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Improving digital Council Tax billing

Rhondda Cynon Taf Council has made it easier for residents to view their Council Tax bills online, without the need to sign up for e-billing

23 December 2025

Council Team Provides a Lifeline to Rhondda Cynon Taf Residents

A team of dedicated Rhondda Cynon Taf Council staff will work around the clock over Christmas and New Year - as they do every day – to support and reassure over 4,000 elderly and vulnerable people.

22 December 2025

Incredible partnership brings festive cheer to those in temporary accommodation across RCT

Thanks to the generosity of Coleg y Cymoedd Aberdare catering staff and students, over 120 people experiencing homelessness and residing in bed and breakfasts across RCT have been gifted a Christmas dinner, desert, and care package.

22 December 2025

RCT Food Gets SILVER Award!

A partnership helping local businesses and community groups promote healthy and sustainable food has been awarded a national Sustainable Food Places award.

22 December 2025

Exciting International Heritage Collaboration Underway

A powerful international heritage project is underway, connecting Rhondda Cynon Taf to the legacy of the Spanish Civil War through newly uncovered historical links

22 December 2025

Improving access to maintain culverts at key location near Hirwaun

Advanced notice is being given for a Resilient Roads work scheme starting in the New Year, which will require temporary traffic lights on A4061 Rhigos Road

22 December 2025

Safe Routes proposals for Cwmparc progressed to the next stage

The Council has published the statutory notice to deliver a series of measures in Cwmparc that aim to improve road safety for pedestrians – with a particular focus on the area around Parc Primary School

19 December 2025

Two brand new schools opening next year are officially named

Cabinet Members have approved the proposed names put forward for newly-forming schools in Clydach Vale and Glyn-coch – following recommendations made by the temporary governing bodies of the two respective schools

18 December 2025

Proposal to install defibrillators at all school sites endorsed by Cabinet

These emergency devices would be made accessible to the wider local community on a 24/7 basis, where appropriate and possible.

18 December 2025

Town centres and community organisations to benefit from Pride in Place funding

Important new funding of £1.5 million will be allocated across Rhondda Cynon Taf's eight town centres over two years, after Cabinet Members considered how the UK Government's Pride in Place Impact Fund could best be spent

18 December 2025

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