{"id":283099,"date":"2025-11-25T20:29:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/283099\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T20:29:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:29:14","slug":"powys-llanidloes-dental-surgery-plans-approved-by-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/283099\/","title":{"rendered":"Powys: Llanidloes dental surgery plans approved by council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Dr Piotr Dusza has been treating residents\u2019 teeth for more than two decades at the Llanidloes Dental Practice near Great Oak Street.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Powys County Council received a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countytimes.co.uk\/topics\/planning-and-development\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">planning application<\/a> in September from Dr Dusza asking for permission to convert an office on a business park on the outskirts of the town into a dental surgery.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countytimes.co.uk\/news\/25513496.dentist-looking-open-new-practice-powys-town\/?ref=ial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dentist looking to open new practice in Powys town<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A planning statement explained that opening inside Unit 6C at Parc Derwen Fawr, near the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countytimes.co.uk\/topics\/a470\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">A470<\/a> trunk road and a 12-minute walk away from Llanidloes Dental Practice, would support Dr Dusza\u2019s ability to maintain the \u201cvital\u201d emergency dental care service for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countytimes.co.uk\/news\/local\/llanidloes\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Llanidloes<\/a> area.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countytimes.co.uk\/topics\/powys-county-council\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Powys County Council<\/a> was also told that establishing a new surgery would \u201csafeguard\u201d the availability of NHS dental care locally while creating capacity for additional services, including private treatments and a future dental hygienist.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThis will help meet increasing demand and minimise the need for residents to travel outside the area for treatment,\u201d the statement added.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Llanidloes Dental Practice (Image: Anwen Parry)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Last week, the council approved the proposed conversion of the office into a treatment room, waiting\/reception area, and ancillary staff facilities. No objections were raised by Hafren Dyfrdwy and the council\u2019s highways and environmental protection departments.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Powys County Council planning officer Aled Williams gave conditional consent after concluding that the change of use of the office unit to a dental surgery would \u201cnot prejudice the existing or future operational use of the surrounding units and is in-keeping with the character of the business park\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Piotr Dusza has been treating residents\u2019 teeth for more than two decades at the Llanidloes Dental Practice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-283099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}