October 2025: Seeking your views on a new health and wellbeing hub in Newtown

This period of engagement ended on 16 November 2025.

The views we heard during this engagement contributed to our Engagement Report have helped us to update and finalise the Strategic Outline Case / Outline Business Case for Phase One. This was submitted to Welsh Government on 18 December 2025 and we await their decision. Visit our main page for the latest updates or sign up to our regular newsletters by emailing us at powys.wellbeing@wales.nhs.uk.

Here are our proposals for a £30m health and wellbeing hub in the centre of Newtown.

The proposal is the first phase of plans for a larger scale campus project which, if funding is granted from Welsh Government, would see a replacement hospital built in the centre of Newtown.

What could the new hub - located on the site of the council’s Y Parc offices - mean for you?

• Access a new home for the public library alongside multi-use rooms for wellbeing activities, including those run by local voluntary groups.
• Benefit from a new training centre and academic library, supporting careers in health and social care.
• Find support for children and families, including mental health services for all ages.
• Visit our community and wellbeing space with refreshments.
• Access primary care services in a state of the art environment.
• A more accessible building for those living with disabilities including a new ‘changing place’ in Newtown.
• Experience improved facilities for children’s services (for example, PTHB children’s services would relocate from Ynys Y Plant) and the Newtown Integrated Family Centre.
• Access community dental services.

A partnership of Powys County Council and Powys Teaching Health Board is developing the proposals for the first phase - a new, state-of-the-art health and wellbeing hub located on the site of Y Parc offices, designed to bring together a wide range of services under one roof and make it easier for you and your family to access the support you need. If a funding bid to Welsh Government for this first phase is successful, the project would see a £30m investment in health and wellbeing facilities in Newtown.

How can I get involved and share my views?

• Read our October Newsletter to find out more
• Join a community drop in session (see dates right)
• Take a look at the images below of what the site might look like.
• Share your feedback in our online survey by until 16 November 2025.
• Pop in to your local library in North Powys where you can find printed information and paper copies of the survey. Please complete the paper survey by 13 November 2025.

Why are we proposing this?

• Many of the current buildings are outdated and not designed for modern health and care.
• We need to invest in services which help people look after their own wellbeing to try to reduce to demand on GPs and our major hospitals.
• By bringing services together in a central, accessible location, the new hub will make life easier for local people.
• This work is taking place alongside plans by Powys County Council to build a new school building for Ysgol Calon y Dderwen on the western side of the campus.
• A number of our current buildings in Newtown are facing significant maintenance bills (circa £2.5m) and are expensive to run.
• This project can help boost business and employment in Newtown.
• We need to work more closely with our partners so that we can best serve the people of north Powys.

What happens next?

Your views will help to shape a £30m funding bid, due to be submitted by Powys County Council and Powys Teaching Health Board to Welsh Government this winter. If approved by Welsh Government - and subject to planning permission - the new hub could open within three years.

The project aims to create a healthier, more connected community, with easier access to preventative services that help you stay well and avoid unnecessary trips to hospital.

This is the first phase of a multi-phase project to improve health and wellbeing services across North Powys. Following our funding bid this winter, we will continue to work with local communities to develop plans for a replacement hospital for Newtown and new diagnostic and treatment facilities.

These developments are now being delivered through a multi-phase programme rather than a single funding bid. This is because Welsh Government has indicated that a phased approach to the Newtown campus is more likely to be affordable and achievable to the public purse.