RESIDENTS are demanding the brakes be put on a £4million college development amid fears of traffic chaos.
Campaigners in Rhos on Sea want solutions to traffic and parking on Llandudno Road ahead of plans for a University Centre at Coleg Llandrillo Cymru.
Nearby Dinerth Road resident Donna Phillips, aged 50, commutes to work during peak hours, and says she often avoided the road due to heavy traffic.
She said: “It’s heaving at school times.
“You take your life into your own hands, especially coming out of the Dinerth Road junction by the garage.
“Sometimes people travel a little faster than they should, and then it’s dangerous.”
A campaign group has been set up in protest at new centre which will provide improved teaching and learning facilities for degree students.
A spokesperson for the Dinerth Hall Road Group said he was concerned about the effect the extension would have on parking in the area, with students and staff already causing problems on neighbouring residential streets by taking up valuable parking spaces during college hours.
He said: “We need to put the brakes on this - if we don’t, it’ll just compound the problem.”
“This happens day in, day out. It starts filling up at 8.30am, despite there still being spaces available in the campus.”
“As a group, we want to see restrictions placed on parking on our roads for everyone but local residents during college hours.”
A traffic survey conducted by the Conwy County Council last September showed insufficient on-campus parking, meaning traffic would spill out onto the main road, which provides access to hundreds of homes.
Cllr Phil Edwards, who represents Llandrillo yn Rhos, has written to the authority’s planning committee in a bid to delay the development.
He said: “This needs to be resolved once and for all and I want to see the full results of this survey being considered before the campus is allowed to grow any more.”