Experts called in over outdoor centre renovations.

A city council has enlisted the expertise of building professionals to ensure that renovations and improvements to an outdoor education centre can be completed.

Plas Dol-y-Moch, in Eryri National Park, better known as Snowdonia, was a “huge asset” for Coventry but had encountered “significant issues” during its creation, according to the local authorities.

A council report described some of the building’s upgrades, such as the addition of en suite staff accommodations and the improvement of student living areas.

Faye Parklen from the local government stated that recent chimney construction encouraged them to collaborate with a building consultancy that works directly with the national park.

The council purchased the centre in the 1960s, and it now serves as an outdoor centre for city kids. It is due to celebrate its 60th anniversary, and many Coventry citizens have lived there over the years.

Ms Parklen, the council’s head of education entitlement and enrichment services, told councillors during a scrutiny meeting that the centre’s location in the national park, as well as its Grade II listed building status, had caused issues.

“We have faced significant issues around the development as you can imagine, we have had significant barriers around one area,” she told the crowd.

“The flood-plain maps that are produced restrict where any development can take place and has limited us significantly and has also impacted on any refurbishment of the building.” Ms Parklen stated that the chimney work on the main building had been completed.

“Plas Dol-y-Moch is amazing and a huge asset for Coventry and we need to protect that with more and more centres shutting, which is a tragedy in my view,” she told the BBC. Councillor Robert Thay had previously stayed at the facility and regarded it as a “rite of passage”.

“It brings a lot to the kids and if we ever lost it it would would be devastating because I personally know people who have been to Ibiza more times than they have seen a mountain,” he told me.

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