Council told to apologise to younger generations for the poor state of Powys pathways
Calls have been made for Powys County Council to say sorry for the poor state of paths in the county
At a meeting of the council’s Planning, Taxi Licensing and Rights of Way committee councillors received the annual report on the work of the Local Access Forum (LAF) for last year, 2023/2024.
LAF chairman, Graham Taylor said: “Without being too melodramatic I think the council should apologise to the younger generation that it let its Rights of Way (ROW) get to such a bad position.
“The forum has been pressing the council to address the parlous state of ROW in Powys.
“There’s currently 10,000 outstanding issues to deal with and a lot of things are not reported.”
He said that 1,538 new problems were reported during 2023/2024, and 257 were addressed, some of which explained Mr Taylor would have been work from the previous year.
Mr Taylor said: “This is in stark contrast to the national park (Bannau Brycheiniog National Park Authority), in the same year they had 407 new problems and dealt with 497 – they had some from the previous year.
