THE latest community news from Machynlleth

Gardens’ trip

MACHYNLLETH Garden Club has organised a coach trip to Glansevern Hall Gardens and Cwm Weeg on Thursday, 27 June.

The trip is open to members at £25 per person and non-members at £27.50 per person.

All interested call Elise on 01654 702853.

Hear to Help

DO you wear NHS hearing aids? Come along to the Hear to Help group for new tubes, advice and free batteries. Just drop in between 10am and 12 noon at Y Plas (back room). First Friday of every month, run by local Action on Hearing Loss volunteers.

Pennal Tuesday Club

DESPITE an atrocious day, a reasonable number of members turned out for the meeting on Tuesday, 11 June.

Of particular interest were the two ‘away’ trips arranged for the summer. In August the group will be holding its annual afternoon tea in the village, while September sees the members venture further afield with a jolly on the Tal-y-Llyn railway.

With the D-Day celebrations fresh in mind, Tuesday’s guest speaker took the group even further back, to Gallipoli in 1915, with special reference to the ANZACS and their involvement in the debacle that was the Dardanelles campaign. Next month Hugh Ramsbotham will be the guest speaker.

Council meeting

MACHYNLLETH Town Council will be holding its next ordinary monthly meeting at Y Plas, on Monday, 24 June, at 6.30pm.

Formal notice of the meeting, including the evening’s business, will be affixed to the council’s notice boards in front of the town library and the Plas foyer.

Public and press are welcome to attend.

Planning

AT the meeting at Llandrindod Wells on 13 June, Powys Planning Committee received notice of applications that had been approved by officers under delegated powers, including from the Machynlleth Planning Area: discharge of condition 7 and 8 of planning approval P/2017/1167 in relation to biodiversity and hedgerows, 6 Pencaemawr, Penegoes; widening and improvements to track, Pennant, Llanbrynmair; reduction of three pine trees and fell one pine tree within a conservation area, Station House, Railway Station, Machynlleth; consent section 106, erection of 29 dwellings, formation of vehicular access and roads, pedestrian and cycle pathways, together with amenity space and playground area and associated works, land adjacent to Tan-y-Bryn, Aberystwyth Road, Machynlleth.

Bowls

UNBEATEN after their first three fixtures in the Montgomeryshire County Men’s league Division One, leaders Berriew and visitors Machynlleth played out a narrow five-shot victory for the home side on 6 June. They pocketed six and a half points to the visitors’ half point.

Seven Machynlleth players were selected for Montgomeryshire CBA’s visit to Dinas Powys BC to play Vale of Glamorgan, which resulted in a comprehensive win for the Vale by 148 shots to 70, in the opening round of this season’s Welsh County Championship. Flying the Llynlloedd flag were: Andrew Fleming, Justin Hinge, Alex Jarman, Eryl Jones, Bobby Richards, David Rowlands and Mark Rowlands.

For the Welsh Veterans’ County Championship, at Llanidloes BC on 18 June, four Machynlleth bowlers were selected for the fixture against Vale of Glamorgan. Namely: Alwyn Jones, Kevin Jones, Brendan Rogers and David Rowlands.

Day trip

DAY trip once a month from Machynlleth.

Experience forest gardening at one of the earliest, best and most developed forest gardens in the UK.

Free day trip out every second Sunday in the month from Mach’ to the Bangor Forest Garden at Abergwyngregyn, near Bangor.

This isn’t at Machynlleth but available from Machynlleth, for any keen forest gardener in the area!

Catch the Lloyds T2 bus 6am at the Depot. Traws Cwmru T buses are free every weekend. Apparently, you only pay for the no 5 bus to Abergwyngregyn and back from Bangor.

Social days and workdays are held every second Sunday in the month, and the last Wednesday of every month. Travel details; 6am T2 bus for free to Bangor then the no 5 from Bangor and get there for the day at 9.10am and catch the no 5 back at 5pm and get the free T2 bus back to Mach for 8.30pm (you only pay for the no 5 bus there and back to Bangor). The garden is inspiring.

Directions can be found on the Bangor forest gardens page: https://www.facebook.com/pg/Bangorforestgarden

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