THE manager of a popular Lampeter children’s nursery destroyed in a serious fire has accused inspectors of “killing her business” by blocking her plans to move to alternative premises.

The nursery in Cellan, which caters for up to 60 children per day – with a total of 200 on its books – employs 15 members of staff and has built up a sterling reputation over the past decade.

The total cost of the damage is estimated to be between £700,000 and £1,000,000.

In a further blow, moves to temporarily house the nursery at Cellan Millennium Hall have been vetoed by the Care and Social Services Inspectorate in Wales who ruled it would take 14 weeks for the facility to be re-registered.

Dwynwen Davies, who has run Meithrinfa Y Dyfodol at the old village school in Cellan since January 2007, said: “I lost everything I had in one single night.”

And she added: “We were all set to reopen on the Monday but I was told that if I did so I would be deregistered.

“The fire destroyed the nursery, but it was the CSSIW who actually killed my business.”

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