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This is a Members' Page for the Aberystwyth Group.  It is designed for two purposes:

  • to enable members to identify any recent news quickly;
  • and to provide an opportunity for any member to submit brief items which will be of general interest to others in the Group. 

Any items appearing here will be dated, with most recent ones at the top.  Generally, items will be removed after six months. 

Members can submit comments or any items they want included here

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Date Topic Comment Source
16 February 2010 Motorised Vehicles Members will know that there has been a threat for a number of years of a significant increase in the length of routes available for the use of motorised vehicles in the Cambrian Mountains.  Ceredigion Ramblers, together with many other organisations has objected strongly to these proposals, and for the last year or more the whole issue has been in abeyance.

Now, in line with the suggestions that were made by us, the whole proposal has been refocused.

It has been agreed that the new focus of work should be

  • to resolve the legal status on routes where there is currently uncertainty, and
  • to agree on selected routes where best practice management can be developed and demonstrated.

Motorised vehicle users have begun to work through a new organisation, Treadlightly, to educate their members and to improve the quality of those routes that are already in existence.

A Strategic Environmental Assessment of the whole project is also to be undertaken.

This new focus is a direct result of the firm response that we made to the initial document.

 DIB
14 November2009 Nant-y-moch Wind Turbines The Welsh Assembly's TAN 8 document identified the Nant-y-moch area as suitable for wind turbines. 

A map from the developers indicated the"Nant-y-moch Preliminary Layout" appears now to be out of date, but we haven't been given a sight of the replacement.  The original can be seen on  http://www.cambrian-mountains.co.uk/issues/wind.htm

 It shows over 100 turbines covering an area which extends from just outside Talybont in the west and well into Powys in the east, and from Cwm Einion (known to many as Artists’ Valley!) in the north to Llyn Craigypistyll (the source of Aberystwyth’s water) in the south.  It includes the site of Cerrig Cyfammod Glyndŵr where Owen Glyndŵr is reputed to have “held parley, and made his covenant” and is close to the probable site of Glyndŵr’s famous victory in the Battle of Hyddgen. 

The developers have ignored the recommendations produced by ARUP consultants working on behalf of Ceredigion Council who concluded: "It is recommended in accordance with the study brief that the TAN 8 SSA boundary is … refined to remove the environmentally worst performing areas and any additional land not needed to deliver the TAN 8 indicative capacities".

This recommendation would have significantly reduced the area originally proposed by the Assembly, but the developers are now proposing to extend it - to go beyond not only ARUP but also beyond the original SSA boundary.

If these proposals are implemented they will have massive implications for the Group's walking programme.

 DIB
14 November 2009 Suggested Walks No comments have been received.  Do you want more walks on here or should this one be taken off? DIB
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