 The objectors will gather at Aberaeron for the meeting |
A public inquiry into controversial plans to build nearly 5,000 new homes in mid Wales starts on Tuesday. The 15-year scheme has caused a great deal of disagreement in Ceredigion, and even led to a campaign for a London-style mayor in the county.
The inquiry will hear from a number of objectors and the local authority and is expected to finish on 26 May.
In October, its official procedure was explained to those opposing the housing plans.
A Welsh assembly appointed team has been appointed to oversee the public inquiry into Ceredigion County Council's unitary development plan (UDP), which has been one of the main political issues in the county for two years.
The hearing will be held at the council's headquarters in Aberaeron.
The council said the UDP proposed that 4,988 new homes were built over 15 years up to 2016, but there had been 5,700 objections to it.
The total cost of the inquiry is expected to cost about �150,000.
Council leader Councillor Dai Lloyd Evans was accused of standing to make hundreds of thousands of pounds from the UDP, after it emerged he owned land earmarked for potential development.
However, he was subsequently cleared of any wrong doing and no charges were brought after a police investigation.
A campaign for a London-style mayor was launched last year - prompted by the plans to build the new homes in the county.
The subsequent vote in May last year decided to continue with the council cabinet system.
Ceredigion County Council refused to comment ahead of the inquiry, however, a spokesman in October said: "Ceredigion County Council has followed the statutory procedures and guidance in undertaking work required for the unitary development plan at all times.
"Consultation on the draft plan was for a total of two months, not two years.
"There is a statutory duty to consult on plans for a six-week period, and due to the size of the county and to give as many people a chance as possible to comment, we consulted for eight weeks instead.
 Cllr Lloyd Evans was cleared of any wrong doing and no charges were brought |
"It then took just over a year to deal with all the representations and revise the document for more formal consultation in 2002."
Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg (The Welsh Language Society) is one of the objectors to the UDP.
Ahead of the hearing it claims the Welsh language is not being properly represented with important evidence papers having only been written in English.
It will present a formal complaint to the inquiry's inspectors, Stephanie Chivers and Alwyn Nixon, about the issue on Tuesday.
Huw Lewis, its chairman, said: "The second-rate treatment that the Welsh language has received so far during Ceredigion's public inquiry is the cause of grave concern."
The main objector to the housing proposal is the Welsh language pressure group Cymuned.
Since the council's draft plan was made public in 2001, Cymuned has argued that it does not take into account the housing needs of local people.
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The second rate treatment that the Welsh language has received so far during Ceredigion's Public Inquiry is the cause of grave concern 
