RSWCRA

Rhyl South West Central Residents' Association (RSWCRA) is an organisation for people who live in the area from Grosvenor Avenue to Clifton Grove and from Grange Road to Vale Road.

This website gives you information about the association and its activities. The association is run entirely by volunteers for the benefit of the whole community. The hub of the association is the café which is situated in the Botanical Gardens, Grange Road, Rhyl.

In 2003 Denbighshire County Council proposed that the café, which had been boarded up for some time, should be converted to a Registry for Births and Marriages. This would have meant changing the building and providing car parking facilities which would have destroyed the Gardens as a place of rest and tranquillity and also destroyed part of the town’s heritage, which actually belongs to the people of Rhyl. The proposals were noted, however, and a petition was organised, mainly by George Owen of Madryn Avenue, to stop this development. The petition was a success with over 4,000 signatures rejecting the Council’s proposal. The Council noted the objections and found another site.

Following this success by residents it was decided to form a residents' association to look after the interests of residents in the normal manner of such associations but also to incorporate a ‘Save the Gardens Campaign’ in its aims. With the help of the Rhyl Community Agency, a grant was obtained to help form the association which is now called ‘Rhyl South West Central Residents' Association’. The name arose to coincide with electoral boundaries and to ensure it is included inside an area which can apply for assistance from an Assembly Body known as Communities First. The area covered is from Grosvenor Avenue to Clifton Grove and from Grange Road to Vale Road. However as a residents' association, anyone can join and of course the saving of the gardens is for the benefit of every Rhyl resident and any visitor.