Town Council wants extra care facility to include a day centre

Welshpool Town Council want the proposed Neuadd Maldwyn extra care facility to include a day centre.

Plans to turn the Grade II listed building into 66 one and two-bedroom apartments were submitted by Clwyd Alyn earlier this year. Two other planning applications for listed building consent and conservation area consent have also been submitted.

The scheme is due to go before Powys County Council planning committee in January with the Town Council already registering planning concerns.

The Town Council recently closed the Ann Holloway Day Centre due to rising costs.

Now Town Clerk Anne Wilson will speak at the planning meeting to ask that day centre facilities are included in the project.

The redevelopment is set to cost in the region of £11.6 million. Estimated to be worth around £660,000, Clwyd Alyn will receive the building for free as PCC’s contribution to the project.

According to the report, the costs of the scheme will be covered by grants of over £6.7 million in from the Welsh Government.

This would be:

·         £4,158, 040 from a Social Housing Grant,

·         £2,562,750 from the Integrated Care Fund

·         The remaining £4,866, 779 will come from Clwyd Alyn themselves.