1st Council House Issue

1st COUNCIL HOUSE ISSUE

TELL THEM FIRE STATION IS IN TOWN OF AMMANFORD 1st October 1959
Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire Joint Fire Brigade Committee intend appointing next March, a station officer for the area extending from Ammanford to Llandovery. It is desirable that the officer lives in or near Ammanford, and the committee has asked Llandeilo R.D.C. if it could allocate a house to the officer when he is appointed. The answer is – Llandeilo R.D.C. have not a vacant house on an estate near Ammanford at present. Mr. D. R. Davies, Betws, feared that if they merely told the committee they had not a vacant house on an estate near Ammanford at present, the impression would be created that if a house became vacant it would be let to the station officer. Mr. Davies said he would not consider this officer even if a house became vacant in his area between now and the end of March. “I have a fairly substantial list of people waiting for houses,” said Mr. Davies. GROWING LIST The chairman, Mr. W. H. Morris, said he did not think the decision recommended by their committee tied them down in anyway. Mr. D. D. Thomas said the council could not ignore appeals of this nature form the Fire Brigade Committee, but the most the council could do was to consider the appeal in the light of the needs of the people of the area. “There is a growing list in Betws, Llandybie and other places, but at the same time we cannot say we are not prepared to consider this application,” he said. Mr. D. R. Davies's answer to this was that they should tell the Fire Brigade Committee that the fire station was in the town of Ammanford and that there were council houses in Ammanford. FLAT “NO' “We should not entertain these people. It is going to be a flat “No” so far as I am concerned,' he said. Mr. Percy Jones, Penybanc, said they were not in a position to promise houses to anybody. “They built tow houses in Ammanford for Fire Brigade personnel. Why do they not go about this in the same fashion?” he said. Four members voted for telling the Fire Brigade Committee that the council could not entertain its request for a house. The majority of the members raised their hands for telling the committee that the council had not a vacant house on an estate near Ammanford at present.

TELL THEM FIRE STATION IS IN TOWN OF AMMANFORD

1st October 1959

Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire Joint Fire Brigade Committee intend appointing next March, a station officer for the area extending from Ammanford to Llandovery.

It is desirable that the officer lives in or near Ammanford, and the committee has asked Llandeilo R.D.C. if it could allocate a house to the officer when he is appointed.

The answer is – Llandeilo R.D.C. have not a vacant house on an estate near Ammanford at present.

Mr. D. R. Davies, Betws, feared that if they merely told the committee they had not a vacant house on an estate near Ammanford at present, the impression would be created that if a house became vacant it would be let to the station officer.

Mr. Davies said he would not consider this officer even if a house became vacant in his area between now and the end of March.

“I have a fairly substantial list of people waiting for houses,” said Mr. Davies.

GROWING LIST

The chairman, Mr. W. H. Morris, said he did not think the decision recommended by their committee tied them down in anyway.

Mr. D. D. Thomas said the council could not ignore appeals of this nature form the Fire Brigade Committee, but the most the council could do was to consider the appeal in the light of the needs of the people of the area.

“There is a growing list in Betws, Llandybie and other places, but at the same time we cannot say we are not prepared to consider this application,” he said.

Mr. D. R. Davies's answer to this was that they should tell the Fire Brigade Committee that the fire station was in the town of Ammanford and that there were council houses in Ammanford.

FLAT “NO'

“We should not entertain these people. It is going to be a flat “No” so far as I am concerned,' he said.

Mr. Percy Jones, Penybanc, said they were not in a position to promise houses to anybody. “They built tow houses in Ammanford for Fire Brigade personnel.

Why do they not go about this in the same fashion?” he said.

Four members voted for telling the Fire Brigade Committee that the council could not entertain its request for a house.

The majority of the members raised their hands for telling the committee that the council had not a vacant house on an estate near Ammanford at present.