THE former Ysgol Dyffryn Teifi building in Llandysul is likely to be sold off in chunks after the site failed to find a buyer.

Cabinet members were asked on Tuesday to approve a recommendation to split the site into three separate lots for sale after the school building, which closed its doors in 2016, failed to sell on the open market at an asking price of £495,000.

Ceredigion council wanted the money to go towards the development of the all-through 3-19 Ysgol Bro Teifi school, but talks with only one interested party when it was marketed broke down.

One local group, Plant y Dyffryn looked at buying the site in 2017, with the council allowing them time to develop a business plan and raise funding to purchase the site.

“Unfortunately,” a report set to be put before Cabinet members said, “the funding bid was unsuccessful and no further progress has been made.”

Proposals for the site have been monitored and discussed at the council’s Development Group, which heard in November that a further meeting with Plant y Dyffryn had revealed that “they were still interested in the site but did not have any funds to pay for it”.

The group also heard that there had been “commercial interest shown in parts, but not all, of the site” and agreed to look at options to sell off the land, which extends to around eight acres and holds seven buildings, in chunks.

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