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Thanks to those regular Glasbury-Hay users who have already completed our questionnaire about patterns of usage on the river – please keep these coming, since they’ll be helpful to Powys County Council as they progress with their Habitat Regulations Assessment. The questionnaire is available at the following link: In the meantime, SWOAPG is continuing to … Read more
Further to our earlier posts – which suggested initially that everything looked set for residentials resuming on Mon 7th June – then questioned whether this was in fact the case following the Welsh Government’s announcement today… …we can now confirm our current understanding that the “phased move to alert level one” announced by the First … Read more
Following our earlier positive message from OEAP and AHOEC, the Welsh Government’s announcement at lunchtime today had left us none the wiser about whether residentials can begin again in Wales next week. If anything it suggests that only 3 (not 6) could share rooms. We’re hoping for more info which we’ll bring you as soon … Read more
We have received the following update following the OEAP/AHOEC meeting with the education team from WG yesterday: (Apologies if the format isn’t great, there’s a limit to what I can do with a mobile phone on the top of a mountain!) The majority of the meeting was spent putting questions that colleagues had asked us … Read more
The Brecon Beacons National Park Authority and Ystradfellte and Pontneddfechan Community Council are asking anyone who has visited, are visiting or are a resident of Waterfall Country to complete a new visitor survey. The survey, being undertaken over the next year through on-site interviews and online, will look at building on current work to alleviate … Read more
NB the message below reflects a change to the advice currently presented in SWOAPG’s Code of Conduct training regarding access to the ‘waterfall jump’ on the Sychryd. We’ll be updating our training to reflect this new advice in due course. As we have advised previously, there has been recent tension regarding use of the top … Read more
Thanks to Andy Lewington of Pendarren House OEC for this update – I believe this refers to the passage from ‘entrance M’ marked on the UBSS & CDG Survey 1977: “Near the resurgence is a short passage that used to be dry with the occasional puddle becoming a wet crawl leading through debris to the … Read more
We have received reports of the landowner on river-left at the top-end of the Sychryd objecting to groups jumping from the lower ledge of the top waterfall (i.e. the ledge used to crawl behind the waterfall). Although he has specifically told SWOAPG that he does not wish groups to jump from his land across the … Read more
Thanks to Storey Arms Centre for providing the following updates: “A dipper is nesting in one of the holes in the broken bridge [below Bwa Maen in the Sychryd Gorge] so pass with care and respect. See pic below.” There have been “huge changes [in the structures and the flow] at Loonies’ Leap and we … Read more
Further to our recent post (copied below), BBNPA has advised us that “we have recently received an engineers report on the Gunpowder Works footpath, and it will have to remain closed until remedial work has been done, so please will you remind providers that this section of the path could collapse at any time and … Read more