Madam,

The Cambrian News ran a story about a former Aberdyfi school site being sold for “just over half of its market value” to social housing group Cartrefi Cymunedol Gwynedd.

I readily admit I am not a resident of Aberdyfi, but on reading those words I would wonder why is this property, in such a position, not going for its full market value and who this favoured social housing group is chaired by?

Also, if this figure is fully acceptable, who are the losers going to be with this deal? I could ponder, too, is this school site being offered at this special figure to all bidders, or is that not the case?

We read, continually of affordable housing, but I wonder where it is and to whom is it affordable? I am thinking of the many widows amongst us, youngsters who are desperate to get on the property ladder, service men/women who have come to the end of their service and those who were self-employed but, sadly, are no more.

Reading on, it says that “11 affordable houses on the site would be let on social rent” should the deal with the social housing group proceed.

I am probably remarkably dim, but I fail to see where any money would be raised and would the social rent collected be sufficient to cover the council charges which are levied in Aberdyfi?

I am fully prepared to take the flak my letter may engender, but the paper is for all to read; Aberdyfi is a neighbour, the salient facts are valid, and we are all in Gwynedd.

Moving on, in an article on the future of youth clubs, the very last paragraph mentions that sanitary products should be paid for by taxpayers, if I have read the paragraph correctly.

After the war there was no such thing as bounty and there was one level for all – and that was poor! We bought our own sanitary items and choices then were few and far between. We didn’t grizzle and expect such necessities to come from any other pockets but our own and there was more modesty and decorum around then, too.

What, if I may query, are the young women doing with their own substance? Surely leisure, pleasure and cosmetic requisites are not coming before essentials?

As for the comparison with toilet paper by Catrin Wager, where does this woman live? Is she not aware that Tywyn alone has lost four public conveniences, let alone other losses across Gwynedd.

Take a fresh inventory on essentials, please.

Yours etc,

Jill Baxter, Abergynolwyn.

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