The oldest building in Trethomas is set to be demolished to make way for a care home.
Councillors recently approved plans to build a 32-bed care home on the site of the Ty’n-y-Pwll pub, on Newport Road.
At a meeting of Caerphilly County Borough Council’s planning committee, held on Wednesday, November 9, councillors approved an application from Pontcanna Development Ltd to build on the site.
According to a report considered by members of the committee, the planned care home will be a large three-storey building with a “modern largely pitch-roofed structure”.
It read: “The accommodation would comprise a range of service rooms, a reception, lounge areas and eight en-suite, self-contained bedrooms on the ground floor, a further 15 bedrooms on the first floor with waiting rooms and lounge areas, and nine bedrooms on the second floor with waiting rooms and lounge areas.”
A previous plan to turn the building into a community centre collapsed after the charity behind the scheme could not secure funding.
The Ty’n-Y-Pwll, known locally as the ‘Pyke’, used to be the toll house where tolls were charged for the use of the road between Caerphilly and Newport.
• The former pub was the target of arsonists on Wednesday, November 16.
Two fire crews from Caerphilly attended the deliberate fire at around 5.40pm, and tackled the fire on the ground and first floors.
The £3million that has been squandered by Caerphilly Council on the Messrs Barnett, Perkins and O’Sullivan could have turned The Ty’n-Y-Pwll into a youth centre, homeless shelter or something that would have benefited the local community, now the oldest building in Trethomas is to be raised to the ground to make way for a private carehome, Caerphilly Council should be very proud of themselves that they have allowed this to happen.