Everything to do with Conwy

[DaveR]

...and the same view today:

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[Fester]

Just look at that picture,
I've always thought it looked rubbish and incongruous on such a beautiful site.
How could the planning dept allow this?    A private person would have been stopped before laying a single brick

[Bellringer]

Sad to hear of the death of Mrs Pamela Davies formerly of Ty Mawr Nurseries, Gyffin.

Funeral details - see "Obits"

[Bellringer]

National Tree Week Event at Bodlondeb -  Saturday 27 November 2010 - 10.30am  to 2.30pm. Free entry

For further details see "What's On".

[Bellringer]

The work has finished on the bridge and so the lights have gone. Back to normal until the next time.....!!

[JasonW]

The work has finished on the bridge and so the lights have gone. Back to normal until the next time.....!!

We have had 3 faults in the sewage pipe across the bridge since August. Welsh Water, after much persuading, agreed to replace the whole length of pipe. This is why the works were extended.
CCBC Street Engineer has requested that they replace the patchwork tarmac with a new surface, which will take place early next year. Hopefully these works will prevent more faults.

Welsh Water are also working in the Car Park in Deganwy, some serious works ongoing following a leak spotted earlier in the week.

[Bellringer]

Thanks for that information Jason and good luck with your stated future endeavours.

[Blongb]

In 1968 Fester you only had to look at Mostyn Street opposite M and S to see what the Planners would allow. Fortunately Mothercare and Boots were pulled down to make way for the Victoria Centre which at least is trying to blend in. Garth Court on Llewelyn Ave is another example of a bad planning decision during that era. It used to be the site of the Grand Hotels car park. With it gone they just clog up North Parade and Happy Valley Road.
To get back on thread, the unforgivable thing about the Conwy fire was the loss of all Llandudno's public records, moved there by the County Council for "SAFE KEEPING", which up to that time must have been the most full and comprehensive of any town in Wales. “Never put all your eggs in one basket.”

[Fester]

How ironic is that?

But to go OFF thread again just for the moment, I agree that the building of Garth Court was an utter disgrace.
In fact, it actually belongs in the topic EYESORES,  such is the blight on the towns landscape.

You can't tell me that money didn't change hands in brown envelopes to ge that through the planning stages.   

[Pendragon]

More recently look at the flats they built as you come through the arch into berry street. Unbelievable, they really are horrid aren't they  another brown envelope me thinks Fester

[DaveR]

You have to remember, that in the case of Garth Court and the Mostyn Street shops, that Planning Laws were nowhere near as tight as they are now. There was no Conservation Area, for example, and very few buildings in Llandudno were Listed until 1976, hence you could knock down anything you wanted and stick some square concrete building up instead.

In addition, in those days, anything deemed 'modern' was always welcomed, and the Victorian buildings were thought of as being past it and fit only for demolition. No brown envelopes were needed, believe me.

This site lists all the Listed Buildings in Llandudno:
http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wales/conwy/llandudno

Colwyn Bay:
http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wales/conwy/colwyn+bay

Conwy:
http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wales/conwy/conwy

[DaveR]

More recently look at the flats they built as you come through the arch into berry street. Unbelievable, they really are horrid aren't they  another brown envelope me thinks Fester

They are a disappointment when looking from Berry Street but the backs of them match other buildings quite well if you look from the end of the Town Wall by the Quay. Why they couldn't have built the fronts in the same style as the other houses on Berry Street, I don't know.

[Ian]

Yes - thanks for keeping us in the loop, Jason.

[Blongb]

This site lists all the Listed Buildings in Llandudno:
http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wales/conwy/llandudno

Thank-you for the link Dave. I have just spent a couple of very interesting hours on the Listed buildings site updating the information on my place. Perhaps we’ll get more customers next year now I've relocated their Map Marker from the disused Loo's on Happy Valley Road to our place. )*)&

[Bellringer]

keeping us in the loop

I've an idea what you mean Ian but for those of us who have a jargon deficiency, perhaps you will be kind enough to explain.

Stan