Campaigners fighting the closure of an Anglesey primary school say consultation on its future shouldn’t happen during pandemic During a time where everything is virtual, campaigners fighting to save Ysgol Talwrn, Llangefni, from closure feel as though their voices are not being heard due to pandemic restrictions. At a virtual meeting held by Rhun ap Iorwerth, Member of the Senedd for Ynys Môn, campaigners expressed serious concerns that the restrictions in place due to Covid-19 have hindered their ability to oppose the plans effectively. They have called on the local authority to postpone the consultation process until they can object to the proposals fully and fairly.
£16m Llangefni area schools reorganisation. (top left) Ysgol y Graig, (top right) Ysgol Corn Hir, (bottom left) Ysgol Gymuned Bodffordd, (bottom right) Ysgol Gynradd y Talwrn. Images courtesy of Google Streetview. A £16m schools reorganisation plan on Anglesey will now go ahead after it received unanimous backing from councillors. The plans will see the “not fit for purpose” Ysgol Corn Hir in Llangefni knocked down with a new school built near the existing site. The Ysgol y Graig school site will also be expanded as part of the project. However, Ysgol Gynradd y Talwrn will close as part of the reorganisation.
£16m Anglesey schools reorganisation to go ahead despite protests
One school will close but a new facility will be built in Llangefni
14:16, 18 DEC 2020
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A £16m schools reorganisation plan on Anglesey will now go ahead after it received unanimous backing from councillors.Â
Ysgol Gynradd y Talwrn, Anglesey. Screengrab from Google Streetview. Opponents of plans to shut an Anglesey primary school have failed in their latest bid to block a £6m reorganisation of education in the Llangefni area. Meeting on Thursday, the council’s Corporate Scrutiny Committee voted to recommend the closure of Ysgol Talwrn and to build an extention at Ysgol y Graig which will increase the capacity of the 2009-built school to 480. The recommendation, which will now go to the Executive for a final decision next week, would see the 38-pupil school close after the new block at the Llangefni primary is completed by the summer of 2023.