Health Centre Plans Approved

The Council Planning Meeting on 15th June approved the plans for a new Radyr Health Centre on the Rectory Gardens site, behind Christ Church on Heol Isaf. This is excellent news as the existing Health Centre in Park Road is grossly overstretched. The new Centre will have five consulting rooms on the ground floor, together with two trainer consulting rooms, two nurse treatment rooms and a phlebotomy room. Upstairs there will be offices, a meeting room, minor operations room, nurse treatment room and four other rooms for use by chiropodist, counsellor/dietician and physiotherapist.

Thanks are due to Councillor Marion Drake for all the lobbying that has been necessary to ensure the success of this application, which will also delight the 785 people who signed the R&M Association petition in support. It will, of course, be some time before the new facility is built and ready for use.

Consideration of a further application, for a new Rectory, also on the Rectory Gardens site, was deferred until the next Planning Meeting, on 20th July. This is primarily to allow time for the Councillors to make a site visit. There are certain contractual links between the two applications which may or may not prove of relevance later. However it does look as if the future of Healthcare in our community is assured.