9. Short Debate: Protecting community spaces: Taking back control

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:41 pm on 9 March 2022.

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Photo of Samuel Kurtz Samuel Kurtz Conservative 6:41, 9 March 2022

I want to start by mentioning Penllwyn Park in my constituency in the town of Carmarthen, which is a park owned by Carmarthen Town Council, but, unfortunately, due to littering and glass, they've not been able to open the gates and allow people in there to use it, so those gates are locked, meaning only the football club on a Saturday morning have access to this community space, which I think is a real shame. And echoing Peredur's thoughts on the IWA 'Our Land: Communities and Land Use' report, this is absolutely right, and I'd extend it to the Deputy Minister with regards to tree planting in rural Wales, with the sale of farms and community land and the installation of trees, the afforestation, which causes real concern for a lot of rural Wales. But I will end, just by—. I'm sure it was a lapse of Rhys's memory, but it's not only Scotland that has a community policy, a right-to-bid policy, but also England too, those good old Tories across Offa's Dyke. Diolch.