Forthcoming Events

28 March 2010  Tool Handle Making Workshop

6 April 2010  Clwb Y Ddwylan, Newcastle Emlyn Easter holiday play scheme

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News

2 March 2010  Supermarket Action Group highlight terminological inexactitudes in applicants letter to Town Council

8 February 2010  Cawdor Supermarket – How you can help

4 February 2010  Newcastle Emlyn Playground Committee Saved!

25 January 2010  After school club in danger of closing

19 January 2010  Newcastle Emlyn Thought Experiment

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Letters

Letter : Carmarthen – a lesson for Newcastle Emlyn?

Letter : A superstore would be a carbunkle

Letter : Open Letter to Cllr Haydn Jones

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Cawdor Suggestion Box

What suggestions do you have for how the the Cawdor site could be used if not for a supermarket? Fill in the form below and your suggestions will appear in this page within a few hours. If you want to add to the wider discussion on the Cawdor supermarket planning application, please use the comment facility on other pages. Be sure to fill in all the fields including the security code below, otherwise to form will not send.





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Your suggestions

  • I also like Diane Davies’ suggestions for a better swimming pool and a better place for buses and coaches to stop. Get the tourists into the town instead so they can see what a great town we have and a wonderful area to live in. Definitely need info centre, youth club,
    community music and arts centre. Has anyone noticed how many South Londoners there are in Emlyn? And our spiritual friends and creative friends – this is why we need to save Newcastle Emlyn as we have a great area for everyone.
  • Bowling alley! especially as not yet materialised in Cardigan.
  • Purpose built youth centre/community arts, information centre open seven days a week alternatively the old builders merchants in New Road could be renovated for same?
    7.1 Section 106 of the Town & Country Planning Act enables a planning obligation to be entered into by agreement between a developer and a local Planning Authority. Very often the provision of a playground on sites proposed for major development is such a planning obligation.
  • I like Diane Davies’ suggestions for a better swimming pool and a better place for buses and coaches to stop. Town Council have been asking Carmarthenshire County Council for double parking allocations for coaches in Mart car park for about 2 years. Another one of those requests that falls on deaf ears.
  • How about a place where young people can hang out in the evenings / weekends? What exactly? Well ask them…!

About Newcastle Emlyn

Supermarket Sweep

The “New” Castle Ruins – Larger version

Newcastle Emlyn and Adpar are two adjacent communities in the Teifi Valley West Wales sitting either side of the River Teifi. To the North is Adpar in the County of Ceredigion, to the South, Newcastle Emlyn in the County of Carmarthenshire.

Newcastle Emlyn Market Hall

Newcastle Emlyn Market Hall – Much larger version

Newcastle Emlyn and Adpar form a bustling market town community which grew up around a crossing point over the River Teifi, its swooping meanders made the site a natural defensive position first built on by the Normans. Today, although the castle is in ruins, the town is lively and attractive and its people welcoming.

Newcastle Emlyn Market Hall

Sycamore Street, Newcastle Emlyn – Much larger image

For many years in the 18th and 19th centuries Emlyn was an important part of the drovers’ network, a collecting point for the hogs and hardy Welsh Black cattle which ended up at the auctions and on the platters of the big English cities to the east: Bristol, Birmingham and London.