Local housing association Tai Ceredigion are to offer a compromise to Maesglas residents in the long running dispute over the play area on the Cardigan housing estate.

Tai Ceredigion chief Steve Jones said that the association were willing for the town council to take on the upkeep of the park - as long as they could build a disabled-friendly bungalow on the site of the garages.

The offer was revealed in a head to head on national radio when Mr Jones and Maesglas campaigner Gwyneth Morris were interviewed on BBC Radio Wales Morning Call.

The discussion centred around village greens and the need for open space.

Mr Jones said that the Maesglas village green campaign was "cynical" and "vexatious", adding that only half of the residents on the estate were paying for the play area's upkeep.

"The question is who pays," he said.

"At the moment we have 70 tenants paying charges through their rent for this land. It means that the lowest paid people in the community are paying for this while residents who have bought their house use it for free."

He added that he had made an offer to local county councillor John Adams-Lewis for the town council to maintain the site at a peppercorn rate.

Mrs Morris, one of the founder members of the North Cardigan Action Group, said the village green application - which is due to go to a public inquiry next month - was made to secure the play area which has been used by generations of locals.

She claimed that the garages had been left to deteriorate by Tai Ceredigion despite the fact they were wanted for rent by local residents.

She also claimed the site was not suitable for a bungalow as it was prone to flooding.

Planning applications by Tai Ceredigion to build homes on the site have been thrown out by Ceredigion planners and the Welsh Assembly.