Glynhafod School

Posted on September 16th, 2007 filed in History, Photos, Politics, Rhondda Cynon Taff

Glynhafod School lies at the foot of a mountain.

It was closed last year. The Local Authority, Rhondda Cynon Taff Council, claimed there were too many spare places.

They gave the usual marketing mumbo-jumbo excuses about “rationalising”.

It was reported in the Cynon Valley Leader that the property was sold in an auction in London.

The buyer was one Ian Roberts, a local man who is manager of Cwmaman Institute.

There is a brief ‘walk-around’ video clip on Glynhafod School on Youtube.

The development at Glynhafod is reminiscent of what happened to the site of the old Aberdare Boys’ School : an old school site was sold off in a questionable manner by Rhondda Cynon Taff Council only to be developed for hyper-profits by some local developer/entrepreneur.

It is the Grammar of Capital thing again.

The house-building economy has to expand. It is an imperative of the capitalist system. The conversion of schools into housing estates is perfectly normal in a system which must expand, exploit, and dominate.