Works on the pavements on one of North Wales’ busiest streets are set to go ahead.

Businesses on Llandudno’s Mostyn Street have refused to pay for repairs to parts of the footpaths they own.

However there are hopes that they will change their mind and work with Conwy Council which will start work on repairing the parts of the path that it owns next year.

About 40 per cent of the public footpaths though are in private hands councillors at today’s meeting of the cabinet heard.

Pavements in the area had become cracked, were deteriorating and with broken slabs, making the street look shabby and creating a risk of tripping.

When the council approached local businesses about them taking part in the repairs including making a financial contribution they were for the most part rebuffed.

Instead members of the cabinet voted to spend a £187,000 capital grant on repairing the 60 per cent of the pavement that it owned.

Only if there was more money to be found would the council then be in a position to repair the rest of the pavement.

Cllr Don Milne, the lead member for the environment and highways, said: “We have a capital allocation to replace part of Mostyn Street pavements. And based on that funding we have been trying to arrange full funding.

"It would be nice to simply say lets replace all of Mostyn Street pavements.

“Unfortunately that is unlikely, we do have the funding to carry out repairs on one stretch.

“In July 2018 letters were sent out to all businesses in Mostyn Street, a total of 35 suggesting the work that would be done and outlining what was required.

“Unfortunately we only own a section of the pavements. Generally where you have verandas or porch areas that gives you a rough guide to where the line is drawn.

"About 40 per cent of the area is owned by the shops adjacent to Mostyn Street. Of those 35 letters we only received 10 replies with four stating they were willing to contribute towards the scheme.

"10 letters were sent out to landlords, three sent responses, none of which were very positive. In the absence of the consensus of the business owners it is proposed to use the capital allocation for the first part of the scheme.”

This will see repairs carried out to the public areas of the pavement only.

There was a hope that businesses would realise that improved pavements would be in their interests over the festive season.

Cllr Milne added: “Businesses may have a change of heart over Christmas.”

Despite the fact that only part of the pavement would be fixed up, the local councillor, Louise Emery welcomed any moves that would see improvements.

She said: “This is very exciting news I think there is a problem and there is a danger of the kerbs coming off. It is the responsibility of the long lease holders to keep their pavements in a good state of repair.

"They can be drab and dated as long as they’re functional then that is fine. So I think they will have gone it’s functional and therefore fine.

"But I think when they see what they are going to look like that will change. I think it’s going to look fabulous. We do have to get on with it, I don’t want to lose this money into the pot.

"I think it’s important that we recognise the retail trade is in trouble, the High Street is struggling and it’s probably something that they feel like the cannot prioritise at the moment.”

Cabinet members approved unanimously plans to carry out the repairs on the council owned pavement using the £187,000 capital allocation.