This information has just been passed to Llangattock Community Council by Alun Griffiths, the contractors who are carrying out the work on the pavements leading down to the Vine Tree starting this Thursday.  LCC has committed to passing on information to residents because disruption is expected.

A reminder that work will begin next week (from 23/2026) to turn the pavement from the edge of Llangattock Village down to Crickhowell into a shared-use walking and cycle route. This means there will be two-way traffic lights on Hillside Road, by the allotments. The work will be done in 150m stretches, working downhill to the bridge. Accessible pedestrian access will be maintained throughout. The contractor, Alun Griffiths, is creating a works compound at the bottom of the Glebe Field.

Powys County Council's Highways, Transport and Recycling Service say it's part of a wider Active Travel project, under discussion since 2019, which aims to promote walking and cycling to and from Crickhowell High School and Llangattock. This work is restricted and stops short of the edge of Llangattock Village itself. A consultation carried out last autumn attracted a wide range of comments from residents, including many from the centre of Llangattock. Further in-depth analysis of these is ongoing by PCC, alongside more recent engagement involving the primary school, parents, and Crickhowell High School. An initial review has taken place, and officers report they are working with the design team ahead of escalating the findings to senior management for their consideration of next steps.

At this stage, the work does not include any further sections within the village. LCC continues to press for improvements to the kissing gates path and other benefits to residents to be included.

PCC has said it will provide a further update in due course and has clarified that delivery of this initial phase does not imply approval of the whole scheme.

Planned Road Closure in the middle of Llangattock next Monday and Tuesday (December 1st and 2nd) between 0930 and 1530 for BT Openreach. Please avoid the area and take alternative routes into and out of Crickhowell.

Crickhowell High School are running a series of events in the evenings of the last week of this half-term designed to let parents and carers know how to engage well in the consultation process. It’s particularly important that those families with primary-aged children participate. Primary aged children are more likely to be affected by future plans than those already attending Crickhowell High School as any future plans will take a number of years to implement.

Details can be found in the image. Please share this widely to get the message out that we need to be heard if we want to prevent the future of our sixth form being up for debate!

Please get in touch if you would like to join the hub team.

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

https://www.llangattock-cc.gov.wales/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Llangattock-Survey-Bilingual-19092025.pdf

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.

THIS EVENING: your chance to talk to highways officers about their ideas for reshaping roads in Llangattock to create safer walking and cycling routes through the village. This is best explained by them, in person, with maps, so please come to Llangattock Community Hall tonight from 5.15pm to 7.45pm. If you can't make it, ask a friend or neighbour to attend on your behalf. These ideas would mean significant changes for how we walk, cycle and drive through and in Llangattock.

This is an incredibly important drop-in session for Llangattock. Powys County Council wants to speak to residents who live in or travel through the village, by car, bicycle, wheelchair, or on foot. Pram users, parents and children who walk to and from school are particularly welcome.  They want to chat about their ideas for changing the roads and pavements in Llangattock.  We urge you to make every effort to go along to Llangattock Community Hall on Friday, 19th September, between 5.15 and 7.45pm, speak to the officers and make your views known.

We are sorry to say that the toilets in Llangattock Recreation Ground are being regularly blocked with excessive amounts of toilet paper. The system is modern, checked recently and should be able to cope with normal usage. Getting them cleared is unpleasant and sometimes falls to Cllrs to do. If they can't be cleared easily, we have to bring in expensive specialists who have to be paid for out of the Council Tax precept. Please use the toilets responsibly and parents, please supervise your children and discourage them from playing in the toilet block.

Below is the presentation given to a public meeting about a Llangattock Community Hub by Councillors and members of the new Llangattock Community Benefit Society. Click bottom left to advance the slides.

What could a Llangattock Community hub / cafe / shop be like? Come and help decide at a public meeting, 7.30pm Monday 23rd June 2025 at Llangattock Community Hall, Clos Ciliau, Llangattock NP8 1PH. Parking is limited, so please walk if you can. Tea/coffee will be provided.

Please come to this meeting to view and comment on the latest ideas to create a community hub/café and small shop at Llangattock Recreation Ground.  A small working group of residents and Councillors have created what they believe to be a viable plan, but the project will need community support. Come and see sketches of what it could look like, where it could be and give us your views.  This meeting is being supported by Llangattock Community Council because residents said it should be a priority in recent consultations.

This is the second meeting about whether Llangattock should have a hub/cafe/shop.  After the first one, last year, a working group of Councillors and residents was set up to examine the viability of the project.  At this meeting, you can see drawings showing what it could look like, where it could go, how it could be funded and how it could run.  It's at 7.30pm on Monday June 23rd.  Please come along to Llangattock Community Centre, Clos Ciliau, NP8 1PH.

It's in. Green roof to follow. Our thanks to County Councillor Cllr Jackie Charlton for Llangattock and Llangynidr for her campaign to get a bus stop!