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Two weeks of subsidised bus travel during the school Easter holiday

Cheaper bus travel will again be made available for residents, with all single fares for journeys that start and end within Rhondda Cynon Taf being capped at £1. This will apply in the two-week school Easter holiday in April 2025

11 April 2025

Four new Learning Support Classes to be established in September

The proposals, which will increase the overall number of these classes from 48 to 52, will be now implemented from the next academic year (2025/26)

11 April 2025

New funding for 27 flood alleviation projects over the year ahead

Welsh Government has now confirmed its funding to Rhondda Cynon Taf during 2025/26 via two of its programmes – the Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Programme (£2.83 million) and the Small Scale Works Grant (£1.69 million)

11 April 2025

Carriageway and road marking renewals at Quarter Mile Junction

Through traffic on the A4059 will be maintained with two-way traffic lights (April 22-25), while the junction will be out of use for traffic heading to and from Abercynon

10 April 2025

Pop, the Oldest Veteran in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Celebrates His 102nd Birthday with a Veteran's Buffet

On Wednesday, April 3, Gordan 'Pop' White, affectionally known as Pop, celebrated his 102nd birthday with a veteran's buffet hosted by Taf Ely Veterans in Rhydyfelin Community Centre.

09 April 2025

Rhondda Cynon Taf Celebrations for VE Day 80

On 8 May 2025, we mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day. Rhondda Cynon Taf will join the nation in uniting to celebrate 80 years since the end of World War II in Europe.

04 April 2025

Safer walking routes to improve road safety completed in Hirwaun

Work to install a safer environment for pedestrians in Hirwaun has now been finished, including new and upgraded crossings that have been brought into use across three locations in the village

04 April 2025

Easter holiday footway work in Maerdy begins major renewal scheme

The first element of work within a major resurfacing scheme at the A4233 in Maerdy will take place over the school Easter holiday – to renew a section of footway at Glanville Terrace

03 April 2025

Site update for the ongoing Extra Care development in Porth

The Council Leader and Cabinet Member for Health and Social Care have visited the construction site in Porth, where work to provide our new extra care housing development continues

03 April 2025

Ysgol Llanhari welcomes Pupils from Guadeloupe!

On the 4th of March, Ysgol Llanhari welcomed pupils from Collège Germain St. Ruf in Guadeloupe, an overseas department and region of France in the Caribbean.

02 April 2025

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