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The road to a new Anglesey

Anglesey chief executive Richard Parry Jones and leader Bryan Owen outline how changes are being made, to restore credibility.

No-one said it was going to be easy to turn this one around. Locked into a self-defeating culture, Anglesey Council paid the ultimate price in March 2011 when Welsh minister for local government and communities, Carl Sargeant, appointed a team of commissioners to take responsibility for the executive functions of the council.

Yet, 16 months on, all the announcements at Anglesey – and in Cardiff – are all about moving onwards and upwards.

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