Hi Folks,

Here is a round up of the lastest NPT meetings we held in the rural villages recently.

25th January 2010 Pwllglas.

The meeting was well attended by 12 residents and our thanks to those that came to the meeting.

The only issue raised was that there was'nt up to date contact details for the Rural NPT in the Village. This has now been addressed and the details are displayed at the village hall noticeboard.

We will also be undertaking a speed survey in the village.

The next meeting is to be in 3 months time and the dates will be published in a future blog.

26th January 2010 Llanfair DC.

The meeting was attended by 5 local residents.

Issues taken away from the meeting are:

* Parking by the Cenotaph during the day is causing concern for some residents. This will be monitored by PC Davies and myself.

* School children crossing the main road through the village during the day to use the Village Hall. This again will be monitor by ourselves and will visit the school to offer some road safety advise.

* Groups of youths conregating by the car park causing a general nuisance. We havent had any reports of Anti social behaviour, but will monitor the situation.

27th January Llanbedr DC.

The meeting was attended by 5 local residents and 1 large Rottweiler Dog called BEN !!

Issues taken away from the meeting are:

* Speed through the the village and the main A494. In hand will attend with Marc Musgrave to conduct speed surveys.

* Street lighting in the village. This will be passed to the council for actioning.

28th January Llandegla.

Over 50 residents attended this meeting and this was the highest amount of people to come to one of our meetings. Needless to say the Community came in numbers to address the main topic of discuss ion, the cancellation of the bus service into the Village due to inconsiderate parking.

We also had 2 representatives for the bus company attend for any questions that they might be required to answer.

Also in attendance was the local County Councillor Christine Evans.

The meeting started at 7pm and we arrived at approx 18:45 and people were already sat in the Village Hall and more were arriving !!!! This issue has obviously effected many of the residents and this meeting was their opportunity to ask when and how we can solve the issue.

Feelings were running high in the meeting and everybody was trying to ask the bus reps questions which they answered. Councillor Evans made a very vaild point by saying it is a community problem and therefore the community should try and resolve it. However we all should try and communitcate with each other and raise the awareness of this problem in the Village to maintain the Bus route as it provides a vital service to the residents of the Village. PC Davies has contacted our press office and they will be sending a publication to all the local papers and to walking magazines to highlight the problem to them as the Village attracts alot of walkers to the area.

Bus drivers have agreed to carry mobile phones and to photograph any obstruction they come across that would prevent them from entering the Village, they will then contact the Police. PC Davies and myself have been in contact with our imaging department and have had some parking postcards made to be placed onto vehciles that are causing obstruction to make them aware of this issue. In our absence we are hoping to leave the postcards at the Post office but will seek approval first.

Also we intend to visit the local school and set the children a competition of designing a poster to high the issue of parking in the Village. We will ask the district Inspector Dewi Roberts to choose a winner and a prize will be kindly donated by GHA Coaches and a local resident has kindly agreed to donate a cash prize to the winner also. We then hope to get the winning poster turned into a information poster for the Village which our imaging deptarment will design.

A big thank you to all who attended the meetings it was nice to see so many peole taking an intrest in there community. And we hope to see you at the next meetings soon.

That is all for now the next round of meeting will be published soon so keep an eye out for a meeting coming to your Village soon !!!

All the best.

 Tim