A scheme to extend Ceredigion’s Urdd Centre swimming pool has been given the go-ahead by county planners.

It is thought that over one million children and young people have stayed at the Llangrannog Urdd Centre since it was established in 1932, which for many conjures up all kinds of memories from midnight feasts, wooden huts, the ghostly legend of the Black Nun, and those attending meeting long-life friends or even future spouses.

The application, by Urdd Gobaith Cymru through agent Spencer Pughe Associates Ltd, for an extension to the existing swimming pool hall to provide accessible changing facilities along with a larger plant room was recently submitted to Ceredigion County Council, with no objections received from local community council Llangrannog.

A planning officer report, recommending approval, said the flat roof extension would also include 50 solar panels in the roof, adding it would “sit comfortably in its context and is low-laying in the landscape”.

It said: “While flat roofs are generally to be avoided, it is acknowledged that the site as a whole boasts a very wide range of architectural characteristics and styles that have developed over several decades, and thus the proposed design will not appear out of place - rather being identifiable as a contemporary addition.”

The application was conditionally approved by planners.