Gwynedd Council has served to owner of a dilapidated building on Bangor High Street with an improvement notice.
The owner of the property at 298 High Street, the former Barnardo’s charity shop, must make the improvements within four months or the Council will then conduct the works at their cost, place a charge upon the building and enforce a sale.
The notice, served under the section 79 (1) of the 1984 buildings act for ‘ruinous and dilapidated buildings and neglected sites’ requires the owner the make the improvements, if it appears to a local authority that a building or structure is by reason of its ruinous or dilapidated condition seriously detrimental to the amenities of the neighbourhood.
The building, which has been vacant for a number of years, requires repairs to the roof, guttering, new windows and repairs to the rendering. The owner must also remove any graffiti and repaint the exterior of the building and remove any weeds.
The enforcement order will come as good news to that particular area of the High Street, not only because of the number of vacant buildings, but also because of their dilapidated state.
The council are also believed to be assessing a number of other buildings in the area.
