Peter Dive moved his family to Wales for what he hoped would be a dream lifestyle (Image: Peter Dive) A businessman who moved his family to Wales for what he was hoping would be a dream lifestyle says it has turned into a nightmare and cost him thousands of pounds. Peter Dive says he has now returned to England because his dreams have collapsed due to a planning war with a local authority. Suffolk-based Mr Dive bought 20 acres of land and a number of derelict properties in Trawsfynydd in the Eryri (Snowdonia) national park in February 2023 in the hope he could create a tourism hotspot where he would also live.
He wanted to turn the listed Rhiw Goch Inn, which he bought at auction for £200,000, into a pub and restaurant while he would live in the neighbouring bungalow with his family and oversee luxury cabins and glamping pods, WalesOnline reports . He also wanted to reinstate tobogganing and skiing at the previously popular slopes at the site and had hoped it would become a destination for weddings and other occasions. But he said that within weeks he realised that by buying a listed building in a national park he'd walked into a planning nightmare which proved to be his "worst investment".
A year on he has all but given up on the dream and has moved back to Suffolk with his children while the fire-ravaged buildings remain largely untouched because he can't get planning applications through. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.createElement('script');el.
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