Council looks for help to identify individual spotted committing environmental offences
Carmarthenshire County Council is looking for help to identify an individual caught committing a fly-tipping offence. On 7 February 2024, a person was captured on CCTV walking towards the waste bin compound for Y Ffwrnes Theatre with a carrier bag. She then discards the bag on the ground outside of the bin compound and walks […]
Council restores Figyn common peat bog
Carmarthenshire County Council’s Rural Conservation Section has undertaken important work to help restore a valuable raised peat bog in Carmarthenshire. Water has been seeping out of the bog on Figyn Common near Llanfynydd, therefore specialist contractors were commissioned to create a long bund in the bog to help retain the water within it. This action […]
Business Renewable Energy Fund
The Council is inviting Carmarthenshire businesses to take advantage of the Business Renewable Energy Fund as part of its UK Shared Prosperity Fund [UKSPF]. The fund will provide capital support to businesses towards the purchase of renewable energy systems for their business premises. This comes as Carmarthenshire County Council continues its commitment to economic development […]
Foothold Cymru’s Full Circle/Cwblhau’r Cylch project is proud to share that ‘Litter out of...
Foothold Cymru's Full Circle / Cwblhau’r Cylch project is proud to share that ‘Litter out of Llanelli,’ a local campaign to fight litter, is...
Council tackles environmental offences to help keep Carmarthenshire clean
Carmarthenshire County Council’s Environment Enforcement team continues to protect the environment, with a total of £2,550 in fixed penalty notices (FPNs) issued for litter, fly-tipping and other environmental offences during December 2023. The following £400 FPNS were issued for fly-tipping: To a Llandybie resident for depositing seven refuse bags of household waste at Burry Port […]
Cycle path refusal
PLANS for a Gower cycle path which more than 2,000 people petitioned for have been turned down. A Welsh Government-appointed planning inspector has ruled that the scheme proposed across Clyne Common from Bishopston to Mayals interfered with the rights of commoners and would be harmful for nature conservation and the landscape. It is the same […]
Areas Of Grassland Managed By The Council Could Become Meadows
Areas of grassland managed by Carmarthernshire Council will hum with bees and other pollinators under plans to convert it into wildflower and meadow habitat.
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The Big Talking Point – How Do We Reach Net Zero?
A debate about the cost of six new bungalows at a council meeting in Swansea was part of a larger story about what it...
Solar Farm Wins Sustainability Achievement Award
Hywel Dda University Health Board’s solar farm development in Carmarthen has been recognised with a Sustainability Achievement award by the Institute of Healthcare Engineering...
The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust celebrates the stories of amazing volunteers in South Wales
This Volunteers’ Week (1-7 June) the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust is celebrating the contribution of some of the amazing people who give up their...