Grade ii listed Oldford Cottage in Welshpool A PLANNING application to build a home in the garden of a listed building in Welshpool has been approved. At a meeting on Wednesday, February 24, councillors on Powys County Council’s (PCC) planning committee discussed a planning application by Jack Tavernor of Powis Estates, to build a two-storey 150 square metre house at the Grade II listed, Oldford Cottage. Oldford Cottage is near Welshpool town centre and Berriew street car park is next to it. The application would also create space to park four cars – with three spaces for the new house and one for the cottage.
THE ownership of Neuadd Maldwyn in Welshpool is set to be transferred to Clwyd Alyn housing association. Powys County Council’s (PCC) Independent/Conservative cabinet approved the transfer of ownership at its meeting on Tuesday, January 26. It follows a mammoth and at times fractious planning committee meeting which took over three hours to discuss the application on Friday, January 22, The £11.6 million plans by Clwyd Alyn to change the former Montgomeryshire Council headquarters into a 66 apartment Extra Care facility for older people was approved. But the the planning approval as well as the deeds transfer is reliant on the Welsh Government, which is considering calling the proposal in for them to decide the scheme.
Neuadd Maldwyn Graphic - how it could look when finished. DECISIONS on planning applications for a £11.6 million transformation of Welshpool’s Neuadd Maldwyn into flats for older people, will ultimately be decided by the Welsh Government. The application by Clwyd Alyn Housing Association to turn the Grade II listed building into 66 one and two-bedroom apartments, could be “called in” to be decided by the Welsh Government. This meant that a decision made by PCC’s Planning committee at their meeting on Friday, January 22, to approve the plans, is for the time being only a “recommendation.” The Welsh Government will inform the authority 21 days after receiving all the relevant documentation whether they are going ahead with a call in, or not.
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Phil Pritchard, the white-gloved guardian of the Stanley Cup, wasn t at the Montreal Forum in June 1993 to witness that rarest of recent NHL sights: a Canadian team raising the silver chalice overhead.
Pritchard was on the job at the time, but in Los Angeles, waiting to see if that season s Canadiens-Kings title series would extend past a fifth game. It didn t - Wayne Gretzky was no match for Patrick Roy - and Pritchard flew to Quebec to facilitate the Habs championship summer shortly thereafter. He ushered the Cup to some of the players hometowns in neighboring Ontario and Vermont, and team and trophy toured La Belle Province, basking in the kind of rave reception from grateful fans that no northerly franchise has enjoyed for the past 28 years.