Ten members of either ‘Aberystwyth Ramblers’ or CMS (or both) met up with walk leader Dave Taylor for a walk through Dyffrynnoedd Hengwm and Hyddgen, starting at Maesnant – a once-abandoned farmstead cum Field Center but now looking to be undergoing a major make over. Compared to the heat wave of previous days the weather […]
We were very pleased to receive a reply from Welsh Government, albeit from the Local Government and Planning Directorate rather than the Energy Minister as expected. In replying, they have announced a complete review of Future Wales The National Plan 2040 and associated planning policy. It’s a major task which does need doing but will, […]
The next Members’ walk is a joint one with Aberystwyth Ramblers, led by Dave Taylor and heading out into the hinterland beyond Pumlumon and Nant y Moch on 4 July. This is an 18km (in “old money” -eleven miles) circular (or more accurately is it a ‘lollipop’?) walk in a fairly remote area just to […]
Sunday’s route round Llanwrthwl bore the title Brilliant Basics, which may have caused some to wonder what was in store. It refers to Welsh Government grant funding designed to enhance visitor experience and the local community. In this case it funded signage and gates along public rights of way around the village of Llanwrthwl. Most […]
For once, fine weather accompanied Aberystwyth Show (which has never been kind to us before) so our stall was able to spread out and take the space we needed to make our breadth of interests and campaigns stick. Lil Tudor-Craig’s wonderful banners illustrating the beauty and biodiversity of the Cambrians made an excellent backdrop to […]
The PEDW portal and deadline for responding to Statkraft’s proposal to build 12 150-180m turbines on the slopes of Y Garn and Pumlumon Fawr are now closed. We put our objection in on the day but PEDW have been quite slow in uploading it to their portal so we thought we’d post it here ourselves, […]
It will not have escaped notice that Plaid Cymru campaigned to form the new Welsh Government in part on a significant change to the previous approach to renewable power stations. Indeed, the new Energy, Connectivity and Enterprise Minister proposed a Bill on Community Energy only two years ago and has written on his blog about […]
On Sunday 14th June, Richard Tyler will be leading the next members’ walk. We’re starting at 10.30am from beside St. Gwrthwl’s Parish Church in the centre of Llanwrthwl village, which revels in the wonderful What3words address of providing.eagles.pausing. Parking is along the right-hand side of the road leading into the village, after turning off the […]
Developer Statkraft has applied for permission to build 12 turbines up to 180m (590ft) high, on the slopes of Pumlumon Fawr and Y Garn. They’ve chosen the deceptively Cymraeg name for this Norwegian project, calling it Lluest y Gwynt. The public has until 10 June 2026 to submit any response to the application. If the development […]
Last spring was the first time we had seen significant wildfires in the Cambrians and we hadn’t thought, with the very damp start to the year and the cooler spring, that we’d be seeing it again this year. But sad to report, the Elenydd has now been ablaze for nearly a week with a […]