🚜 Grass Cutting Contract Opportunity – Llangattock 🌿

Llangattock Community Council is inviting tenders for a 3-year grass cutting contract (2026–2029) covering the Recreation Ground and Cemetery.

✔ Regular mowing & strimming
✔ Biodiversity-friendly management (wildflower & no-mow areas)
✔ Immediate start

📅 Deadline: Friday 1st May 2026

📧 Request full details: Llangattockcc@gmail.com

📞 01873 770562

Site visits recommended. Please contact the Clerk to arrange.

The kissing gate opposite the Usk Bridge and along the side of Llangattock Cemetery have been removed temporarily. The contractors, Alun Griffiths, tell us that this is to create an accessible route while the pavement is worked on in order to make it wider. While this phase of work is ongoing single-file traffic controlled by traffic lights will be switched to the other side of Hillside Road by the Vine Tree. The contractors say this will probably happen on Friday. When the gates are replaced, the path will be raised up to prevent it flooding. LCC continues to work with others to improve this path and make it accessible to all. More news on that to follow in due course.

The Council will consider applications received within the next 5 days due to maintaining services levels.

Please click the link below for information about the resurfacing works in Crickhowell which are likely to lead to significant disruption.

https://traffic.wales/current-projects/crickhowell-phase-2-resurfacing-works-footway-and-drainage-improvements

The roadworks at the bottom (northern) edge of Llangattock, will edge downhill in two stages over the course of the next week, with phase three, down to the Vine Tree junction, starting on the 20th March. These images have been provided by the contractor, Alun Griffiths, for information.

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.

Apple Day returns this year - come along on Sunday and bring your apples and have some fun!

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.