A PROPOSAL to install a 24 hour cash machine in the glass window of a convenience store, in a historic part of Caernarfon has been approved.
Cyngor Gwynedd planners agreed with condition to site an ATM through the shop front of the Caernarfon Convenience Store on Bridge Street.
The site falls within the World Heritage site and is adjacent to the boundary Caernarfon Town Walls scheduled monument.
The application has been made by Ann-Marie Porter of Euronet Worldwide – through the agent Desmond Ager of Des Ager Planning Consultants.
The plans describes the machine to be installed through the shop front window to the left of the entrance doors. The proposed machine will be a standard NCR Self Serve rear loading ATM.
Plans say the machine is “to provide 24 hour banking facilities for customers of Caernarfon Convenience Store and Caernarfon retailers, replacing the adjacent ATM at the Santander Branch, removed when the bank closed in June, 2025”.
The plans say “the installation has been designed to anticipate and overcome the restriction that would prevent disabled persons from making full use of the service… together with the needs of more vulnerable people from protection of attack and intimidation”.
It will include a non-illuminated top sign in blue and yellow with white lettering “Fee Cash Withdrawals” and the Euronet logo.
In a planning document, in comments from Cadw, it was noted that the application area was located “immediately adjacent to the boundary of scheduled monument CN034 Caernarfon Town Wall and in the identified essential setting of the Caernarfon Castle and Town Walls section of The Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd World Heritage Site”.
However it was noted that “the proposed signs would not be directly visible in views to and from the scheduled monuments”.
The historic watchdog body had no objections to the scheme but did have some “concerns” about illuminated signs in this part of Caernarfon.
But it noted “assuming the light levels of the proposed illuminated sign are no more than those of the current ATM at the neighbouring Santander Bank (which was understood to be removed) then the proposed signage will not have an impact on the settings of the scheduled monuments or the outstanding universal value of the World Heritage Site”.
The plans also noted the proposed ATM is expected to have “a reasonably high level of transactions”.
