CONCERNED residents and councillors have questioned the placement of a proposed drug and alcohol centre next to a special needs school in Llandudno. Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board has applied to Conwy County Council’s planning department, seeking permission for a drug and alcohol centre at Roslin on Nant y Gamar Road, Craig y Don. The health board wishes to convert the building, which was previously used for midwifery services, into a substance misuse clinic with counselling rooms on the building’s ground floor.
Betsi want the associated office accommodation to be on the basement, first, and second floors. But some residents are concerned that Roslin is in a residential area and only a stone’s throw away from Ysgol Gogarth. Resident Geoffrey Stone commented: “The property concerned has been, until they moved, a centre for midwives and is situated across the road from the pedestrian entrance of Ysgol y Gogarth, a school for special needs children.
He added: “We cannot understand who in their right minds would wish to locate a drug users’ clinic opposite and next door to a school for special needs children.” Craig y Don councillor Frank Bradfield said he was fully supportive of drugs and alcohol services but questioned the placement of the project. Cllr Bradfield said: “The building has got to be used for something.
It has been lying empty for ages. Whether or not it should be used for that project is debatable. “I think the public should reply as par.