This is what Cardiff’s latest hub could look like - at the cost of £450,000.
Llanishen police station on Station Road will be converted to house a library, computers and training rooms.
Face-to-face advice will also be available offering housing, welfare and benefit advice, into work and training support, digital inclusion and money advice, and free phone and online access to other council and partner services.
The neighbourhood police team will provide community access sessions at the Hub.
The estimated cost for refurbishment and conversion of the premises is £450,000 and provision is included in the Hubs.
Subject to planning permission, work would take place later this financial year.
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Police station's future secured
Cardiff council’s Cabinet members gave the plans their approval with council leader, and ward councillor Phil Bale, saying it not only improved facilities for his own ward but secured the future of the police station.
He said there had been concerns the police station would close because of budget cuts but this arrangement secured its future.
According to the 2014 Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation and other sources, the area has particular social needs including high levels of rented housing, a large number of elderly residents and access needs.
One of the ward’s 12 “Lower Super Output Areas (LSOA)” in Llanishen is within the top 30% most deprived of such classified areas in Wales.
The council said that by bringing face-to-face facilities back it will help meet the specific social needs in the area.
The new Hub will be located in the ground-floor of the Llanishen police station building which is no longer needed by South Wales Police.
They will remain on the first-floor and rear of the building and will lease the space to the council.
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'Fantastic news for Llanishen'
A report which went to the council’s cabinet said: “The Llanishen Hub is a positive example of partnership working between the council and the police authority in utilising building assets to the benefit of the local community.”
Councillor Bale said: "It's fantastic news for Llanishen and the wider community.
"It will really help bring a bigger range of services to people and a greater opportunity for the local shops because of the location of the police station in the village.
"There's a real opportunity now for additional services to go into the hub and the library itself, which is very dated and only a part time facility, to relocate to a modern setting and have longer opening hours".
South Wales Police's divisional commander for Cardiff, Chief Superintendent Belinda Davies, said: "We have been working with Cardiff council for sometime on this project.
"We are really excited about the opportunities that a local community hub will generate and about becoming even more accessible to the community we serve.”
Schools system plans
Ambitious plans to invest £50m into Cardiff’s schools system were also approved.
It means that, subject to planning consent, a new £30m secondary school will be built in Caerau to replace Michaelston Community College and Glyn Derw High School.
Controversial plans to build a new two-form entry Welsh-medium school on land next to the old Royal Hamadryad Hospital in Butetown were also given the green light.
Changes to provision in Llandaff North will, meanwhile, see a reduction in Gabalfa Primary School’s entry and an increase in pupils at Ysgol Glan Ceubal.
