Penygroes Community News

Saturday October 11th 2008 was a great day for Penygroes park as it recieved a donation of £370 towards its regeneration.

The West Wales branch of the Federation of Master Builders made the donation at their annual dinner in Tenby towards the provision of play equipment suitable for disabled people.  Each year they support a particular charity and this year they choose to support the efforts of the Penygroes Park Steering Committee in their attempt to upgrade and regenerate the park.  This donation has given the committee a significant boost of moral and also financially.

During the summer, with the help of Menter Cwm Gwendraeth and Carmarthenshire County Council, committee members have been working hard putting together a grant application bid to WREN, a grant scheme linked to Pwllfawatkin Landfill Site in Cwmgorse.  If we are successful we will get £125,000 towards play equipment in the park.  Members of the Youth Club have worked with the committee to choose the equipment so fingers crossed 2009 will see lots of new equipment being errected in the park.

Protex Corporation have been given planning permission to move the entrance to the Emlyn site so that it goes through the new community garden and the library.  There are conditions attached to the permission - a new library and garden must be built first and the Gardening Club must be compensated for their financial loss.  The Forum have today (9th October) handed in a petition to Carmarthenshire County Council asking them not to sell the land which they promised to the community for 15 years so that the garden could be built.  It is very difficult to persuade people to do anything for their community if the result of their hard work is not respected.

The planning application for 3-story houses and appartments on Gorsddu Rd. was not approved and Protex were told to redesign the site so that there are only 2 storey houses and more parking spaces.

Emlyn Development Planning Applications  

I’ve been asked to publish the links to the 5 planning applications submitted by Protex.  If you have an opinion on these applications, it’s important that you let the Council know.  It’ll be too late once the applications are passed.  If you need any help, call in to see me in Neuadd Goffa.

The first (E/16741) relates to moving the entrance to the Emlyn site 50m nearer to the Gorsddu Rd. junction - through the recently-built community garden.

The second (E/16742) relates to amendments to the “Phase 1″ planning application already passed, plus a new application for part of “phase 2″

The 3rd (E/16743) relates to an outline application for moving the rugby club and providing a new youth centre sometime in the future.

The 4th & 5th (E/16744 & E/16745) relate to adding another 3 years onto the time limit for developing parts of the site.

http://www.ukplanning.com/carmarthenshire/showCaseFile.do;jsessionid=D04A9C6B4147630AE50A1C2AEA6AB8B2.wam1?action=show&appType=planning%20folder&appNumber=E/16741

http://www.ukplanning.com/carmarthenshire/showCaseFile.do;jsessionid=D04A9C6B4147630AE50A1C2AEA6AB8B2.wam1?action=show&appType=planning%20folder&appNumber=E/16742

http://www.ukplanning.com/carmarthenshire/showCaseFile.do;jsessionid=D04A9C6B4147630AE50A1C2AEA6AB8B2.wam1?action=show&appType=planning%20folder&appNumber=E/16743

http://www.ukplanning.com/carmarthenshire/showCaseFile.do;jsessionid=D04A9C6B4147630AE50A1C2AEA6AB8B2.wam1?action=show&appType=planning%20folder&appNumber=E/16744

http://www.ukplanning.com/carmarthenshire/showCaseFile.do;jsessionid=D04A9C6B4147630AE50A1C2AEA6AB8B2.wam1?action=show&appType=planning%20folder&appNumber=E/16745

The first meeting of the steering group set up to move forward improvements to Penygroes park and playing fields was held on Thursday evening in Penygroes Rugby Club.  The steering group has representatives of the following community groups:

• Children and Youth Community Group;
• Cricket Club;
• Junior Rugby Club;
• Neuadd Goffa Committee;
• Rugby Club;
• Ward Forum;
• Youth Club.

Representatives of organisations able to help with the development (more…)

The plants for the community garden in front of Penygroes library arrived on Wednesday.  It was then all-hands-on-deck by members of Penygroes Gardening Club (and John, who called to see how it was going and stopped to help).  They had been planted out by the end of the day - ably directed by Julian, who’s been the driving force behind the garden from the beginning.