Proposal To Exchange Cae Du For Cae Ysgubor At Bedgellert

There are now two sub committees which have been formed. Nigel Lyle is the chair of the Development & Richard Toon is the chair of the fund raising committee.

You can contact Nigel at : walesdevelopmentlancsmc.org and Richard Toon at : fundraisinglancsmc.org

Work started on the site in March 2010 - the site has been cleared and the foundations are going to be laid in the coming months.

At the EGM on the 18/11/2006 it was decided that the club would proceed with the proposal to exchange Cae Du for Cae Ysgubor at Bedgellert. More information will be placed on the website when it becomes available.

Hut News

Progress at Cae Ysgubor - May 2010

Nigel, Cathy and I have had a very successful couple of days working on the Cae Ysgubor site. We hired a digger/breaker [with driver] and a dumper from John Roberts & Co of Ffestiniog, and Nigel borrowed a laser level from his neighbour.

Work done:

• ALL the old foundations have been removed and trenches have been dug for the new foundations on three sides. The fourth side is left in place to allow access by the pile equipment, but will be [relatively] easy to dig out as it’s on the peaty end of the site.
• The locations for the piles have been marked and the depth of the trenches has been levelled for the positioning of the beams between piles.
• The site area has been levelled ready for the floor to be laid on the beams.
• The old foundation rubble [masses of it!] has been used to bring the car park area [across the road] up to road level, and smoothed enough to allow cars to be parked now, though a surface will be required to finish the work. There is probably space for five cars now, and there will be more when we move the pile of 'facing stones' from the old walls of the barn/cottage. Plus the spaces on the 'hut side' of the road, of course.
• Thanks to Cathy, the vegetation from the area on the other side of the 'car park' stream has been cleared. When we dig the hole for the bio-digestor, the material can be used for levelling this area which could make a small camp site.
• The site has been 'secured' to stop passers from falling into the foundation trench alongside the road.

Overall we were very impressed with the skill and hard work of the John Roberts’ driver [Gwynne] and would recommend using the firm [and asking for Gwynne] for any future digging/clearing work. The final result certainly exceeded my expectations and, thanks to Nigel’s professional surveying and direction, the site is now ready for the pile and beam installation. It now looks like a 'proper site' on which progress is being made.

David [Qualified and experienced Dumper Driver]

20th - 21st March 2010 - Working Weekend - Cae Ysgubor

Work started on the site over the weekend of 20th - 21st March.

The existing structure was knocked down, and old foundations have started to be removed from the site. These where not adequate for the proposed building. The weekend also saw several drainage ditches created, cleared and improved upon. Other general clean up of the site was undertaken.

A big thank you to everyone that attended and gave a helping hand.

Welsh Hut Update - Container on site

We now have a container on site at the Welsh hut. Rumours are that all the Committee are to be locked inside until the new hut is built!!!

Thanks to Mark Braithwaite for arranging the loan of the container.

Now work can commence!!

Contract Exchange Complete

The contracts have been exchanged. Please do not try to gain access to the old hut or try to stay there, it is no longer our property.

PICTURES OF THE NEW SITE

PLANS FOR THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT OF A MOUNTAIN HUT

SITE DETAIL PLAN

LOCATION PLAN

Any further news - plans may be subject to further amendment as the detailed design develops.

Google map of location - for best viewing change to Satellite view and zoom in.