Overnight fire is believed to have been arson

A huge fire that broke out in Llangollen overnight is believed to have been started deliberately, fire crews say.

Firefighters from Llangollen, Chirk and Corwen were called to Panorama Walk just after 11.30pm yesterday to battle the wildfire.

* For the full story see North Wales Live at: https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/firefighters-battled-llangollen-gorse-fire-18354631

Children's safety is priority says county chief of schools' return

Denbighshire County Council has issued a statement in response to the announcement by Welsh Education Minister Kirsty Williams MS today that schools will re-open in phases from June 29.

The main points of the Minister’s announcement were:

• It is proposed that all schools will start the next phase on 29 June, with the term extended by a week, therefore ending on 27 July. 
• In the next academic year, beginning in September, the intention is that the autumn half-term break will be expanded to two weeks.
• In each school there will be a phased approach. Year groups will be split into cohorts with staggered starts, lessons and breaks. It is expected that this will mean, at most, a third of pupils present at any one time, though schools may need time to reach this level of operation.
• There will be much smaller classes, providing secure dedicated time with teachers and classmates. This time will include online and personalised classroom experience, getting children and teachers ready for a similar experience in September.

Councillor Huw Hilditch-Roberts, Cabinet Lead Member for Education, Children’s Services and Public Engagement, said: “The safety of our children, young people and our staff is a top priority and we would like to reassure parents and guardians that we will do everything it takes to create safe environments for when our pupils and students return.

“The Welsh Government has made it clear from the outset of coronavirus that schools will only re-open in Wales when it is safe to do so, but we recognise that some parents/ guardians may be still have concerns around the timing.

“A lot of work is going on in Denbighshire and across North Wales, to review all our education and school policies and procedures, to make sure they are fit for purpose for new arrangements to be put in place that will allow our schools to open safely.

“We will now consider the details of the announcement in great detail and we will work closely with schools, governing bodies and teaching unions to prepare for re-opening schools, with stringent social distancing measures being introduced in every school. There will be rigorous cleaning and hand hygiene procedures in place and we will ensure that schools have everything they need to operate safely. We await further guidance from Welsh Government in due course.

“Schools will provide information over the coming days and weeks about arrangements  that will be put in place and steps that people must follow to ensure  that the health and safety of all our pupils and staff are protected."

All Welsh schools to re-open on June 29

The BBC us reporting that all schools in Wales will reopen on 29 June, the education minister has said.

For the full story, see:
 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-52895374

Poll starts on return of Saturday morning waste facility

* The Facebook poll created by former county councillor Stuart Davies.

A former Llangollen county councillor has started an online petition asking local people if they want to see the swift return of the Saturday morning waste recycling service on the Pavilion car park. 

The service, in which a small fleet of county council refuse vehicles parked up for a few hours to collect waste brought in by residents, was suspended early in the lockdown.

Current Llangollen county councillor Graham Timms said recently that he and fellow local representative Melvyn Mile were lobbying hard for the return of the service but were experiencing difficulties as the county had said it could not yet ensure it can be carried out observing the required social distancing.

Without the Pavilion service Llangollen people must drive over to the Ruthin recycling site, which is operating an appointments only system, to deposit their household waste.

But now ex-councillor Stuart Davies has posted a poll on Facebook which asks local people to say yes or no to whether they want to see the service resumed as soon as possible.

The online test of public opinion was posted only this morning on the Llangollen & District Noticeboard page but more than 100 people have already voted in favour of a return of the service.

Mr Davies said: "I know our two county councillors are lobbying for the return of the Saturday morning service and I thought a show of public support like this might strengthen their argument."  

Llangollen's lack of suitable waste recycling facilities rapidly becoming a hot topic.

And Clwyd South Senedd Member Ken Skates is looking into whether an agreement exists between Denbighshire and Wrexham for local people to use the Plas Madoc tip.

Since Llangollen's own recycling facility on the A539 was closed in 2007 people from this area have been using either the Wrexham site, or the "pop-up" Saturday morning waste service on the Pavilion car park. 

Both facilities closed when the coronavirus lockdown began about 10 weeks ago but the Plas Madoc facility opened again last week.

Mr Skates asked Wrexham last week if Plas Madoc could be used by local people but, as llanblogger reported earlier today, he was told this was being reserved for Wrexham residents.

Now it has been suggested that some form of agreement was reached between Denbighshire and Wrexham for Llangollen's use of Plas Madoc 13 years ago.

And Mr Skates said today he was seeking clarification from the two councils about whether this is the case.

Llangollen county councillor Graham Timms is also looking into the agreement claim, which was made by Stuart Davies.

Updates on coronavirus from Welsh Government

Latest Covid-19 updates from the Welsh Government are: 

• The Chief Medical Officer for Wales’ statement about the 21-day review of the coronavirus regulations has been published today at https://gov.wales/chief-medical-officer-statement-21-day-review-28-may-2020
• Updated – frequently asked questions about the amended coronavirus regulations: https://gov.wales/coronavirus-regulations-guidance
• Education Minister Kirsty Williams has published a written statement about the young person’s mental health toolkit: https://gov.wales/written-statement-launch-young-persons-mental-health-toolkit
• The weekly testing update is available at https://gov.wales/testing-weekly-update-2-june-2020-coronavirus
• The Office for National Statistics has today published its weekly figures about the number of deaths in England and Wales, including the number of deaths from coronavirus. These figures are different from those published by Public Health Wales as they include all deaths in all settings and cover a different time period.
• The provisional number of deaths from all causes in Welsh residents in the week ending 22 May was 692; this was 80 fewer than the previous week. Of these, there were 134 deaths involving coronavirus. This was just under one in five (19%) of all deaths, and 46 lower than the previous week.
• https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsregisteredweeklyinenglandandwalesprovisional/latest
• Many of Wales’ local authorities are now embarking on the first phase of resuming library services – with a Click and Collect service.
• All the library services of local authorities have continued to offer resources throughout the crisis, such as e-books and e-magazines through the Digital Library. Welsh Government provided £250,000 towards digital library resources which enabled public libraries to provide additional resources during the crisis and has led to Libraries seeing a dramatic increase in the number of individuals accessing digital resources.
• https://gov.wales/libraries-introduce-click-and-collect-service
   

• Public Health Wales has today confirmed a further 67 cases of coronavirus in Wales today bringing the total number of cases to 14,121 – the real figure will be much higher.
• Sadly, there were a further seven deaths reported by Public Health Wales today, bringing the number of confirmed coronavirus deaths reported by Public Health Wales to 1,354. 

Where to find the latest information

• Public Health Wales provides a daily update about the number of cases of coronavirus in Wales. It is available at: https://phw.nhs.wales/news/public-health-wales-statement-on-novel-coronavirus-outbreak/
• Information about coronavirus is available on the Welsh Government’s website at https://gov.wales/coronavirus and https://llyw.cymru/coronafeirws
• Queries about support for businesses, including about eligibility for the Economic Resilience Fund? Visit the Business Wales website https://businesswales.gov.wales/coronavirus-advice/
• If you can help the effort to produce PPE in Wales please visit https://businesswales.gov.wales/news-and-blogs/news/provision-critical-equipment-and-personal-protection-equipment-ppe
• The Welsh Government holds a daily media briefing about coronavirus. These are on-the-record, on-camera and routinely supported by a BSL translator. They will be held at 12.30pm every week day. They are live-streamed on our @WelshGovernment Twitter channel and are broadcast live on BBC One Wales and S4C.

Health Minister Vaughan Gething held today’s press conference – you can watch again at: https://twitter.com/WelshGovernment/status/1267780527655841798

Firefighters tackle wildfire on Panorama Walk

Denbighshire Free Press is reporting online this morning that firefighters have been tackling a blaze in Llangollen overnight.

North Wales Fire and rescue Service received a call just before 11.30pm on Tuesday reporting a wildfire in Panorama Walk.

Crews have been tackling the flamed through the night.

A spokesman told the Leader the incident involves two seats of fire.

Three crews and a wildfire unit are still in attendance at the site this morning.

https://www.denbighshirefreepress.co.uk/news/18492374.crews-battle-llangollen-wildfire-overnight/?fbclid=IwAR089lb8cD1NOhPP4LjVuAJKnbozG_InqreM7Ly5yg-0EQz8mz-Ezqq8x08

* A picture of the fire in the distance supplied to llanblogger by Stuart Davis.

Fringe cancelled but team has other plans in mind

This year's Llangollen Fringe in its usual form has been cancelled due to the coronaviris crisis.

But the team behind the popular annual event has come up with a number of other ways to keep up interest in the arts and music festival. 

Subject to the coronavirus restrictions, this is what they plan to deliver over the summer and into next year: 

* July 17-26 - some online Fringe activities details of which are to follow 

* September 22 and into 2021 - A series of Town Hall gigs featuring the headline performers they had planned aimed at showcasing the usual eclectic Fringe mix of performances

* After July 17 - a day of entertainment on Centenary Square. This will be a free, public event and will be staged at the first available opportunity. The aim is to make this a fun day which also serves as a showcase for local talent.

In a message to supporters, Fringe organisers say: "If you, or someone you know, can provide a 20-30 minute performance ‘at the drop of a hat’, please get in touch with Chris."

Festival ticket holders are asked to either send an email to the Fringe which organisers say will result in a full refund, or let them hold onto the cash, which will mean: 

* You will be welcome to come along to all the planned headliner gigs, free of charge

* Receive 50% off next year’s Festival Ticket and

* Come along to one of the Fringe's monthly comedy clubs

The team adds in its message: "Our videographer has accumulated hours of Fringe footage over the last 10 years or so and we are putting together a compilation of highlights.  

"Is there a special moment you would like to see?  If so, and we have it recorded, send an email here and we will include it on our website.

"We thank you for your most valued support and hope you can enjoy the ‘little bit of us’ that we are trying our hardest to bring to you this year.  

"Let us all hope we can get back to normal, if that exists anymore, soon… and certainly in time for next year."

More Covid volunteers are highlighted by Cat

To mark the current National Volunteer Week, Cat Meade, co-ordinator of Llangollen Coronavirus Help Group, has turned the spotlight on more groups helping the town through the the pandemic crisis.

She says of them on Facebook:

Zero Food Waste and Food Share Llangollen 

These guys Volunteer ALL YEAR round, these past 10 weeks they have supported more and more local families, nothing is too much and they ALWAYS do it with a SMILE 

Jane Louise Tornado Kalamity Wild Stephanie Mitchell Lesley Greasley

Jane started the food parcels when we first went into Lockdown, I was messaging orders day after day and with the team they got delivered that very day.

Kirsty had the idea of the VE DAY packages, which together with our Volunteers, Steve chef The Swan Inn, Pontfadog and the lovely Pretty Vintage Tearoom and Barista Coffee we all pulled together to make it a memory for those in Lockdown.

Steph never stops delivering, always happy to help, her daughter is following in her footsteps and has started a small business making jewellery with 70% of everything sold going to the Foodshare Fund, please support.

Lesley is not only doing food deliveries and helping, she has also been preparing and cooking hot food for the vulnerable. 

The Foodshare require their own FULL TIME premises in TOWN as they are currently using the Pengwern hub, but this is only during lockdown, Pref somewhere with a kitchen facility that can become their full time base. If you can help please contact one of the ladies. 

Please join me in saying A HUGE THANK YOU TO THE LADIES THAT ARE FEEDING THIS TOWN DAILY. 

https://www.facebook.com/110793237011195/posts/251320449625139/

Food Share itself said: "Here is just *some* of the shopping we've done today to make food parcels to support people in our #llangollenfamily

Today alone, 3 unpaid volunteers have done 10 hours' work behind the scenes, and that's before we do our surplus round at 8pm.

Cat goes on: 

A big THANK YOU to Lisa Griffiths 

Lisa has been a Volunteer for 10 weeks, been with the team from day 1. I assign her tasks 4/5 days a week sometimes more than once a day, Lisa has been a PRIME volunteer assisting the elderly with shopping, picking up a list for Aldi, HB along with collecting the orders I submit for residents to Stans, collecting and delivering.

Lisa also helped in the delivery of VE Day packages and the 3,000 leaflet drop we delivered 2 weeks ago.

Any time I message (sometimes at short notice) she says YES and does it with a smile.

I have had a lot of residents comment on how friendly, lovely and helpful Lisa has been with them.

Lisa does all of this while being a mum at home, she doesnt want the limelight and is a genuine lovely lady.

Please join me in saying a BIG THANK YOU to Lisa, you have the heart of an Angel. Amazing lady.

Also on Facebook Cat has made a plea for funds to help her group keep up the good work.

She says: "Every Little Helps Llangollen. Funds are very low, please help us to keep supporting.

The link to the group's gofundme page is: 

https://www.gofundme.com/f/llangollen-covid-19-support-group?sharetype=teams&member=4053532&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_na+share-sheet&pc_code=ot_co_dashboard_a&rcid=d4ead1c6aa73426980f4d36b658fb652&fbclid=IwAR3qnH-dNF5S5WLwHbjqiCZnl92omR52NT5acTc8S8Yz8OCy2ZRw79l73cU

LlanBikeFest 2020 is cancelled due to Covid-19

Llangollen Motorcycle Festival - LlanBikeFest – has been cancelled for 2020 because of Covid-19. 

But organisers are already planning for it to be "back with a bang" in 2021.

Billed as Wales’ premier motorcycle festival on August 1 and 2, the event was expected to attract thousands of enthusiasts in its sixth year. 

But with Wales still off limits for visiting bikers, it’s uncertain restrictions will be lifted by then. 

Traders and people who have already booked online are being given full refunds, say organisers.

Event manager Deb Rogers said: “LlanBikeFest has grown and grown since we started in 2015 as a festival for everyone who loves bikes, run by people who love bikes. 

"Its success is driven by the hard work of dozens of supporters and volunteers, as well traders, exhibitors and the public. 

"There is such goodwill towards LlanBikeFest that we are confident we will bounce back better than ever next year.”

* More details and images on www.llanbikefest.co.uk and Facebook.

Cat casts the spotlight on Llangollen's volunteer heroes

* Chloe Jane Chard has been volunteering at the newsagents in Castle Street.

To celebrate the current National Volunteers' Week, Cat Meade, co-ordinator of the Llangollen Coronvirus Help Group, has taken to Facebook to shine the spotlight on two sets of volunteers whose actions have stood out during the Covid-19 crisis.

They are Chloe Jane Chard, who has been helping out at the newsagents in Castle Street, and the team at Dee Valley Produce in Oak Street.

Cat says of them:

Chloe has been assisting Newsagents Castle Street as a Volunteer for the past 10 weeks, working 6 days a week delivering to those hard to reach areas of Llangollen and surrounding areas, using her moped she has turned up every day to ensure those newspapers got to their rightful owner who were awaiting their delivery.

Last week Chloe's moped broke down, rather than say she couldn't help she went on her way, on foot to deliver. 

I asked Chloe to tell me a bit about herself so I could share ...

"Hi, my name's Chloe and I’m 17 years old. My lifelong aspiration is to join the military as a nurse and out of lockdown I attended the military awareness course provided my North Wales training in Kinmel Camp, Bodelwyddan. I am a registered nursing cadet with the Royal College of Nursing and awaiting a clinical placement in Wrexham Maelor but due to current circumstances that has been postponed."

Cat says: PLEASE join me in saying a BIG THANK YOU to Chloe, our next Generation, proud of you Chloe and well done. I have a little gift coming your way."

* Part of the team who have kept Dee Valley Produce open during the Covid crisis. 

Dee Valley Produce

Please see below A THANK YOU from Sam & Wayne for all the Volunteers who have assisted with deliveries these past 10 WEEKS.

The Staff at the shop have worked long hard hours to keep the fresh produce coming to your door, the Volunteers have ensured every request has been fulfilled.

Thank you all, and please ensure we remain LOYAL to this fantastic LOCAL BUSINESS on the other side. 

The shop's team themselves say: "The past few months have been a very scary and uncertain time for all of us, we would like to send out a huge thank you to our wonderful staff and volunteers who have helped us through this tough time! 

"We couldn’t of done it without them, we are forever grateful especially to our staff members who have worked really hard ....

"Rhian Davies, David Dillon, Jordan Hamner, Heather Pritchard-Jones, Sophie Preston, Julie Davies, Ann and Dave Bithell, Robin Williams, Karen Maurice, Phillipa, Tony & Harry Capstick, Vicky Davies, Howard Jones, Amy (Three Eagles). You are all amazing.

"Wayne, Sam & family." 

Cat has promised to feature more volunteers during the course of the week.  

County appeals for people to follow new 'stay local' guidelines

Denbighshire County Council has thanked residents for supporting the national Stay at Home messages over recent weeks in the efforts to protect communities from coronavirus – but has now urged people to stay local and keep Wales safe.

From today Welsh Government has confirmed that two households in the same local area will be able to meet outdoors, but must follow social distancing guidelines and strict hand hygiene practices to control the spread of the virus.

'Local' means not generally travelling more than 5 miles from home to reduce the risk of coronavirus spreading from one area to another and the Council would like to make it clear that beauty and tourist spots in Denbighshire and throughout the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, including country parks,  remain closed until further notice.

Councillor Tony Thomas, Cabinet Lead Member for Housing and Communities, said: “The people of Denbighshire and other parts of Wales have played a crucial role in reducing the spread of coronavirus in our communities and we want to thank them for their efforts to stay at home and follow national guidelines.

“We recognise that the guidance has now changed, which allows people to stay local and allowing two households to meet in the outdoors.  All that we’re asking people to do is follow the guidelines and let’s play our part in keeping Wales safe.

“We have also been pleased that the vast majority of visitors have stayed away from our beauty spots.  The great weather we have experienced has made it really tempting for people to get out and visit our scenic countryside and beaches but we are asking visitors to continue to follow the guidelines and to stay away for the time being.  We will be opening up Denbighshire to visitors as soon as we can, but will not do so until the time is right."

MS probes possible agreement for Llan people to use Plas Madoc tip

With Llangollen's lack of suitable waste recycling facilities rapidly becoming a hot topic, Clwyd South Senedd Member Ken Skates (pictured) is looking into whether an agreement exists between Denbighshire and Wrexham for local people to use the Plas Madoc tip.

Since Llangollen's own recycling facility on the A539 was closed in 2007 people from this area have been using either the Wrexham site, or the "pop-up" Saturday morning waste service on the Pavilion car park. 

Both facilities closed when the coronavirus lockdown began about 10 weeks ago.

But while Wrexham has now re-opened Plas Madoc, the Pavilion service has not yet been reintroduced.

Mr Skates asked Wrexham last week if Plas Madoc could be used by local people but, as llanblogger reported earlier today, he was told this was being reserved for Wrexham residents.

Now it has been suggested that some form of agreement was reached between Denbighshire and Wrexham for Llangollen's use of Plas Madoc 13 years ago.

And Mr Skates said today he was seeking clarification from the two councils about whether this is the case.

Llangollen county councillor Graham Timms is also looking into the agreement claim, which has been made by his county council predecessor Stuart Davies.

llanblogger will keep readers updated on developments.

Why Llan residents can't use the Plas Madoc waste recyling site

* Wrexham's Plas Madoc recycling centre.

Light has been shed on why Wrexham is unable to assist Llangollen people with their lack of waste recycling facilities.

With the nearest facility being at Ruthin, but like the rest of those in Denbighshire restricted to an appointment-only system to observe social distancing, there have been growing calls for a more localised way for people to dispose of their rubbish. 

On llanblogger former Llangollen county councillor has backed calls for the re-introduction of  Saturday morning recycling at the Pavilion car park which was stopped when the lockdown began.

This idea has been gathering support on social media. 

There have also been suggestions that Llangollen residents should be able to use the Plas Madoc  recycling facility in neighbouring Wrexham.

But llanblogger has been shown a copy of the reply Ken Skates received from a Wrexham Council official last week when he asked them if this would be possible.

The email, from a senior environment department official and dated last Thursday, says: "I refer to your e-mail regarding the above addressed to the Chief Executive which has been passed to me to provide a response.

"This is an already massively oversubscribed service to which our residents are entitled and indirectly support through their Council Tax and as such we need to restrict it to them. 

"We have had people from many, many miles away trying to use these sites and we are unable to take on the waste responsibility of other local authorities so have put the controls in place to protect our interests.

"To allow anybody to utilise the HWRC (Household Waste Recycling) sites in Wrexham would cause even more congestion than now and would put an unfair weighting onto Wrexham County Borough Council. To open the HRWC sites was a major political and logistical exercise carried out solely for the benefit of the residents of the Borough.

"Denbighshire are currently working on the final details for opening their HRWC sites following the same guidelines as we did and will be putting similar control measures in place, so the residents of Llangollen will need to utilise the HWRC's within their own County when the opportunity presents itself."      

Eisteddfod stages online event in wake of Covid cancellation

An online taste of Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod is to be staged this summer.

In a bid to stay connected with worldwide audiences following the cancellation of this year's festival in March due to the coronavirus crisis, it will host a free-to-view web event entitled Llangollen Online #ConnectingtheWorld.

Between June 1 until July 11 viewers will be able to vote for their favourite archive footage from previous festivals going back over the past 25 years.

From today, working in collaboration with media partners Rondo Media, the eisteddfod will be screening the classic footage and asking people to vote for their favourite moment until the end of the month. 

The archive material will be presented in five categories: Mixed, Chamber and Youth Choirs, Single Voice and Barbershop Choirs, Children’s Choirs, Folk Groups and Choirs and Adult and Youth Dance. 

Vote winners in each category will be announced daily during what was due to be eisteddfod week from July 7-11.

During that week audiences will be able to see new content to complement the archive footage.

This includes Heddwch a Harmoni: Byd gwâr yw ein byd o gân, lines by renowned Welsh poet, Mererid Hopwood, which focus on the eisteddfod’s founding principles to bring international communities together in peace and harmony.

Eisteddfod artistic director,Edward-Rhys Harry said: “It felt vital to bring our global community together to share music and dance and of course, continue a message of peace and harmony. 

"Normally at this time of year, our staff, volunteers and local community are working full speed to deliver the festival, and we have also had lots of messages from overseas participants telling us how much they are missing us and the experience. So in some way we wanted to be able to connect and share on a different platform this year as best we can.”

He added: “There is a whole host of activity surrounding this. On Tuesday the Peace Message will be children and youth-centric, so will, in effect, replace the Children’s Day message this year. 

"The Thursday message will be centred around several major events - a message from our president Terry Waite, the new commission by Mererid Hopwood, who will help narrate this, along with a number of our volunteers, children and other participants, and a song of peace and hope.”

Gareth Williams, Rondo Media said: "Over the past few weeks, we've been going through the eisteddfod archive which includes 25 years of footage showcasing performers from 57 different countries and well over 10,000 competitors. 

"In 2019, leading up to eisteddfod week, we held an online voting competition to find the Choir of the World Champions. 

"It proved to be hugely popular and so we knew there was appetite amongst our core international eisteddfod audiences for something similar. We have also been working with S4C for many years to share."

The Welsh Government recently announced funding for Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod to help with business continuity through 2020, including planning and preparation for the 2021 events.

Minister for International Relations and Welsh Language, Eluned Morgan, said: “The Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod is one of Wales’ signature summer events and I’m delighted that we’ll still be able to get a digital experience this year.  

"The innovation and creativity shown by our events and creative industries sector has been excellent - and is allowing people from across the world to come together and provides a platform to share and celebrate during these unprecedented times.”

* Voting opens today on Llangollen.TV and closes on June 30. More details of the programme and events will be released over the coming weeks on social media and Llangollen.net.

Ex-councillor's solution to Llan's recycling issue

* The Pavilion car park where the Saturday morning refuse collection service was based until it was shut down by the Covid crisis.

The lack of recycling facilities in Llangollen, highlighted during the current lockdown, has become a local talking point with calls for the Saturday morning facility at the Pavilion car park to be reinstated as soon as possible.

Here former Llangollen county councillor Stuart Davies gives his views on the issue ...

Recently residents are up in arms on Facebook and are rightly concerned that the ability to use Plas Madoc for recycling has been stopped for Llangollen residents. 

I was part of the solution when the contractor who used to run the Llangollen Wenffrwyd site walked away because the entrance was too dangerous to get their large wagons in and out. 

We put in a system whereby we could use the Plas Madoc site and DCC wagons would be sent to the Pavilion on a Saturday to pick up rubbish as well. This has continued up until recently, with promises to put in a recycle centre for us coming to nothing.

Officers have allegedly recently said that they know nothing about these arrangements. However ,the Environment Scrutiny meeting records from October 2007 quite clearly show that DCC and Wrexham were in agreement to our use of Plas Madoc.

https://moderngov.denbighshire.gov.uk/CeListDocuments.aspx?CommitteeId=147&MeetingId=3118&DF=25%2F10%2F2007&Ver=2&LLL=0&fbclid=IwAR3gN-uGe9KBUJV-dm_Zipgs-uOxf3ofgQj9oYRYAUVH09Pa0BO8zeMlxdY

Steps now need to be taken to address the lack of facilities here in the Dee Valley, at the very least the wagon at the Pavilion on a Saturday morning needs to be re-instated immediately. 

The excuse that C9 makes it too dangerous and we should take our waste to Ruthin. Really?

It does not wash with me, there is plenty of space at the Pavilion car park for the operators to keep their distance and what is more dangerous, the public driving to Ruthin to the recycle centre there in close proximity to the operators or them coming to Llangollen where there is plenty of space?

I am calling on our members to get their act together and get the Lead Member and Environment Officers to get our service back ASAP and to re-open talks with Wrexham to reinstate our use of Plas Madoc recycling centre.

Stuart Davies