Penley Village Hall, which was built on Vicarage Lane in 1932, was used as officers’ accommodation during World War Two and then donated to villagers as a community facility.
But an outline application has been submitted to Wrexham County Borough Council for the demolition of the existing village hall to create a single dwelling on the site.
Bert Tennant, a Maelor South community councillor and trustee of the village hall, submitted the application.
He said the money from this plan would go towards funding the new Rainbow Community Centre, with the first foundations soon to be laid near Penley Hospital.
The Rainbow Centre is a £1 million venture and was given a £400,000 cash boost in November last year from the Big Lottery Fund.
Centre bosses plan to move out of the current temporary building, based on the industrial estate, to new premises by October.
During the Maelor South Community Council meeting on Tuesday, February 5, councillors discussed the application and the chairman recommended they support it.
But they asked that the old village hall is not demolished until the new Rainbow Community Centre is up and running.
This was agreed by the other councillors, and due to a personal interest Mr Tennant did not take part in the decision.
Mr Tennant said: “One of the things on the ownership of the hall is that any money from the village hall should go to the village of Penley, so we are making it out to the Rainbow Centre.
“It’s only an outline planning permission and we are not planning to sell the hall until we have somewhere else to go.”
