{"id":2287,"date":"2014-02-27T00:19:18","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T00:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/?p=2287"},"modified":"2014-02-27T00:19:18","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T00:19:18","slug":"grangetown-councillors-snub-play-centre-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2014\/02\/27\/grangetown-councillors-snub-play-centre-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Grangetown Councillors snub play centre meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grangetown Councillors shunned a meeting on play centre referendum yesterday following plans to appoint Plaid Cymru official as chair of community vote.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2288\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2288\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140226_180814.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2288\" alt=\"Dafydd Trystan\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140226_180814-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2288\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2288\" alt=\"Dafydd Trystan\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140226_180814-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Plaid Cymru Chair Dafydd Trystan<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nCouncillors Ashley Govier and Lynda Thorne, who held a private meeting with a few Grangetown play centre employees ahead of the poll meeting, released a statement explaining their move.<br \/>\nIn the statement they said: \u201cWe have taken the view not to attend tonight\u2019s meeting as we do not wish to become embroiled in party political arguments and would rather focus our energies on working with residents and exploring ways of protecting these services into the future.<br \/>\n\u201cIt is our intention to release the plans we are working on to sustain these facilities over the next few months\u00a0 and we are more than happy to engage with concerned parents on these matters at a later date,\u00a0 but we will not be drawn into political battles that certainly do not service the best interests of the community we have been elected to represent.\u201d<br \/>\nTheir decision not to attend came after they were informed that Plaid Cymru chair Dafydd Trystan was elected to chair the meeting.<br \/>\nMr Trystan, who is a Grangetown resident, responded to the Labour councillors. He said: \u201cIf they\u2019d been here, they\u2019d have heard me, from the chair, saying that we weren\u2019t going to talk about personalities at all. We were going to talk about the proposal and I can\u2019t remember if any single person made a party political point. I don\u2019t think they did. So it is a big shame that our councillors weren\u2019t here to hear the strength of local opinion.\u201d<br \/>\n<iframe class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load\" width=\"100%\" height=\"150\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"about:blank\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/136991103&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;visual=true\"><\/iframe><noscript><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"150\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/136991103&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/noscript><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1326\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1326\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Grangetown2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1326\" alt=\"Grangetown Play Centre\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Grangetown2-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1326\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1326\" alt=\"Grangetown Play Centre\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Grangetown2-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Grangetown Play Centre<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nRob Gee- Wing, a parents of one of the play centre children, said: \u201cMarie Rosenthal (County Clerk and Monitoring Officer) was in attendance and I\u2019m completely sure that regardless of Dafydd Trystan, a Grangetown resident and qualified chair, she would be happy to confirm that Plaid Cymru were not mentioned on any occasion.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe meeting opened with the organisers\u2019 announcement that they would reserve the right to call for a referendum in the future if the Council refuses to keep the centre open until the end of their term in 2017.<br \/>\nThey urged everyone at the meeting to join the Friends of Grangetown Play Centre Group to show their support<br \/>\nBut the organisers were left with a bitter-sweet taste. The number of registered locals who attended the meeting only reached 103 by the end of the evening but 125 of those present signed up to the newly formed Friends of Grangetown Play Centre Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grangetown Councillors shunned a meeting on play centre referendum yesterday following plans to appoint Plaid Cymru official as chair of community vote. Councillors Ashley Govier and Lynda Thorne, who held a private meeting with a few Grangetown play centre employees ahead of the poll meeting, released a statement explaining their move. 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