A community group in rural Pembrokeshire is buying a local woodland - and then they plan to build a brand new school - thanks to a £154,000 grant from Cydcoed - Woods for All. The Nant-y-Cwm Community Group at Maenclochog, north of Narberth, has already bought the 10-acre Allt Llyn Dyfrion woodland - and work has started on turning it into a valuable community resource. The group is a fully constituted company limited by guarantee, formed by parents at Nant-Y-Cwm Steiner School which neighbours the woodland. Once completed - using local workers and timber - the new community wood will be open to all. Central to the project is the construction of an outdoor classroom - a large, turf-roofed roundhouse built using timber from the site. Another roundhouse will also be built as a reception area and to house interpretation panels explaining the wood. Some of the tracks throughout the wood will be re-made using stone quarried from the car park area - providing hard surfaces for wheelchairs and extending the car park itself. Selected trees will be felled to make way for the works, and used on site for construction, whilst wood chips will be used for more than a mile of path building. A timber archway will be erected at the beginning of the initial 200m of newly laid track into the woodland, constructed to enable wheelchair access to workshop areas, the charcoal production area and woodland nursery which are also part of the project. Two compost toilets will be built using timber from the site and picnic areas with tables and benches in various locations around the site. Pembrokeshire College has also given their support and wish to use the woodlands resources for there environmental and conservational course students to gain experience in working in a woodland environment.


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