£150,000 re-vamp for Mochdre youth club

Dec 11 2008 by Richard Evans, North Wales Weekly News

MOCHDRE is to benefit from a brand new youth club thanks to nearly £150,000 of investment.

Following three separate pots of funding being made available to Conwy County Council, the village hall is getting a complete makeover and there are plans for the police to set up shop at the venue.

Once a 16-week building programme has been completed, it is hoped the hall on Old Conway Road will help revitalise the village by providing a safe venue for youngsters.

Already being planned is a new youth club and it is hoped other organisations such as cubs and scouts could take up residence at the hall.

Mochdre councillor Adrian Tansley revealed he is also in talks with North Wales Police to rent an area of the hall as a permanent base for the force in the village. Cllr Tansley hopes by supplying the village’s young people with a club it will help curtail anti-social behaviour.

“We are having whole new walls, two disabled toilets, a disabled lift and an open plan kitchen,” he said.

“We are having automatic doors and new ceilings too, the whole place is being refurbished. It will look the business when it is finished, then we can start the youth club.

“People say kids are hanging around the streets but there’s nowhere for them to go,” said Cllr Tansley.

“If we can get kids to do something it will help Mochdre. I find if you show them respect, they will show it to you.”

The village hall is set for a complete revamp following a £100,000 youth initiative grant from the Assembly, £37,000 from WREN at the Llanddulas landfill site and a £10,000 donation from the nearby SiteQuest industrial site.