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BRONLLYS: THE NEXT TEN YEARS (2020-2030)
This would be based on a nationally and regionally important centre for health;
a nucleus comprising the Bronllys Hospital site, Bronllys and Talgarth.”
 “...wellbeing activities within its vicinity... would create a powerful long stay visitor magnet... [and]... a rich range of health facilities, daily needs, a
refreshed local sense of place, new jobs and a boost to the local economy.”
The report also recommended that the Bronllys Community Hospital site be transferred to a Community Land Trust (CLT).
 “The Prince’s Foundation propose that the site be given over to a Community Land Trust that would be able to retain and maintain the core elements of the site upon which the ethos of wellbeing were originally built.”
However, early in 2012, following the publication of the document “Vision for Health Care in South East Powys” by the PTHB, concerns were raised that the Bronllys Community Hospital site was to be asset stripped and partially given over to property developers.
On 4 December 2012, with support from the Hospital League of Friends, a 3,122 signature petition was presented to WG, calling for the PTHB to devise a “...strategy to build or rebuild, improve and/or extend this NHS Hospital’s facilities and services and resource expertise; and to retain and rebuild this valuable community asset as a centre of excellence.”4
WG asked PTHB to address these concerns and in December 2013 PTHB carried out a major consultation on what the community wished to see at Bronllys Community Hospital.
4.2.2 The Launch of BWBP & Progress to Date
Following the PTHB consultation, local people got together to form the Powys Health & Well Being Action Group (PHWBAG), to work jointly on developing community proposals for Bronllys Community Hospital and its grounds. These proposals addressed the concerns raised in the 2012 petition and gained the support of the wider community. The proposals called for an inspirational Park which is owned by the local community and which complements and enhances Bronllys Community Hospital through the sustainable development of housing, transport, work, leisure, health and well-being facilities.
In August 2014 a group of volunteers produced the first report: “A Vision for Bronllys”, in which it stated: “Bronllys Well Being Park is envisioned as a Garden Village which will care for the rural community of Mid-Wales and become a Flagship Well Being
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https://www.bronllyswellbeingpark.org/BWBP%20Wording%20of%20the%203122%20signature%20Petition% 20re_Bronllys_Hospital%20presented%20toWelsh%20Government%20041212.pdf
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