Who owns the former Narberth Primary School?

That was the question posed by former Mayor of Narberth, Clr. David Norcross, at the town council's first meeting after the summer recess on Tuesday evening.

Clr. Norcross expressed concern as to whether Pembrokeshire County Council had the right to sell the former site.

Clr. Norcoss said after the meeting: "I quoted the 1841 Education Site Act which stated that any land offered for the sole purpose of education, when it was no longer required, was to be given back to the Victorian benefactor or their heirs.

"At that time, under the new Education Act, the government desperately needed land to build new schools on and so offered that it would be returned when no longer used for its intended charitable purposes, as in the primary school's case, educational purposes."

Clr Norcross also quoted from the School Board minutes dated August 2, 1871. "Census taken. Schoolroom for 200 children to be built, site to be part of the waste land on the Town's Moor. The Baron de Rutzen as lord of the manor, having intimated his willingness to convey the same over to the School Board."

Narberth Town Council agreed to forward the information and the legal source supplied by Clr. Norcross to the county council to get an answer to his question.