“Not getting anywhere” with ClwydAlyn over Oldford playpark
For five years, veteran town councillor, Phil Pritchard, has been leading the call for a playpark to be provided for Welshpool’s largest housing estate, which is managed by ClwydAlyn.
But since coming into office in March, Town Clerk, Richard Williams, said he had held two initial meetings with ClwydAlyn’s local representative to discuss the issue, but the trail had run cold since October.
“I have written to them four times and I am not getting anywhere,” Mr Williams reported to councillors last night. “If anyone else has any contacts at ClwydAlyn, then I can try them. I can write to them again, but they just ignore me.
“I want to give council reassurance that this is not just sitting on my desk not doing anything. We are trying to progress forward but it is just hitting the barriers.”
“At the end of the day, we have the largest estate in this town, with the most children in this town, still the one without a play area.
“There are children two, three, four years of age crossing the main Berriew Road to the play area at Maesydre. That playpark is for the whole town with the sports pitches not for Oldford.”
Councillors agreed to “keep the pressure” on ClwydAlyn, and Mr Williams said he would revert back with an update.
The council’s position (as agreed at the October meeting)
- To enter into negotiations with ClwydAlyn in respect of the current Scansis Pitch lease;
- To include the green space adjacent to the pitch in these negotiations;
- To ask ClwydAlyn to build a playpark on this site; and
- To take responsibility for this area in respect of maintenance, once the new park has been
built.
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