What We Do

Your Community Council is your first point of contact for any community issues you may have.  Some of the jobs your Community Council does are:

• Sets the Precept (its annual budget, collected with your Council tax) and decides how this is to be spent
• Comments on planning applications/issues
• Produces a regular newsletter delivered to every home – called ‘Where We Belong’
• Provides and manages this website to inform the local community and visitors
• Owns Groesffordd Village Hall – which is a registered charity, run by the trustees
• Supports Llanfrynach and Cantref Hall which is owned by a registered charity and run by trustees
• Supports local charities that successfully apply for small financial grants
• Owns the freehold of Ty Bach, Llanfrynach Public Toilets, which are leased to Llanfrynach and Cantref Hall who manages them
• Maintains playgrounds in Llanfrynach & Groesffordd
• Provides and maintains noticeboards throughout the community
• Provides and maintains bus shelters
• Provides and maintains public seating/benches
• Works with the Police to safeguard the community
• Works in conjunction with highways authorities on highway improvement and traffic calming measures
• Liaises with our County Councillor
• Councillors try to keep in touch with what is going on in their patch and are always willing to try to help residents where they can – or find the right official or contact to deal with specific problems
• Does further things that it considers are likely to promote or improve the economic, social or environmental well-being of their area and/or persons in it

Welsh community councils were given the final discretionary power in the above list (referred to as “the Well-being Power”) under the Local Government (Wales) Measure 2011.  It can be used provided the community council is not restricted from doing the things by other legislation.  Because the Well-being Power is wide-ranging, the Welsh Government regards it as a ‘power of first resort’ to Community Councils if they are in any doubt about whether existing powers would enable them to take a particular course of action.  See Welsh Govenment Statutory Guidance on use of the Well-being Power.