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BLAENCWM
COMMUNITY FORUM
Committee ~ Lead
Officer ~ Public Meetings
~ Achievements ~ Image Bank
LATEST INFORMATION:
Background
Established mid. 2003 via a public meeting, serving the 165 properties
within the
Blaen y Cwm village area.
Improving the environment of the Village
Benches have been painted red throughout the village,
Fence repainting at the square,
Dead trees were removed and tree thinning took place at the square and infants
park,
The grass was cut back on the land reclamation site,
Scrub cut-back at the entrance to the junior park,
Two large flower planters were bought and sited at the square with flowers
and shrubs being planted in them, The planters had the name of the village
and the year 2004 shown on the front to commemorate the siting of them,
At the junior park the gate was repainted
Trees and scrub were cleared from the river to allow free flow of water and
preventing debris being trapped and slowing the flow,
Telephone box repainting,
Bus shelter was renovated with the stonework and slatework being repaired and
restored to it’s original state.
River Clearance & Flower Planting
Undertaken
Worked with CwmNi’s environmental theme group and local residents
to undertake a river clean day and bulb planting day with the village. (In
total over 125 residents helped over the five CwmNi villages).
Possible
Future Project
Village Gateway Project – welcome sign, seating & planting
Your
Blaencwm Steering Group Representatives are:
Paul Mears; Roger Nott; Hayden Roderick;
Newton Sampson; (one position
currently vacant, contact 777536 for further details)
Board Representative: Gweirydd Evans
CwmNi Lead Officer is
Rhys Burton.
Any queries can be directed to Rhys on 01443-777536.
Tuesday 7th December 2004, 7.30pm. Venue to be announced.
Established
by CwmNi in Summer 2003, the Blaen-y-Cwm Steering Group have made tremendous
strides in securing funding for environmental projects within the village.
These have included painting of benches and bins on the square, the new flower
planters for the square and removing overgrown vegetation and dead trees. The
Group also worked with the Environment Agency in March to remove overgrown vegetation
along the course of the river and in May participated in the ‘Five Village’ river
clean-up organised by CwmNi.
The steering group was successful in obtaining £2,000 of Communities First
Trust Fund money to run an environmental project during the summer. In fact the
group have been successful in obtaining funds totalling £3,800 since they
were formed – well done!!
CwmNi’s Environment and Housing Theme Group have assisted in funding the
works being carried out in Blaen-y-Cwm such as the new flower planters for the
village square.