English: Jenny Rathbone - I'm pleased to see Jenny still with us online - has raised consistently the threat to the Roath Park pub on City Road. That's a pub that has stood on that spot since 1886, a meeting place for local people to come together to discuss and enjoy themselves. After a furious response to a planning application to demolish the pub and replace it with a block of soulless flats, the application was withdrawn, only for a second application to be submitted without any plans to build anything in the building's stead, but just for demolition. There's a precedent for this; there's a pub further down City Road that was demolished and the site has been empty ever since. This appalling application was approved by Cardiff Council, with the leader of the Labour-run council calling for changes to the planning system, saying that his hands were tied, as were those of the planning committee. But these changes are within our powers here at the Senedd. We can change the planning system in Wales; we can't blame Westminster this time, friends and colleagues. It's too late to save a number of our community buildings. No more will there be a cymanfa ganu or tea party in Noddfa chapel in Treorchy, the cathedral of the Rhondda Valley; the last orders have long since been called in the Gower pub, and there'll be no more gigs at the Gwdihŵ nightclub. The Vulcan went to St Fagans to make way for a car park for a handful of cars. It's appalling to see community treasures being demolished, and the best hope for many of them is that they become historical artifacts in St Fagans. Isn't it a shame that a nation like Wales, which has always strongly emphasised community power, gives communities such limited statutory rights? As we were reminded several times today and yesterday, it's deeds rather than words that are important.
Welsh: Mae Jenny Rathbone - a dwi'n falch o weld bod Jenny yn dal gyda ni ar-lein - yn gyson yn codi'r bygythiad i dafarn y Roath Park ar Heol Plwca, tafarn sydd wedi bod yno ers 1886, man cyfarfod i bobl leol i drafod, i sgwrsio ac i joio yng nghwmni ei gilydd. Ar ôl ymateb chwyrn i'r cais cynllunio i ddymchwel y dafarn ac i adeiladu blociau o fflatiau dienaid yn ei lle, fe gafodd y cynllun ei dynnu yn ôl, dim ond i ail gais fynd i mewn a hynny ddim yn codi unrhyw beth yn ei le ond gadael y safle yn wag, dim ond dymchwel y lle. Ac mae yna gynsail i hyn; mae yna dafarn ymhellach lawr yn Heol Plwca wedi'i ddymchwel a'r safle wedi bod yn wag ers blynyddoedd. Cymeradwywyd y cais gwarthus yma gan Gyngor Caerdydd, gydag arweinydd y cyngor Llafur yn galw am newidiadau i'r system gynllunio, yn dweud bod ei ddwylo fe a'r pwyllgor cynllunio wedi'u clymu tu ôl eu cefnau. Ond mae'r newidiadau o fewn ein pwerau ni yn y Senedd yma. Gallwn ni newid y system gynllunio yng Nghymru; does dim modd inni beio San Steffan y tro hwn, gyfeillion. Mae'n rhy hwyr i achub nifer o'n hadeiladau cymunedol. Ni fydd yna gymanfa ganu na the parti eto yng nghapel Noddfa Treorci, eglwys gadeiriol Cwm Rhondda; mae'r last orders wedi hen ganu ar dafarn y Gower ac ni fydd yna gig arall yng nghlwb nos Gwdihŵ. Fe aeth y Vulcan i Sain Ffagan er mwyn creu lle parcio i lond dwrn o geir. Mae'n warthus gweld trysorau cymunedol yn cael eu dymchwel, gyda'r gobaith gorau iddynt i ddod yn grair yn Sain Ffagan. Onid yw'n drueni bod gwlad fel Cymru, sydd bob amser wedi rhoi pwyslais cryf ar bŵer y gymuned, yn rhoi cyn lleied o statws, o hawliau statudol, iddynt? Fel rŷn ni wedi cael ein hatgoffa droeon heddiw a ddoe, mae gweithredoedd yn bwysicach na geiriau.