CCBC councillors only have themselves to blame, I believe. They're complaining bitterly that their share of the RSG is very low, given they have the highest proportion of elderly folk living here, so they happily slap almost 12% on the Council tax bills, but when they get overruled by the planning Inspector what do they do?
Complaining to the newspapers simply isn't good enough. If they really believe the council is being treated as badly as they claim, then they only have one course of action: resign en masse. That would force the WA to step in and run Conwy directly, which they - in turn - should refuse to do, so the Government is forced to step in.
That would make the news for some time, yet it requires people of principle and integrity to do it so probably not a lot of hope.