The Cheesemarket

WyeLocal popped through my letterbox the other day, with a little insert with it.
It seems that the Hay-on-Wye Community Enterprise group has been in negotiations with the County Council, and may shortly be offered a 99 year lease on the Cheesemarket, which has been sitting there doing not very much for several years now.
They want to renovate the Cheesemarket, and when they started talking to people about it, they found that people were thinking about the whole Market Square as much as the Cheesemarket. So they've come up with a plan for the whole area, and they included a questionnaire to fill in to get local opinions. When I took mine up to the Council Chambers to hand it in, the lady there said she'd had a whole stack of them already, so there's a lot of interest in the scheme. (Mind you, I also met another friend who'd given in her questionnaire with 'NO' written in every box, and the comment 'Why can't things be left as they are?' so they can't please everyone!)
There's a display in the Library showing how they think the Market Square will look, and plans are also available to see at the Council Chambers, Hay Primary School, the Community Centre, Gym and Tonic and the Tourist Office.