Felinfoel Community Centre Consultation

Communities First Felinfoel held an open consultation evening for local residents to view the plans for their new community centre on Wednesday.

The new community building will bring much needed facilities into the community and will replace to outdated Pavilion. The two floor building will consists of sporting facilities on the ground floor, including male and female changing rooms, a physio therapy room, showers, toilets, ample storage for local sporting groups, and on the first floor, a community cafe/catering facility, meetings rooms, ICT suite, community offices, community storage space and an office for Communities First Felinfoel.

(Community centre proposed site plan)

Carmarthenshire Connect attended the event to help Communities First with their consultations and to get some feedback on the new development from residents through interviews taken on the projects Busbie video cameras:

(Mark - Rural Community Council)

(John - Local Resident)

(Phill - Communities First Felinfoel)

As part of the consultation, local residents were asked to put all their views, thoughts and feelings about the development onto two central boards with sticky notes. One board asked residents for their general thoughts and concerns regarding the project and the second asked what sort of activities or projects residents wanted to see in the new facility.

A wide range of ideas and concerns were raised including, security, parking, evening access, ICT systems, recycling and waste management, and the use of green energy such as solar panels. A number of activities were also suggested by the community, including fitness and sports classes, cooking classes, IT classes and youth projects.

Overall the evening was a great success with a lot of support show for the development. Project developers hope to begin construction in the next couple of months and have it completed later in the year.

If you did not get a chance to voice your support or concerns at the meeting you can use our comments feature below to add your views to this post, Carmarthenshire Connect will then pass those onto Communities First and the Rural Community Council. Please click on the comments link at the bottom of the post.