A community group campaigning to transform underused land at Bronllys Community Hospital into a Well-Being Community Hub has written to the First Minister and Welsh Government ministers calling for early discussions over its plans.

Bronllys Well Being Park Community Land Trust Ltd (BWBP) has spent more than a decade developing proposals to bring the site into community ownership.

The community land trust has timed its approach to the opening months of the first Plaid Cymru-led government, whose commitments on integrated health and social care, rural workforce retention, community ownership, and the Well-being of Future Generations Act align, closely with the organisation's own aims.

Policy E5 of the Powys Local Development Plan already supports developing the Bronllys site as a Health and Wellbeing Park. The Hub that BWBP envisages would provide affordable housing to attract and retain healthcare staff, preventative and community health activities, co-care housing for an ageing population, and community-led enterprise and renewable energy, with the hospital remaining at its heart.

BWBP's briefing to the government, titled "Promises Wales Has Yet to Keep," places the Bronllys opportunity within a wider argument: that communities across Wales still lack a reliable route to take on underused public land, and that the Well-being of Future Generations Act, admired internationally, lacks the powers to make its principles bind.

The group said recent reports of potential ward bed reductions across Powys highlighted the need for communities to have a greater say over decisions affecting local services and public assets.

It said: “This week's reports of ward bed reductions across Powys, affecting hospitals throughout the county, are a stark local example of the pattern BWBP's briefing describes: major decisions about the services and assets rural communities depend on, made with little transparency and no obligation to give local people a meaningful voice. It is precisely this kind of decision-making that a strengthened Future Generations Act, with real powers to compel and not merely to recommend, is designed to prevent.”

Jacqui Wilding, Chair of BWBP, said: "For more than12 years, this community has worked to bring underused land at Bronllys Community Hospital into local stewardship, to improve health, housing, and well-being in rural Powys. The new government's commitments align closely with our own, making this the right moment to carry that work forward. We have written our brief in a spirit of partnership, and we look forward to working with ministers to turn shared goals into something people here can see and feel."

Barry Farrell, Deputy Chair, added: "The opportunity at Bronllys is immediate, but it also points to something wider. Communities across Wales still have no dependable way to acquire public land that is lying unused, and the Future Generations Act still cannot compel the bodies it governs to act. We are inviting the government to open that route and to give the Act the enforcement it has always lacked."

BWBP has invited ministers to visit the site and discuss how the project could contribute to the Welsh Government’s review of the Well-being of Future Generations Act.