parking it\u2019s a nightmare trying to get through the village\nNever had cause to contact local police so have no idea who is our community officer.\nWe don\u2019t see Police in our community\nWish police would come to Newborough more often\n \nConcern regarding drugs in the area, it\u2019s always been in the area and a problem that never goes away \nNO idea how to contact the local PCSO\nIf you ring 101 nothing happens no one ever comes out or when they do, they do nothing\nWe need Police on the street \nWe should get young people to become volunteers for NW POLICE \nWe don\u2019t see the police around.\nLocal police are very hit and miss - sometimes respond, sometimes say they are too busy\nAs for a local police man i do not know their name nor do i know how to contact them the same goes for local councillor.\nNot a problem to contact the police but not aware of a local officer  \nHoliday lettings everywhere \nEverybody seems to be converting their homes into Air B&B, who inspects these properties and are they legal?\nSo many holiday homes that there\u2019s nothing left for locals to buy. The prices are so high they cannot afford to buy if they weren\u2019t bought as holiday homes either \nLots of houses for sale but no one local can afford them \nHouses built on odd bits of land, they look out of character \nCommunity Council seem to let any kind of planning application through, they have no vision or want to get Newborough looking like a nice place to live \nUgly boarded up houses in the village looks awful- no idea if they are private/rented/YMCC or housing association? But they need looking at \nLonghurst Group developers looking to build affordable housing . The types of housing offered are shared ownerships, long-term rentals and rent to buy, people want to know who will get these.\nThere is council housing in the village but the houses look so run down. No-one seems to respect their homes\nHouses so on top of each other, just squeeze them in no thought about how families are going to live- no trees or adequate garden space, they look awful \nThere are no houses for sale- young people cannot afford the ones that do come on the market \n9 out of 12 houses on one street in Newborough are holiday homes\nAwful dog fouling need warden \nIs there only one Dog Warden for the Island\nNo street cleaning done by the Council- have only seen the sweeper once or twice in the last year\nLots of litter on the roadside- more now since COVID\nlots of fly tipping in the village and has increased during COVID\nAllotments brilliant place to go so lucky to have\nTwo dog waste bag dispensers in both Llangaffo and Dwyran\nWe had an older people\u2019s walking group but that stopped due to there being no volunteers to take over after the leader passed away \nCoastal Paths\nSome great cycle paths\nACC seem to pump money into tourism what about pumping money into local things for locals\nACC market Newborough as the place to visit but give no support in helping to improve the infrastructure \u2013 the road jams are horrendous\nACC need to help Newborough with a better road structure it cannot continue as it is  \nLocal businesses employ local people \nShame NRW does not employ local people they seem to contract out to mainland companies \nNothing locally for employment mostly cafes, restaurants, cleaning holiday homes\nIf you don\u2019t drive, you can\u2019t get to a better paid job\nNeed to make more use of the empty units in the village and give people a minimal rent or free rent for 12 months to get established \nThere are very little employment opportunities locally \nNRW should recruit young people give them opportunities give them life skills \nCommunity needs to skill joiners and plumbers: tradespeople, not everyone needs to go to university \nOU courses are available\nNo support for new business coming into the area lack of support and help \nMarram Grass have been fantastic employing locals \nMarram Grass gone into liquidation \nThere are businesses like the Marram Grass really trying to make a difference to our community but Anglesey County Council seem to just work against them\nCouncil doesn\u2019t include clauses in big investment and planning applications to ensure trades, servicing, employment and training go to local businesses and people first- i.e. Morlais\nHydraroll is moving all its business to Liverpool- no reason for new businesses to come to the Island- we have to think differently and supporting more smaller business who employ less people.\nCouncil is not forward thinking enough \u2013 no risk taking and backing smaller businesses who want to come to the island- and may end up employing more people than 1 big business.\nM-Sparc is filled by non-tech companies- how do we train and grow new business if that\u2019s the case/\nNot sure who the Community Council are or what they do?\nCommunity Council website is really good, but its lucky I\u2019m on the internet or I wouldn\u2019t see minutes\nWe need more young people on Community Councils- they are the future\nWe shouldn\u2019t have to track down who the Community or County Councillors are, it should be easy to contact them , if you\u2019re not online you\u2019d be forever trying to find out \nNo idea about the Community Council - seem to be a law to themselves, not for the community.\nThe community council appear to do nothing, they have no presence in the community\nWhy does ACC not list to the community needs \nNever heard from local councillor\nNo idea about Community Council \nWho is the Community Council and what are they there to do\nWho are the members?\nNever see and minutes never know when meeting are\nHow does the County Council have money to lend out to other Councils but not have money for our own services that are struggling?\nWish ACC would listen to what our community want/needs\nCounty Councillor Peter Rogers is very supportive always helping in any way he can\nI know how to contact Peter Rogers. \nPeter Rogers very active and very supportive in Dwyran that\u2019s all no idea of anyone else \nCounty Council needs to change the way we are allowed to make payments for Council tax. I want to pay by payment card in the post office, but ACC wants us to pay Direct Debit. If the bank takes the money out automatically, I may go overdrawn and incur chargers. The card also helps the Post Office as I will take my business there.\nCannot go into the County Council officers at the moment- cannot get through to who I need to speak to on the phone or I\u2019m not sure which number to pick\nCannot contact County Council about the school in Llangaffo- bought as a business by lack of engagement by County Council with the Community Council and the business who bought it has slowed the progress and the business may pull out- risk of losing grants etc \nCouncil staff working from home- will this be permanent? It\u2019s not helpful, they\u2019re not communicating with each other or the public effectively\nCommercial properties are being allowed to remain empty- slow process means we\u2019re at risk of losing new, innovative businesses\nCounty Council not listening to Town Council- no answer to letters or email, causing tension in communities and delaying decision making\nM-Sparc is filled by non-tech companies\nCyswllt M\u00f4n \u2013 no good, need an effective face to face service especially for older people. No good trying to move everything online, the lonely and isolated are missing out.\nNo idea how to contact local councillor (cymerud Rhun ap Iorwerth ydio?) .\nClosing local small schools was the wrong thing to do \nSchool rationalisation was the wrong thing to do, should have left primary schools as they where \nOlder people need computer lessons to help them shop on line and keep in touch \u2013 very hard to teach \nThere seems to be more families with children and young people now in Dwyran, bit silly when they\u2019ve shut the primary school \nOpen University\nChildren go to David Hughes School bus picks them up\nChildren go to Newborough primary bus picks them up \nLots of FB pages but not one specific for the village what\u2019s on and what\u2019s happening \nWith no internet I have no idea what\u2019s happening in the village\nSee more people out and about, lovely to see \nFriends and family phoning \nChat in the shop or outside waiting to go in\nLeaflets through the door was really well received people loved the old fashioned way of keeping touch \nKeep in touch by phone or Facebook. No more aware about community. Everyone seems to be staying safe and keeping their distance.\nDuring Covid we had a volunteers group. The group posted regular updates on social media and also sent letters out to all the villagers.\nI've seen information on social media. \nI am lucky to have broadband connections, so I stay in touch with people via Internet.\nWith no internet I have no idea what\u2019s happening in the village  \nWe shouldn\u2019t have to track down who the Community or County Councillors are, it should be easy to contact them, if you\u2019re not online you\u2019d be forever trying to find out \nMedrwn Mon info by FB and booklet\nAge Cymru keeping in touch \nMedrwn M\u00f4n support\nMedrwn M\u00f4n booklet \nLocal volunteers\nNo one seems to want to volunteer but complains if there\u2019s nothing here \nYnys M\u00f4n Council were in regular contact with group admins who forwarded information as necessary. As with anything that is new there were a few hiccups to start off with but once the group was more established it ran well. There are members within the community however who refused any help and found the group intrusive"}}, {"type": "Feature", "geometry": {"type": "Point", "coordinates": [-4.367065, 53.165787]}, "properties": {"name": "No longer in operation", "media": [], "title": "No longer in operation", "_umap_id": "EIhx3", "description": "COVID 19 Area Support Team\nAllotments are a brilliant place to go, so lucky to have to them\nCommunity Allotments"}}]}