Carmarthenshire County Council has launched a formal consultation on proposals to re-locate Heol Goffa School in Llanelli and increase its capacity to 150 pupils.
Agreed at its Cabinet meeting on Monday 1 June 2026, the consultation follows the previous Cabinet decision to develop a new school to increase capacity and meet the current projected demand.
Parents, teachers, pupils, school governors and the wider school community have until Tuesday 21 July to have their say via an online survey or in writing to:
Mr Owain Lloyd,
Director of Education and Leisure,
County Hall,
Castle Hill,
Carmarthen,
SA31 1JP.
Alternatively, responses can be sent via e-mail.
Carmarthenshire County Council’s Cabinet Member for Education, Cllr Glynog Davies, said:
“The launch of this consultation is the next step towards Carmarthenshire County Council’s delivery of a new 150 pupil Heol Goffa school.
We are asking the school community to have their say on these proposals and help to shape the development of an increased education provision for pupils with severe learning difficulties (SLD) and profound learning difficulties (PMLD) in the Llanelli area.”
The Stradey Park Hotel would make a fantastic school.
Percy Roundtree The steep winding drive and the lack of outdoor recreation space wouldn’t suit the less mobile of the special needs pupils.
Percy Roundtree wouldn’t be suitable
I asked Chat GPT and it said
If I were a councillor with a limited budget, I would probably ask:
Why not buy Stradey Park, keep the existing Heol Goffa, and use the savings to improve specialist facilities over time?
From a pure value-for-money perspective, that would be a hard option to ignore.
From a special-education perspective, though, the purpose-built school remains the stronger long-term solution. The real policy question is whether the additional educational benefits of the new build justify spending perhaps £15–25 million more than a hotel conversion. Based on the figures currently in the public domain, that is a legitimate question rather than an obvious one-sided answer.