Controversy continues to court the new Glasdir housing development.
First it was called Rhuthun Parc, then the far more acceptable and linguistically correct Parc Rhuthun. It seems developer George Wimpey (who’s taken Bryant Homes over) has bowed to pressure for disambiguity by renaming the site a third time.
A full-page advert in today’s Free Press gives the housing development the name ‘Glasdir Vale’. Really? Ugh. That’s about as Welsh as Horseguards Parade, London, England. If Wimpey really must go down this road, why not simply call it ‘Dyffryn Glasdir’, without an English language alternative? Except, of course, the vale is called Dyffryn Clwyd/the Vale of Clwyd, not Dyffryn Glasdir. Glasdir’s an area of land within Dyffryn Clwyd behind the housing on the north east side of Borthyn, where the Land was once Green. The one issue is that there's already a residence named Glasdir.
Though having sympathy with those living in Y Parc subject to construction traffic delivering Glasdir materials to the wrong place, we were never particularly convinced about the arguments for changing the name from Parc Rhuthun just becaue of the large number of Parciau in the town already. But Parc Rhuthun doesn’t do it and neither does Glasdir Vale. Especially Glasdir Vale. Why not simply call the place ‘Glasdir’? Period. After all, that’s what everyone in Rhuthun refers to it as.
Or, if Wimpey wishes to attach a certain romanticism to it, rather than ‘Vale’, why not Llyn Glasdir/Glasdir Lake?
; )
First it was called Rhuthun Parc, then the far more acceptable and linguistically correct Parc Rhuthun. It seems developer George Wimpey (who’s taken Bryant Homes over) has bowed to pressure for disambiguity by renaming the site a third time.
A full-page advert in today’s Free Press gives the housing development the name ‘Glasdir Vale’. Really? Ugh. That’s about as Welsh as Horseguards Parade, London, England. If Wimpey really must go down this road, why not simply call it ‘Dyffryn Glasdir’, without an English language alternative? Except, of course, the vale is called Dyffryn Clwyd/the Vale of Clwyd, not Dyffryn Glasdir. Glasdir’s an area of land within Dyffryn Clwyd behind the housing on the north east side of Borthyn, where the Land was once Green. The one issue is that there's already a residence named Glasdir.
Though having sympathy with those living in Y Parc subject to construction traffic delivering Glasdir materials to the wrong place, we were never particularly convinced about the arguments for changing the name from Parc Rhuthun just becaue of the large number of Parciau in the town already. But Parc Rhuthun doesn’t do it and neither does Glasdir Vale. Especially Glasdir Vale. Why not simply call the place ‘Glasdir’? Period. After all, that’s what everyone in Rhuthun refers to it as.
Or, if Wimpey wishes to attach a certain romanticism to it, rather than ‘Vale’, why not Llyn Glasdir/Glasdir Lake?
; )
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