No money for the much-needed Aberdare Bypass but the Council has secured more than £8.5 million of taxpayer funding for key transportation schemes within several Welsh Government grant programmes in 2025/26. This includes important funding for active travel, resilient roads, road safety, improving pedestrian facilities near schools, and unadopted roads. Key specific allocations include the…
Has the penny finally dropped? Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT) Council has published its School Walking Route Assessment—a series of documents outlining the walking routes children are expected to use when they return to school in September. This change stems from a Welsh Government policy, endorsed by Labour councillors in RCT, which effectively ends free school…
Dear Editor We as parents have been running a campaign for the future generation and current minors attending both Welsh and English secondary schools. Home to school transport has been decided to not continue in RCT for some living under the 3 mile threshold. Welsh speaking schools will now suffer from this decision, who will now have no other option than…
Important external funding of £4.52 million has been secured for flood alleviation in Rhondda Cynon Taf in 2025/26. This Welsh Government support will complement the Council’s own investment in this priority area over the year ahead – enabling 27 further schemes to be developed and/or delivered. This funding cannot be used by the Council to…
Advanced notice is given for important resurfacing at the A4059 Quarter Mile Junction in Abercynon, over four days in the school Easter holiday (April 22-25). Through traffic on the A4059 will be maintained with two-way traffic lights, while the junction will be out of use for traffic heading to and from Abercynon. The Council’s contractor…
Passenger growth has been slow for not only buses in Wales but also for trains, leading to a £295m bailout for Transport for Wales (TfW) by the Welsh Labour Government last year The Welsh Conservatives have raised concerns about potential financial risks associated with the Bus Services (Wales) Bill, following data showing that bus passenger…
Hirwaun Wrgant taken from Cynon Culture The earliest reference to coal in the Aberdare Valley Is found in a Survey of XI th. King James, A.D.16I4: “There is Coal within the Common called Hirwaun Wrgan.” The first historical mention of the district is early in the eleventh century. The prince of Glamorgan Gwrgan ap Ithel…
The UK and Welsh Governments have unveiled proposals to amend environmental permitting regulations in a bid to simplify and speed up the process for lead regulators the Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales “to create, amend and remove types of exempt facilities and activities which are not required to hold an environmental permit”. The consultation,…
Rhondda Cynon Taf Council has seen a staggering rise in the number of claims lodged against it for damage caused by potholes in the last three years. As Britain’s ‘pothole crisis’ hits record levels, an investigation by Accident Claims Advice has revealed the local authority spent more than £31K in compensation alone as the number of claims…
A controversial land deal in Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT) has sparked outrage, with critics questioning why taxpayers’ money has been wasted on repurchasing land that was once government-owned. The site in question, formerly home to the Trecynon chicken factory and previously the Hover and Girling site, was once a major employer in Cynon Valley during…
