Article: `Deranged' council blocks sale of house three times; Potential buyers `not local enough', insists Gwynedd.(News)

Byline: Kirsty Buchanan

A BEREAVED daughter yesterday attacked a North Wales council that has blocked the sale of her late parents' house three times because potential buyers were not local enough.

The ex-council house in Maentwrog was inherited by Jane Tolfree and Dana Demidoff following the death of their parents, who bought the isolated property as a retirement home 20 years ago.

Gwynedd Council maintains it has a legal right to veto sales and ensure the house remains available to the local community, but Welsh Office Minister Don Touhig has urged the council to ...

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