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Wil, Wrexham.
For Brian Stapley and Sam Evans, Brymbo. Private Eye, issue no. 1229, 6th to 19th February, page 11, "It's a Steel". Half column article outlining payment of £14.7 million to shareholders of coverall parent company Parkhill 2000, via Brymbo Developments and Grandkeep Ltd. owned by 3 named individuals. I have the names but must take care. Now the same company wants planning permission for more houses from Wrexham CBC before it will think about building your "spine road" and all the other items promised but not forthcoming at the former Steelworks site. The ever popular Wrexham planners get a mention too, being described as "dozy". Not a fair description of our favourite people surely?
Mon Feb 16 10:43:03 2009
Susan Briscoe
Visiting the site at Lodge near Brymbo yesterday to recycle cardboard, I saw a notice stating that the site will be closed until March for some sort of redevelopment and that we are to use the site at Wrexham Industrial Estate or Plas Madoc instead. Closed for over SIX months?
I live in Brymbo. As I never visit the industrial estate or Plas Madoc for any reason, this would mean a 20 mile round trip to either site to recycle metal, cardboard, old electrical equipment etc. Surely not in the interests of the environment.
Are refuse collection services going to be extended to include items other than household waste, glass, plastic, paper & garden refuse while this closure is on? Not that I've heard. This was the first I heard about the closure.
No doubt there will be an increase in illegal and annoying fly tipping around the area as a result of it. With general household waste (black bin) collections now only once a fortnight, it will be impossible to dispose of all the cardboard packaging via the main bin or else it will be overflowing.
I compost all vegetable & garden waste and wrap rubbish before putting it in the black bin, but have noticed a big increase with flies this summer and when the bin wasn't collected for 3 weeks due to the council strike, it STANK.
When will Wrexham Council start living up to their supposedly "green" credentials?
Thu Sep 11 09:29:37 2008
Brian Stapley ,Brymbo
Good idea from Sam Evans, but I have to say that we as Community Councillors are not giving ourselves a pat on the back, because there is still a great deal to do. For example we must keep pushing the local authority to get on with the permissions for the rest of the former steelworks site to be developed, this would include:- The spine road to link Brymbo to the outside world, then this would start the industrial area for employment, the area that has been put aside for a new school, and something that this community has been asking for - some sort of supermarket, the land for all of this and more is there to be used, but the whole community must get off its backside and support the Community Council.
Fri Aug 15 09:10:22 2008
Sam Evans
Brymbo Enterprise Centre:
The 'Hub' of Brymbo and the surrounding communities, All this investment, all the media coverage yet NO way of finding out what's going on there via today's advertising and promotional tool, 'The Internet'. What a let down! Councillors and community workers giving eachother a pat on the back for all there hard work! Yet no one can find out what's going on there! Is it just a members only club! Can someone put this in the suggestion box there please!
Wed Jun 18 08:36:42 2008
Mark Winson (development officer for the Welsh Scouts Council)
A new development initiative in Brymbo, run by the Welsh Scout Association, has successfully created a brand new Beaver Colony (Scouting for 6-8 year boys and girls). The twenty children are now ready to go into uniform, to make their promise and become proper Beaver Scouts. But wait, there is a problem, the new section is presently housed in the Brymbo Enterprise Centre, which despite the help and assistance of the excellent management team there, can only continue to afford to stay whilst being supported by grants and gift aid. New premises are needed. Work done has identified the old community centre on Ael Y Bryn as perfect for the job. Viewings have been completed, business plans and financial accounts in support of an application to take a 15 year lease, have been submitted to Wrexham council. Local support has rallied, the Scout Association has arranged for the development officer to continue and create a new Cub Pack (Scouting for 8 to 10 yrs boys and girls), the local mother & toddler club have expressed an interest in using the premises and adults have been identified to provide the new management committee. “Great” you would think! BUT the recent meeting of the Asset Management Committee of Wrexham Council has advised its decision making Executive Committee, not to allow this – preferring instead to “put it on the open market” and sell to the first builder or developer no doubt! We do not want to see the 20 children of the 1st Brymbo Beaver Colony out of a home, and therefore disbanded. We do not want to let down those children ready to become Cub Scouts, or those already a part of the mother & toddler club. We do not want our community not to be able to benefit from the many promises already received from Brymbo residents, to hire these premises for party’s, dances and other clubs. But, without help from a compassionate Wrexham Executive Committee, that is exactly what will happen!
Fri Nov 23 10:26:00 2007
