Cymuned

Cymuned (translated in English as "community", Welsh pronunciation: [kəˈmɨnɛd]) is a Welsh communities pressure group. Established in 2001, the group campaigns on behalf of local communities in Wales, particularly (but not exclusively) Welsh-speaking and rural ones, which it perceives to be under threat due to demographic change.

Cymuned has campaigned on issues of housing, incomers, and social justice, and describes itself as an anti-colonisation and anti-racist organisation.

Cymuned have orchestrated protests outside estate agents in England that sell second homes in Wales to English people. They have also protested against the Welsh train company Arriva Trains Wales for the lack of use of the Welsh language on its services, and the holiday agents Thomas Cook for banning the use of Welsh in its Bangor branch in 2007.

Critics argue estate agents are providing a commercial service to the Welsh people who contract them to sell or rent their property in return for market value and that the sharp rise in the cost of property in recent years is not confined to Wales but an international phenomenon of the growing world economy, however Cymuned argues that there is a need to create a secondary sustainable local housing market in rural Wales. A new campaign designed to ensure that a sustainable proportion of new homes should be for locals only is based on planning policy that has already been adopted in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, as well as parts of Shropshire, Devon, the Peak District and the Lake District.

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