More than sixty people came to Powys County Council’s workshop to discuss their active travel plans last Friday. We knew that some people couldn’t make it, so we asked PCC to send us their drawings and survey form so that as many people as possible could look at them and send them feedback.
You can download the documents using the links below. We have put them on LCC’s website because we think it is really important for people to have a say. Please email your thoughts BY SEPTEMBER 30TH to activetravelengagement@powys.gov.uk
Drawings
https://www.llangattock-cc.gov.wales/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Llangattock-AT-design.pdf
Survey form
Some information for context:
- By law, highways authorities like Powys County Council are required to promote walking and cycling and improve routes for pedestrians and cyclists and to publish an active travel network map (ATNM). Powys’s first ATNM, was created in 2016 and revised in 2019; when PCC held a pop-up coffee morning in Llangattock Community Hall. Their latest one can be found on this link https://en.powys.gov.uk/article/3962/Active-Travel
- The Llangattock scheme aims to enhance active travel options between Llangattock Primary School and Crickhowell High School and Leisure Centre.
- However, progress was delayed by Covid, and then General Election and PCC did not get funding for detailed designs until this year. The drawings which emerged are significantly more detailed than the previous ones and show for the first time how everyone who uses roads or pavements in Llangattock would be affected.
- During the Place Plan consultations in 2024, narrow pavements, speed and volume of traffic were a significant issue for residents, but detailed designs for safer routes were not available. Parking was also an issue; this Active Travel Plan would result in the loss of the parking bays south of The Horse Shoe Inn and more yellow lines in that area.
- The kissing gates path is not shown, but they say funding is available as part of the package.
- PCC officers who presented the new drawings on Friday said they would normally have two or three options, but the narrow roads in the village mean only one solution is possible. They also say that it would only work for active travel if it was enacted as a complete scheme.
- So, they say they want to hear whether you want this scheme or not. Please email them at activetravelengagement@powys.gov.uk and please help your neighbours to respond as well.