RCT Council has now finalised its Resilient Roads programme for 2025/26 – which will design and deliver 10 further schemes to alleviate flood risk at key locations on the highway network. It will utilise £1.5 million funding recently allocated by Welsh Government for such improvements this financial year.
The Resilient Roads Fund allocation to Rhondda Cynon Taf was confirmed in early April 2025, as part of wider funding across several key transportation programmes that included active travel, road safety, improving pedestrian facilities near schools (Safe Routes in Communities) and unadopted roads.
The Council has been successful in securing substantial Resilient Roads funding over several years, working closely with Welsh Government to deliver transportation projects that help adapt to climate change and also address the disruption that is caused by severe weather and storm events on busy roads.
Officers have now finalised the Council’s £1.5 million programme of Resilient Roads schemes to be developed and/or delivered in 2025/26:
- Mountain Road in Williamstown – to be developed.
- Castellau Road in Beddau – to be developed.
- St Illtyds Road in Church Village – to be developed.
- Abertonllwyd Road in Treherbert – to be developed and delivered.
- St Luke’s Road in Llwyncelyn – to be delivered.
- Cemetery Road in Porth – to be delivered.
- B4278 Gilfach Road in Tonyrefail – to be delivered.
- Ynyshir Road in Ynyshir – to be delivered.
- A4058 Dinas Depot in Cymmer – to be delivered.
- Mill Street in Tonyrefail – to be delivered.
Further details about each scheme will be communicated to residents and communities once they are finalised.
Councillor Andrew Morgan OBE, Leader of Rhondda Cynon Taf Council and Cabinet Member for Infrastructure and Investment, said: “I’m pleased that this new £1.5 million funding from Welsh Government will enable us to develop a further 10 Resilient Roads schemes throughout 2025/26. This fund helps us target key areas of the road network in Rhondda Cynon Taf that we know to have a history of flooding – and develop schemes to alleviate the risk.
“Last year’s funding enabled us to deliver several important schemes – at the A4058 north of Hopkinstown, at A4058 Cymmer Road in Dinas, at the A4059 near Newtown in Mountain Ash, and most-recently at Turberville Road in Porth – to name a few. We continue to welcome the support from Welsh Government to help us continue with a new programme for the year ahead.
“The programme will be delivered alongside our flood alleviation investment that is benefitting from separate £4.52 million funding from Welsh Government in 2025/26 – plus match-funding from our capital programme. This will enable 27 further schemes to be developed and/or delivered, focusing on improving culverts and drainage systems from sources such as ordinary watercourses, surface water and groundwater. Main river flooding is the responsibility of Natural Resources Wales, and sewer flooding is the responsibility of Welsh Water.
“We’ve delivered more than £100 million of infrastructure upgrades and flood alleviation works since 2020 – and while Storm Bert in November suggested our investment succeeded in reducing flood risk to around 2,200 properties, it also served as an important reminder that there’s still much more to be done.
“With our 2025/26 Resilient Roads programme now in place, officers will continue to develop the 10 named schemes and will bring several of them forward for delivery in due course – to protect households, businesses and infrastructure.”
