Council planning committee asked to approve plans, but final approval lies with the Welsh Government.
Controversial plans to finally demolish a 115-year-old pier will go before a council next week.
Conwy County Council will seek to pull down Colwyn Bay’s Victoria Pier at its planning meeting on Wednesday.
However, even if the council decides to approve plans to dismantle the Grade II listed structure, Welsh Government ministers will have the final say.
Council officers believe the cost of sustaining and refurbishing the Victorian structure cannot be justified in the current financial climate.
A report to councillors explained 76 stanchions – the vertical columns supporting the pier – would be retained and the existing sea wall would be extended across the former entrance.
A vision of what could be put in its place was revealed last year when the council floated the idea of projecting an image of what the pier looked like in the early 1900s onto netting suspended above the sea wall.
The plans come after Colwyn Victoria Pier Trust failed in a bid to win Heritage Lottery cash last month, with the funding organisation intimating a lack of support from the county council affected the decision.
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