English: Thank you. I'd like to request a statement from the Minister for Climate Change on the planning appeal process in Wales. Only last week, our local authority granted conditional approval for 49 homes to be built behind Ysgol y Gogarth. This was a very controversial planning application, with democratically elected members at all levels opposing this, and the planning office themselves opposing this. On a further application placed before the committee last week, there was a u-turn by the officers, in which they decided to support it, and one of the reasons cited was that they were very concerned about the costs associated with any appeal process. I've been asked since, and indeed by constituents over the years, as to why it is that developers who can afford barristers and things have an appeal process for when an application is refused, yet there is no appeal process for applications such as this, which, in my opinion, if you look at 'Planning Policy Wales', actually breaches some of the actual PPW guidance. And so I have raised with the Minister previously whether we could have a fairer system, so that the appeal process works both ways - not only just for the developer, but indeed for the communities and, in fact, the democratically elected members, so that the true voices of the community are able to have a second go at this, because I know there are a lot of aggrieved constituents on many planning applications where planning officers feel obliged to allow an application to go through because they fear the costs of any appeal process. Thank you.
Welsh: Diolch i chi. Fe hoffwn i ofyn am ddatganiad gan y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd ynglŷn â'r broses apêl gynllunio yng Nghymru. Dim ond wythnos diwethaf, fe roddodd ein hawdurdod lleol ni gymeradwyaeth amodol i adeiladu 49 o gartrefi y tu ôl i Ysgol y Gogarth. Roedd hwnnw'n gais cynllunio dadleuol iawn, gydag aelodau a etholwyd yn ddemocrataidd ar bob lefel yn ei wrthwynebu, a'r swyddfa gynllunio ei hun yn ei wrthwynebu hefyd. Ynglŷn â chais arall a roddwyd gerbron y pwyllgor yr wythnos diwethaf, gwelwyd tro pedol gan swyddogion, ac fe wnaethon nhw benderfynu cefnogi hwnnw, ac un o'r rhesymau a nodwyd oedd eu bod nhw'n pryderu llawer am y costau sy'n gysylltiedig ag unrhyw broses apelio. Fe ofynnwyd i mi ers hynny, a chan etholwyr dros y blynyddoedd, yn wir, pam y mae gan ddatblygwyr sy'n gallu fforddio bargyfreithwyr a phethau o'r fath broses apelio ar gyfer achos lle gwrthodwyd cais, ac eto nid oes proses apelio ar gyfer ceisiadau fel hwn, sydd, yn fy marn i, os edrychwch ar 'Bolisi Cynllunio Cymru', yn torri rhai o ganllawiau Polisi Cynllunio Cymru, mewn gwirionedd. Ac felly rwyf i wedi gofyn i'r Gweinidog cyn heddiw a fyddai hi'n bosibl i ni gael system fwy cyfiawn, fel bydd y broses apelio yn gweithio'r ddwy ffordd - nid yn unig i'r datblygwr, ond i'r cymunedau ac, yn wir, mewn gwirionedd, i'r aelodau a etholwyd yn ddemocrataidd, fel gall lleisiau'r gymuned wirioneddol gael ail gynnig yn hyn o beth, oherwydd fe wn i fod llawer o etholwyr yn cael eu tramgwyddo gan lawer o geisiadau cynllunio pryd mae swyddogion cynllunio o'r farn fod rheidrwydd arnyn nhw i ganiatáu i gais fynd drwodd oherwydd eu bod nhw'n gofidio am gostau unrhyw broses apelio. Diolch i chi.