PARENTS of pupils at the newly-built Craig y Deryn School in Llanegryn have described the building as “a hazard for children”.

Complaints flooded in to the Cambrian News this week following a parents’ evening at the school, which cost over £5m to build.

Alarmed parents found the award-winning building, which opened in September 2013, to be full of mould, mildew and leaks.

Lorraine Rogers, chair of the school’s Parent Teacher Association, has two children at the school and said she was disgusted by the state of it.

“I knew there were problems but the building was in unbelievably poor condition,” she said.

“There were buckets collecting water in all the classrooms, in the corridor, everywhere. There was white mould and mildew throughout the building, it’s a health hazard — who knows what the kids are breathing?

“My little girls are in years four and six and there are leaks in both their classrooms.”

Local councillor Louise Hughes was equally appalled.

“It’s an absolute scandal, there are big patches of white mould on the classroom carpets,” she said.

“That means there are spores and mildew and all sorts of awful things that the children are forced to breath in.

“Two children have been taking to hospital because of asthma attacks, the poor conditions can’t help.”

A Gwynedd Council spokesperson said: “As defects have manifested themselves in two places on the roof, the council has arranged for the main contractor to carry out the necessary repairs and they are currently on-site.

“All work will be carried out at no cost to the council.”

See the full story in this week’s Meirionnydd edition of the Cambrian News.