Brecon & Radnor Branch of CPRW

Are you fed up with litter around our beautiful county? Do you want to help in the final push to get Presteigne’s newest nature reserve planted? CPRW Brecon & Radnor are joining with Coed Llanandras, Presteigne’s new area for nature recovery, to organise a litter-pick and tree-planting morning on Monday May 8th at 10.30am (till about 1pm). If you would like to take part (and do one or the other, or both) then come to our meeting point, the entrance to Coed Llanandras, opposite The Warden (Warden Road, Presteigne LD8 2NL). Wear stout shoes and bring water/flask of coffee. Cake will be provided. It would help us plan if you can let us know you are coming (but it’s not essential): email emma.lilley@btinternet.com. We look forward to seeing you!

NFU Cymru Brecon & Radnor County Chair, Sharon Hammond, interviewed by Paul Whitehouse in Our Troubled Rivers: Series 1 Episode 2. BBC 5th March 2023 “Anything we apply to the ground is not allowed to be less than three metres from the river…”

Sharon Hammond runs a 120,000 intensive broiler-chicken raising enterprise contracted with AVARA (merged Cargill and Faccenda UK poultry enterprise) at Upper Dollwynhir on the River Ithon in the catchment of the highly protected, but dying, RIVER WYE.

CPRW interactive Powys intensive poultry planning map shows this is one of many:

Sharon shows Paul a faint manure-spreading line in the grass very close to the river:

Sharon says: “anything we apply to the ground is not allowed to be less than three metres from the river…”

Paul says: “you see, that seems quite close to me, Sharon, now who decides that?”

Sharon says: “that is a Welsh Government Directive…”

Paul says: ‘to me the river looks dead…”

The Welsh Regulations say: