Dear Residents

The Shropshire Star (13 January 2022) reported that Powys County Council's Independent/Conservative cabinet advised at its January meeting that it will put forward its final budget before facing the electorate at the local government elections in May. Finance portfolio holder Councillor Aled Davies said that the proposed 3.9 per cent rise in the council tax for 2022/23 will equate to an extra £3.45 million for the County Council.

The council tax includes an amount which is shown as the ‘precept’.

What is a precept? The precept is the community or parish council's share of the council tax. It is added to the basic council tax, collected from householders by the principal authority and paid to the community or parish councils.

Carreghofa Community Council is particularly proud that whereas Powys County Council (our principal authority) has consistently raised the council tax each year, we have not increased our precept figure for the last four years. We have been sufficiently prudent to meet our financial requirements and have been able to improve facilities within the community, such as the installation of adult exercise equipment in the Walls Bridge play area.

We acknowledge that there are still things that we would like to do, and we have plans to replace the benches and picnic tables within the play area, which we hope to install soon. One of the new picnic tables will allow access for a pushchair or wheelchair.

We are always open to suggestions for improvements and would encourage anyone to submit ideas. There are two avenues available for this:

1) Through the contact page on this website

2) By joining us at our monthly meeting, held on the last Tuesday of each month at 7:00pm, Llanymynech Village Hall. 

Confirmation of our meeting dates are posted on this website and on the noticeboard at The Dolphin Inn.

We all want to be proud of our community and remember 2018 when Llanymynech was declared winner of the Montgomeryshire Village Award. Although divided by the border between Wales and England, the village united to showcase its facilities, businesses and - above all - community spirit.

Another more recent show of community spirit is the work undertaken by the Llanymynech Covid 19 Support Group set up by Suzanne Walker and Duncan Borthwick to help people of Llanymynech and surrounding area. This provided much needed assistance and has been a lifeline for many families and individuals. A massive success story.

Thank you for taking the time to read this notice and we look forward to hearing from you - whether good or bad!

Regards and stay safe
Michael Connell
Chair, Carreghofa Community Council