P-04-440  Say NO to Asset Stripping Bronllys Hospital - Petitioner to the Clerking Team, 04.12.14.

Dear Kayleigh,

Please can you forward our thanks to the Petitions Committee for following up on our Bronllys Park Proposals. If those go forward they will offer a complimentary circle of support to The Community Hospital. They also include mechanisms to generate continuing funding for social care in these cash strapped times. And it appears that the proposals we put together have 'legs'!

However please note. Our Proposals are not "the robust plan for Bronllys Hospital" which the PtHB promised to deliver before moving the Stroke Unit to Brecon. Our Proposals are for an integrated use of the existing grounds, and not the hospital. For our Proposals to work, we do need the Hospital, and it's facilities to become the centre for local health care. Our proposals for the Parkland are intended to support a re-vitalised hospital, consequently we do need to have the Stroke Unit returned AND we need the PtHB to deliver the plan they promised for the hospital's future development. Where are these plans?

Furthermore, the PtHB have still not met the second caveat promised to the CHC: to resolve the parking issues at Brecon Hospital. The parking problem has predictably, if anything, got worse, and it will continue to do so!

We cannot understand the purpose of all the various bodies agreeing that the Stroke Unit would ONLY be moved subject to the PtHB resolving the parking objection AND subject to their coming up with a 'ROBUST PLAN FOR THE HOSPITAL', and their not being made accountable when they fail to deliver on this public commitment. 

Did the PtHB ever have any intention of fulfilling these commitments? Or was this just a cynical ploy on their part to get their plans through whatever, and to make fools of both our politicians and the general public? Their behaviour is a flagrant kick in the face for the democratic process - which behaviour the PtHB's constituents simply don't understand - and it is another nail in the coffin for Government purporting to engage the community in community issues. Surely someone must be able to force the PtHB to become accountable? Or what's the point?

Many thanks,

Michael Eccles