A Public Meeting will be held in Aberdare on Thursday 9th October 2008, at the Sobells Sports Centre.
At the Meeting Rhondda Cynon Taf Councillors will decide on the new Gloucesters & Ironworks site planning application.
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A Planning Application has been re-submitted to the local Council. The plans are for 130 houses to be built on the Hirwaun Gloucesters and old Ironworks site. This area is much valued and used by the community as an area for recreation and leisure and home to an abundance of wildlife and flora.
Councillors voted to refuse planning permission in July 2008.
Local Council Planning Officers are trying to persuade Councillors to change their minds and approve this application, despite overwhelming objections from residents over the last 3 years.
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You are invited to a Public Meeting to show Hirwaun residents want a say in the future of Hirwaun Village.
The Meeting is at 5pm on Thursday 9th October 2008 at Sobells Sports Centre, Aberdare.
Where R.C.T. Councillors will be deciding on the Gloucesters/Ironworks site planning application which will have a huge effect on the life of [...]...
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205 years ago Hirwaun Iron Works was bought by a new partnership of entrepreneurs. One of the partners was Francis William Bowzer
Stuart Wilson, the great great great grandson of that man, wrote to Hirwaun Online this week and contributed an excerpt from a biography he has prepared on his famous ‘great great great grandfather’.
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According to Carolyn Jacob writing for the Old Merthyr Tydfil website : “The Dowlais Parish Church was built in 1827 by the most successful iron-master of his generation, John Josiah Guest, who is buried inside the Church. In an iron coffin.The Church was well known for its unusual historic stained glass window, dedicated to the coal-mining industry, ‘The Miners Window’, which was funded by the Martin family. Inside the Church there are a large number of memorials, many to great figures of the Industrial Revolution, who were employed by the prestigious Dowlais Iron-Works. In recent years the Church became far too large for a diminishing elderly congregation and a problem with insurance cover led to its closure in 1997 and it was then sold to Nazir Mohammed. The original parish...
Many people in Hirwaun are aware of the proposed housing development near the Hirwaun Ironworks site. A few photographs were taken in this area during October 2006. The Autumn weather was then very wet and it was slippery underfoot. Spare a thought for the poor old photographer who nearly fell into the River Cynon… such was the dedication to the cause. If you have any photographs of Hirwaun you would like to submit, please email them to news@hirwaun.net.
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