£803,000 awarded for design work on historic bridge
Neath Port Talbot Council has been awarded £803,000 in UK Government funding via the Levelling Up Fund to carry out detailed design work for a proposed Active Travel project involving a historic bridge. The proposed overall scheme involves renewal work on the Grade II listed Newbridge Road Bridge and redeveloping the adjacent Dock Road as far […]
Two new contracts for Heidelberg in Wales
Heidelberg Materials UK has secured two significant highway contracts for maintaining and improving both local and trunk roads in Wales. The company has resecured its contract with Neath Port Talbot (NPT) Council for the next four years. The agreement, worth in the region of £3.5 million a year, follows a competitive tender process and covers […]
Neath Port Talbot’s Active Travel Delivery Plan gets the go-ahead
Neath Port Talbot Council’s Cabinet has adopted and published a five-year vision for ensuring local people make more journeys on foot, bicycle or using other “wheeled” modes of active travel. At their meeting on Wednesday, October 23rd, Cabinet members approved the council’s Active Travel Development Plan (2024-2029). Its aims are: • Making walking, cycling and […]
£4m approved of road maintenance works across Neath Port Talbot
Neath Port Talbot councillors have given the go ahead for more than £4m of highways engineering, maintenance and other works in all parts of the county borough. It entails bridge strengthening (£300,000), drainage (£300,000), carriageway resurfacing (£1,852,000), footway resurfacing (£143,000), road surface dressing (£260,000), minor works such as traffic signs, barriers, traffic regulation orders (£445,000), […]
£1.7m funding programme to revitalise Neath Port Talbot’s valleys and villages is now open
Neath Port Talbot Council is inviting project proposals to its Valleys and Villages Prosperity Fund (VVPF). The £1.7m VVPF is part funded by the UK Government’s Shared Prosperity Fund (SPF) and is part of Neath Port Talbot’s £27.3m SPF funding allocation over the next three years. The VVPF aims to address the decline in rural […]
Neath Port Talbot Council steps in to temporarily save local bus service
Neath Port Talbot Council has agreed to step in and provide funding for two free shuttle vehicles in the borough, to act as a temporary solution to the cancellation of two services by a local transport company. It comes after the Welsh Government’s Bus Emergency Scheme, designed to keep vital bus services across Wales running […]
Neath Port Talbot Council steps in to help as two crucial bus services are cancelled
Neath Port Talbot Council has arranged for two free to all shuttle vehicles to act as a temporary last-minute solution to the axing by a local transport company of two vital bus services. A number of bus routes are being cancelled or reduced across Wales due to the uncertainty around the Welsh Government’s continued funding […]
Comprehensive £3.23m programme to repair and maintain paths, roads, bridges and drainage across Neath Port Talbot
Neath Port Talbot Council Cabinet members have approved a wide ranging £3.23m programme of improvements, repairs and maintenance to footpaths, roads, bridges and drainage in all parts of the county borough. The council’s Environment, Regeneration and Streetcare Services Cabinet Board approved the comprehensive programme at its meeting on March 3rd, 2023. The proposed package of […]
