A  £70,000 loan to refurbish toilets in Hay-on-Wye could be written off by the Powys County Council (PCC) cabinet.

On Tuesday (December 18), the cabinet will look at a series of asset transfers that have been discussed between PCC and Hay-on-Wye Town Council (HTC).

The issues centre on: transferring the freehold ownership:

Public toilets on Oxford Road and the Clock Tower.

Recreation Ground and Sports Pavilion.

Council building

Toilets

In September 2015, PCC provided the £70,000  interest free loan to allow HTC to refurbish the toilet.

The first £10,000 was to be paid on September 2016.

The loan is unpaid and PCC still hold the toilet freehold.

Options being considered about the toilets include; A long term lease with HTC solely responsible for all running costs.

To hand the toilets back to PCC and the understanding that they are no guarantees that they ar kept open.

Recreation Ground and Sports Pavilion: :

PCC propose that leasehold Community Asset Transfer, of the land and buildings including maintenance and repair for 99 years.

Part of the proposal would be to allow HTC to sub-lease part of the land to Hay Bowls Club.

District Council Offices Broad Street:

PCC propose giving HTC 12 months notice to terminate the existing lease on the property.

This would to allow PCC to determine the best future use of the property as a valuable asset.

Decisions to transfer both the Recreation Ground and District Office had been made by the previous administration in March 2016.

Since then the policy on Community Asset Transfers (CAT) has changed with only long leasehold considered.

HTC are unhappy with the way the asset transfers have been dealt with.

Hay-on-Wye Mayor, Cllr Trudi Stedman, said: "We have been struggling to reach agreement with PCC on the terms of the transfer of assets.

"In December 2016 we finally reached a point where we felt able to sign the transfer agreement, just as the legal representative in PCC who had been dealing with this retired.

"Different officers picked this up and started backtracking on some of the things we thought we had agreed.

"Then the new cabinet came into post and at a meeting with them we were told that essentially we were starting afresh and a new agreement would need to be reached.

"That was in September 2017.

"The Hay Town Council transfer agreement has been on the Powys Cabinet agenda every month since March 2017 and every month is deferred.

"This latest response although not satisfactory does at least give an indicative time scale that we can hold them to."