Community Vision and Ideas

Improve gateways and reduce traffic speed into the villages using staged features that maintain the speed limit and raise awareness of blind bends and other risks, including signage, build-outs, planting where feasible, and a primary school-designed campaign.

Improve footpaths and lighting on key routes such as the school, shops, and beach, including demand-sensitive lighting using motion or traffic sensors.

Manage traffic and pedestrian movement around Ffordd Yr Odyn through measures such as directing people through the car park, providing disabled parking and ramped beach access, and adding carriageway treatment and signage.

Identify sites for off-street parking provision to accommodate seasonal, peak-period, and overflow demand.

Assess the feasibility of a community e-bike hire scheme connecting outlying neighbourhoods.

Control development between Aberporth and Tresaith to protect green fields, farmland, and the separate identities of the two communities.

Improve public rights of way across the community so they are clear of vegetation, well signed, and linked together to form circular trails.

Deliver improved biodiversity across parks, verges, amenity spaces, and under-used public land through native tree planting and mixed habitats that support water retention, carbon capture, and well-being.

Support the Aberporth Poetry Trail through a free bilingual app interpreting the trail and Dic Jones’s life and work, alongside a celebratory launch event at Blaenannerch Chapel.

Develop heritage interpretation materials across the community and promote them at key arrival points such as car parks, public toilets, and parks.

Develop a community website celebrating life in Aberporth-Parcllyn, the role of the community council, local events, and other community information.

Explore options for youth provision across community venues and outdoor activity programmes focused on youth enterprise, nature-based activities, and innovation and technology.

Develop accessible and inclusive play provision for a wider age range at Banc Y Dyffryn Play Area and the neighbouring recreation field.

Improve beach access and facilities including public toilets, storage, a viewing deck, surf club facilities, stepping stones over Nant Owni, restrictions on cars parking on the beach, and other related improvements.

Assess the capacity of local infrastructure, including sewerage, within the community, specifically between Parcllyn and Aberporth and along the Nant Gilwen corridor.

Create a new community hub and amenity space including a pavilion with changing rooms and social space, upgraded pitches, youth pitches, parking, improved access, biodiversity features, walking paths, picnic areas, and potential additions such as a pump track and skatepark.

Enable delivery of rural housing on allocated sites that supports age-balanced homes, meets local design codes, integrates with the local community, and takes account of existing second homes supply.

Develop mobile health services using community venues for health checks, screening, vaccinations, wound care, and GP services.

Develop well-being activities such as men’s sheds, allotments, and a community café.