Author: Rhys Gregory

The Royal Welsh Agricultural Society (RWAS) has unveiled plans to launch a brand-new Welsh Food and Drink Village at the 2023 Royal Welsh Show! Branded as Gwledd | Feast, the new food village will showcase the very best of Welsh produce in a relaxed, family-friendly environment with seating for more than 500 people and a full programme of entertainment on a live music stage. Gwledd | Feast will be situated near Entrance B and will be open for the duration of the four days. Food is a key element to all Royal Welsh events and, building on the success of…

An intergenerational sewing project to upcycle old clothes, was designed and carried out by Year 5 and 6 pupils from Ogmore Vale Primary School, following a series of lessons about how the future will be impacted by present day actions. Nandika, a pupil involved in the initiative, said: “[The lessons] taught us the importance of reusing old clothing, and how much clothing is wasted every year. We decided to do something about it, to spread the message of reusing clothes.” Enlisting the help of the craft group at Halo’s Ogmore Valley Life Centre to repurpose old clothes, pupils learned an…

1.6 tonnes of coffee pods have been recycled from over 2,600 properties in Cardiff since April this year. The new scheme allows households to sign up to the scheme with Podback, so the council can collect coffee pods from residents’ homes at no cost to the taxpayer to continue to increase the city’s recycling rate. Cllr Caro Wild, Cabinet Member for Climate Change at Cardiff Council, said: “As a council we don’t have any power or influence over the types of packaging and waste produced by companies selling products and materials. Our role is to recycle as much of it…

Two community ‘drop in’ sessions will be held next week, offering local residents the opportunity to view and comment on plans to upgrade Pentwyn Leisure Centre. The drop-in sessions will take place at Pentwyn Leisure Centre on Wednesday 19thJuly (10am-7pm) and the Powerhouse Community Centre on Thursday 20thJuly (10am-7pm). For those unable to attend a drop-in session, an option to provide comments online will be advertised via Cardiff Council’s social media feeds from July 19th. The online feedback will remain open until the end of the month. The recently revealed plans for the centre include: A new 20m x 8m…

Building work is expected to start on Cardiff’s new 15,000-capacity indoor arena site by the end of this year. Cardiff Council’s Cabinet has discussed the progress of the project and approved the recommendations to sign a range of legal agreements at its meeting on 13 July, so that both the indoor arena and the regeneration of the Atlantic Wharf site can take a further step forward. The Cabinet report recommended that the Atlantic Wharf regeneration site is split into two specific areas, with one area being put out to tender to deliver a specific development and the other to undergo further…

A new fflecsi bus zone that includes Tenby will be launched in time for the summer holidays by Transport for Wales and Pembrokeshire County Council. As well as covering the popular tourist destinations of Tenby and Saundersfoot, the new demand responsive transport zone will service inland communities as far as Pembroke and Pembroke Dock. The zone will replace the current 360 and 361 fixed-line services between Tenby and Pembroke Dock, providing a more sustainable and usable service for communities without a regular bus service as well as linking with railway stations. The Council has received £180,000 of grant funding from…

Pembrokeshire County Council has awarded the pre-construction services agreement for a housing development in Milford Haven to WB Griffiths & Son Ltd. The site is a former retail building in Charles Street that was demolished in 2018 with plans to build a mixture of 1 & 2 bed flats for local social housing residents. The development will provide modern sustainable homes for future generations, designed to be highly energy efficient and built to have a positive impact on the environment. Cllr Jon Harvey, Cabinet Member for Planning & Housing Delivery, welcomed the award of the contract to WB Griffiths &…

RCT Council is inviting residents to have their say on the development of RCT Council’s FIRST ‘Land Based Solar Farm’, to be located on a ‘terraced’ former colliery site above Coed Ely in Tonyrefail. It is anticipated that the Solar Farm will generate six Megawatts of power. Five Megawatts of power will be connected to the national grid with the potential to also supply one Megawatt of power to the nearby Royal Glamorgan Hospital. The Council are finalising the cost saving estimates but early indications are that it will substantially reduce the Council’s energy costs which are currently around £21…

Public consultations on two joint Wales and England Fisheries Management Plans (FMPs) have been published today. The two plans focus on king scallops and seabass and are included in the first group of FMPs in the UK to be consulted on. FMPs will set out the policies and strategic direction for the management of fisheries to ensure fish stocks are restored and maintained at sustainable levels. Each FMP will specify the fish stock, type of fishing, area covered, authority responsible and the indicators to be used for monitoring the effectiveness of the plan. Taken together, the creation of the Fisheries Act, the…

Motorists are advised to plan ahead before they travel in the coming months as a series of major road works and lane closures are set to begin on two separate sections of the M4 this summer. The road works between junctions 47 and 49 will take place from August to December. There will also be diversions in place between junctions 24 and 28 on the eastern side of the Brynglas tunnels in September. Both projects involve essential maintenance work to ensure the longer term resilience of the road network and to avoid any unplanned emergency repairs. The work will involve…