Notice is hereby given that there is a vacancy for a councillor to represent the Llantrisant Town ward on Llantrisant Community Council.
Llys y Cwm – Office Move
Having outgrown the Parish Office at Caerlan Hall. July 2025 saw Community Council Staff move in to Llys y Cwm. Empty since October 2024 when the Cylch Meithrin moved to YGG Castellau. Llys y Cwm offered a dedicated Council Chamber, seperate offices for the Clerk and other administrative staff. Additional storage for event resources and archives.
The meeting space (Council Chamber) is available to hire as a hybrid meeting space in the afternoons and evenings.
Thank you to James Dally, who was on work experience with the Community Council last summer and made the video to show the community our new offices.
Christmas on the Hilltop
Summer Floral Displays
The floral displays are looking lovely this year. Each of the baskets has an internal reservoir which gets filled with water twice a week by Community Council Staff. The baskets are also fertilised fortnightly.
The planters are filled with perennial plants which are now in their third year and becoming more established.
New Defibrillator at Beddau Spar
New Defibrillator outside Spar in Beddau We are pleased to announce there is now a public access defibrillator (PAD) outside Spar in Beddau, which will be available 24/7.
The new Automated External Defibrillator (AED) is FULLY automatic and like other AEDs in the area gives you full instructions on how to use it.
Tom and Ben from Pontyclun First Responders co-ordinated the whole project with a big thank you to Lisa James from Spar for playing the equal part in fundraising £660.00 and Llantrisant Community Council ward members for helping with the rest of the funds.
Also, a huge thank you to Ashley Adams for fitting the cabinet within a few hours notice, and further offering to do all the rest of the First Responders cabinets too!!
Tom and Ben, will be organising awareness sessions in the foreseeable future .
Instructions to access AED:1. Phone 999 and follow the call handlers instructions
2. They will then provide you with the code to access it
IF USED: Please return it to a member of staff either in Spar or the Cokeworks, this will allow us to get it back operational as soon as possible.Electric Van
The Community Council is extremely grateful to RCTCBC for the long term lease of a fully electric van for the use of our outdoor team.
Perennial Planters
2022 saw a new planting policy for the 40 Community Council planters. This year the planters are all full of perennial plants, many of which are “plants for pollinators” Since the Council purchased the planters over 10 years ago they have been planted each spring with annual bedding plants. It is hoped that the perennials will come back bigger and better each year and reduce the expenditure on new plants.
Unfortunately some of the planters have already experience vandalism with people, either stealing the plants are just seeming to think it is fun to break the taller stems or throw the plants around the ground. This is a problem we experience every year – hopefully as the plants become more established and large the temptation to pull them out will diminish.
Fifteen Minute Heritage Lottery Grant
Llantrisant Community Council has been successful in receiving funding for a #15 minutes Heritage Lottery Grant. The aim of the grant funding was to make people aware of heritage within 15 minutes of where they live.
The Community Council had already worked with the Penrhys Pilgrimage Group planting bulbs at Llantrisant Castle and advising on the route as it passed through the Community Council area. The Heritage Lottery Grant seemed the ideal opportunity to provide information boards to let local residents know a little bit of local history and also make them aware of the new Penrhys Pilgrimage Way which was completed in 2020. The boards would also provide information for those walking the 21 mile walking route from Cardiff to Penrhys about the area they were currently walking through.
Partnership working between the Community Council, Rhondda Cynon Taff Bourough Council and representatives from the Penrhys Pilgrimage and Llantrisant Town Trust have resulted in two boards being designed. One is sited on the Rhiwsaeson Road and one on the Llantrisant Common.
For more information on the Penrhys Pilgrimage Way please see their website:http://www.penrhyspilgrimageway.wales/
Parish Office is now a Keep Wales Tidy Litter Picking Hub!
Help make your community a cleaner and safer place to live, play and work.
A new litter picking hub has opened at The Parish Office, Caerlan Hall, Newbridge Road, Llantrisant which will allow the general public, community groups and businesses to borrow litter picking equipment to clean up their local area.
In total there are 20 litter pickers, hoops and hi viz jackets available to borrow, it does not matter if it is only you or a whole group you can still borrow the equipment.
The hub has been set up by the environmental charity, Keep Wales Tidy in collaboration with Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council and funded by Welsh Government.
Cllr Stephen Powell, Chair of Llantrisant Community Council commented “We are pleased to be able to be a hub for this fantastic community resource for the local area and look forward to working with the different people who come forward to borrow the equipment.”
Keep Wales Tidy encourages individuals and groups to take local ownership in order to improve environmental quality. Access to equipment will also help new and existing groups in becoming more sustainable and enable them to work independently.
Download a loan agreement form here and send it back to office@llantrisant-cc.gov.wales to book the equipment now!!
Grants Awards Evening
26th October 2019
In 2019, 69 community organisations received grants from the Council. Many of the groups attended an awards evening on the 26th September at Cwm Welfare Hall, to recognise the importance of the work they do for the local community.
RCT Community Wind Band welcomed the guests with an excellent performance. Taff Ely Ramblers spoke about the work they had completed on helping relaunch the bunny walks and Afon Dance shared their attenDANCE 50+ classes video of The Twist.
Llantrisant Netball and LitterFree Beddau and Tynant received awards for contribution to the community.