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Some of newtown housing estates have not seen a street cleaner for months its appawling

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Pcc will have to lead by example on getting its own house in order being green in all their buildings and services if they expect others to follow this lead

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The amount of litter those flimsy boxes make is appalling and the men just throw them there are shards of broken splintered plastic box all down our street, the plastic tags on food boxes they rip them off throw them and then dont even leave the bags. The best solution i have seen is all in a wheelie bin clean tidy safe greener for everyone. Come on powys stop making us sort everything by hand when there is machines to do it. Its the 21st century for god sake

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Help cut waiting times in A&E, ambulance times and waiting lists in hospitals by providing more face to face GP appointments, using specialist Pharamacy services more and consider opening up the walk in centres again. Educate people to use the appropriate health care provider and not to turn up at A&E because for example they have an ingrowing toe nail ! Consider charging people for repeatedly missing agreed GP and hospital appointments
Consider minimal charge for prescriptions rather than free for all ( free for Children and over 60s)

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Too many power cuts in Four crosses /Llandrinio region. Replace old connections

Consider more green alternatives,  home insulation, wind/solar power ground source/air source heat pumps and encourage use by providing grants( that are not means tested) towards costs. Why should working people  always have to pay in full for greener alternatives.
More electric car points
For every large tree that is cut down, replace with new tree. This helps with the climate , wind barriers etc

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Reduce amount of potholes and poor road surfaces inc in rural areas,which causing damage to cars. Cleaner roads - get any farmers who muddy roads to clean the surfaces on a regular basis
What happened to Pant bypass? too many heavy lorries  using roads that not built to take the amount of traffic. Consider dual carriageways in some areas due to amount of traffic.

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Need kpis to measure all this e.g.

Fairer

Ratio of highest to lowest pay grade
% kids on free school meals
Food bank stats
New build social housing / size of register

Stronger

New business start ups
Output per worker
Travel times between north and south
Business rate retention

Greener

% co2 reduction corporate fleet
% co2 reduction corporate property
% co2 reduction council housing
% of council farms in environmental schemes
Area of land covered by NNR/SSSI/aonb status

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The existing housing stock should seriously he looked at and everyone should automatically he helped to make their homes more emery efficient and solar panels should be retro fitted. This is the way forward to make Powys Greener and fairer for everyone.

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As a resident in Powys I think it is disgusting that when I make it all the way up to Neuadd Brycheiniog that the office is not open to the public. Enough of all of this working from home. Staff should be back working in the offices and serving the public like they are paid to do. It is impossible to get through to anyone on the phone.

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Welsh government has pivoted almost its entire capex to climate. Its not that they're not funding new schools and things but they're focusing the capital on energy saving. All services from libraries to pools now need to buy new boilers and lighting more than they need books even. Throw the lot at buildings to make them all low operating costs will then free up revenue for staffing and books and things anyway

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For small shops and socially desirable enterprises. Already farms, & utilities are all exempted, charity shops are reduced, so, why not local repair stores , laundrettes, gyms and artisan bakers

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The amount of dog poo on this street is slightly disgusting by a school too you would think the council.could put some poo bins out at very least

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More countryside access whichis suited for families with young children or disabilities. My kids cant do more than 500m without a tantrum or being carried so some all ability trails in easily accessible park and short circular walks would be good

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Stop cutting back frontline services to the point where its routine to have to work overtime and use agency which costs more than employing people on plaintime

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Victoriana being demolished for modern ugly buildings should be made a conservation zone to protect this special area

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Large swathes of contaminated land which i think no one would argue is safe to develop could at lest be utilised for pv arrays

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A huge brownfield site in Presteigne lies empty because it is all subject to a "potentially  contaminated" stigma. (Very expensive cut and paste surveys etc, that serve very little real purpose are needed to appease  pen pushing contaminated land officers). Large parts of the site are not contaminated and could be quickly  and safely developed.Pragmatism is whats needed not tick- box jobsworths. The council could dig some holes around the site and send soil samples to a lab.
Too many high salaried jobsworths work for PCC.

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Require developers to orientate new buildings to optimise solar collection. All additions/ conversions above a minimum area should require retrospective fitting of solar panels and installation of insulation.
Essentially require all buildings to meet Passiv standards

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For rural communities to survive we need enterprise not subsidies.
People would be more likely to invest time and money into a small business if they did not have the threat of being subject to non domestic rates sometime in the future. Small business rates relief is subject to change unlike the exemption that Farms have. The rural community is not all about farming. Farms are able to invest in  new buildings without the threat of being  taxed on them.
Its no wonder pubs close and try to change their use class.
Planning consultees are far harder on the non farming community when commenting on planning applications.The planning system is a mess and does not encourage people to use brownfield sites.
Private enterprise should be encouraged and meddling community Councillors should spend their own money not tax payers.

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A residential block in the new Ysgol Cedewain build is very much needed to keep children local to their families. Ysgol Pen Maes have one in Brecon. There needs to be unity in provision between north and south Powys .

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Help farmers and do something value added with wool. Newtown textile industry,  loft insulation and peat free compost all spring to mind as economic and environmental opportunities which help our vital local graziers

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Most councils make a lot of money from these and a useful service in an elderly county

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Localify working to cut travel and close offices and install more solar energy to cut bulging energy bills

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And improving well-being and productivity for all. Instead of giving staff inflation pay rises we cant afford give them time off instead. Move to a 35 hr week with pay freeze instead this is effectively 6% more £'s per hour that way and let people volunteer for less. The days of 9 to 5 monday to Friday are gone. Home working flexible times will save money and reduce the mental health strain absence care costs and give people time for family fitness volunteering instead. Help society and save tax payers money. Its a no brainer.

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Still far too many people fighting the tory party war blaming the poor for their catastrophic failures and sleaze, as promoted by the Daily Mail and other right-wing gutter “newspapers”.
For everyone’s sake, stop spouting nonsense about treating unemployed people like criminals and start reading up on government-endorsed asset-stripping and neglect.

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We should be protecting the bio diversity and heritage within the town. Watton Mount's Virginia Creeper should be regrown as it was planted near a hundred years ago to cover the building. The Old Library Ivy wall should be celebrated and maintained and used as an educational feature for the College aswell as benefitting the locals. Ship Street will loose a beautiful feature, the noise and pollution will increase as a result of its total removal and the red listed endangered Starlings will be further threatened as well as Millions of beneficial bees, wasps and hoverflies. A National Parks town should be setting a better example. Brecon Town Council should never have let NPTC destroy Watton Mounts foliage and the same applies to the Old Libraries Ivy. In future developers such as Asbri Planning  should be forced to recognise the importance of existing habitats on buildings and incorporate that into the design wherever possible.

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The closure, whether it be permanent or temporary, will have a direct impact of the physical and mental well-being of Powys residents - of all ages. Those who cannot do exercise elsewhere use the pools to keep active, and our children are learning the life saving skill of swimming. Not everyone can afford to take their children to other swimming pools which likely won’t have the capacity for everyone anyway. This is a shocking development which immediately affects our community.

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I can appreciate that running a pool is expensive and closing that facility for a few months could make savings but having the nerve to suggest that Presteigne Leisure Centre close completely is extremely vexing. The people of the area put much effort into raising funds to build the centre and it is used by the school and all age groups. In the winter when opportunities for outdoor sports is lessened by poor light and weather, it is needed. Do we want to have obese children and people who put a burden on our health service? Is this a fairer, greener Powys where people have to travel to keep fit. As for consultation, what consultation, days have been given…. It is not good enough.

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The CEO for example is on around £150k a year, how she can sleep at night whilst taking that salary home and cutting services I do not know. It is more than the salary of and MP for goodness sake.

Salaries should be reviewed and capped. If they don't want to do that job for £60k then they're in it for the money and not the county. Cutting these obscene salaries would save so much money, and make me respect the council somewhat.

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Effective communication is the key between the council and the community to work together.
If you get the communication right, the already existing  strong community would be more willing to work with you. Poor communication relating to closure of swimming pools has united the community against the council.

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It would benefit community if there would be vegs and orchards cultivation instead of grass in areas far from roads, and colourful  flower plants by the roads.

The reduction of cost & noises from mowers plus support for wildlife (bees and other beneficial creatures) should be noticable pretty soon.

Free food for all from those veg gardens would be an extra  bonus.

This requires some change in the society, culture and needs some promotional action to show people the benefits both for humans and environment. I believe it would work in Powys.

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Do you honestly think a 10 day window is a long enough period, when PCC have done nothing to publicise their plan ahead of time, and come up with a wishy washy bunch of objectives that are neither clear nor measurable (so we'll never know if they are delivered)

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In many more liberal countries less militant unions representatives elected by the workforce sit on boards of directors of some of the top firms. Would a Union Representative attending Cabinet or some sort of workforce representation at high level executive meetings be appropriate to help make decisions in a way which dont impact on frontline keyworks who are mainly on very low pay.

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i know its not massive, but if there was hundreds of them to have dynamos on all exercise bikes at the gym and schools and offices would atleast power a few lightbulbs, scaled up this could save hundreds of pounds of electricity but its the bigger gain in terms of people keeping warm, getting fit and actively doing their bit for climate change which would be greener, leaner and fitter

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Something central in newtown or Llandrindod is needed to save people travelling to Aberystwyth for hopsital

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Earmarked houses for care workers to support elderly population reduced mileage claims with local jobs for local people not staff travelling in from west Midlands to nurse powys pensioners in ghost villages

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A visitor levy would generate income for essential local services (which also help attract tourism) especially more public toilets, more litter bins, more signage in laybys and prominent attractions and more marketing to promote destination Powys

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They could for example clean streets,  knit draft excluders for oaps, stacking shelves in food banks

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most councils recycle garden waste locally and then give away the compost this encourages everyone to recycle more and helps us to grow our own and be greener too so its good for everyone

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Prior to 2015 the council had a brilliant set up with plastics being sorted in Welshpool by a charity for learning disabled adults created essential jobs for these people and meant we could chuck all types of plastic in one box which would be 'greener' and fairer for everyone

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to encourage recycling and save diesel. also in rural areas, dont collect recycling every week bring back the old bottle banks for villages in the sticks and this would save an awful lot of milage and carbon

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Climate change: State-owned wind farm 'could cut bills' - BBC News

Welsh energy should be state owned by Wales not english or european companies. More community renewables would help

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Plans for a publicly owned energy company could see bills reduced and renewable supplies directly benefit communities, a minister has said.

The proposal is for a joint venture between the Welsh government and developers.

Profits would be used to construct wind turbine sites owned by communities.

Climate Change Minister Julie James says "it sticks in my craw" that foreign governments get profits from wind farms in Wales.

Ms James said communities would benefit from either owning turbines, getting homes fitted to save energy or from lower bills .

"This will be a company that brings more of the profits back to the people of Wales directly, in the form of a state developer, but we will have to do that in a joint venture partnership with a range of other providers," she said.

At the moment, many big wind farms across Wales are foreign-owned, in some cases by other governments, with profits helping to fund their public services.

The biggest wind farm in Wales and England is at the heads of five valleys across south Wales.

Pen y Cymoedd, owned by Vattenfall, has 76 turbines that generate enough electricity for nearly 190,000 homes - one sixth of homes in Wales.

They also generate profits for the Swedish state, which owns Vattenfall, with profits going towards heating Swedish hospitals, schools and other public services.

Rahel Jones, from Vattenfall, said the company has spent £300m in Wales in the past eight years and was not put off by the Welsh government's plans.

"Competition is good," she said.

"We can all work together to deliver the energy system we need and tackle climate change."

A new wind farm is being developed between Port Talbot and Maesteg by the Irish government, owned by ESB and Coriolis, generating enough electricity for 100,000 homes.

Gwynt y Môr, the offshore wind farm in north Wales, is owned by RWE, based in Germany. It has also taken over Innogy Renewables which built Wales' third largest wind farm near Brechfa, where there are 28 turbines.

Ms James said: "In the previous industrial revolution in Wales, the wealth of Wales were worked by its people, the profits were exported away. We need to make sure that doesn't happen again."

How would it work?

Under its proposals, the Welsh government would help a developer with access to land, planning process, infrastructure and negotiations with the National Grid.

The developer would bring in funding or venture capital - the money needed to get the project going, with the aim of having its investment returned when it makes profit.

There would be a package so that the community benefited directly, and profits would be shared, with the Welsh government using its share for another project.

However, Ms James added that "each joint venture will be developed differently, each site will have a different set of criteria".

While there are existing community energy projects, the Welsh government said its proposals would include more community benefit and involvement.

"Some of the turbines will be directly owned by the community," said Ms James.

She also wants "off-grid" communities who do not have oil or mains gas to get power directly from the turbines, if possible, making it cheaper, or energy efficiency improvements made to homes.

Dyfan Lewis from Community Energy Wales wants decisions about how the money is spent to be decided at a local level.

He said: "We want to see the money go to community initiatives, funding different social businesses or helping people in fuel poverty. They have the choice then of where to use that money and how to do it best"

Communities have been getting money from wind farms already - for people living near Pen y Cymoedd, there is an annual fund of £1.8m they can bid into.

Our Space, or Ein Lle Ni in Welsh, has had £81,500.

Sylvia Strand and Jonathan Gregory, film and television music composers from Tre Herbert, Rhondda Cynon Taf, are working with people to record their stories.

Ms Strand said the project was a way for "the people of this area to tell the history of this area, from the ice age to the present day, in their own words".

Recording in various locations, they work with 10 community groups with participants ranging from eight to 98 years old with contributors including a woodland therapy group and choirs.

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Climate change: State-owned wind farm 'could cut bills'

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Plans for a publicly owned energy company could see bills reduced and renewable supplies directly benefit communities, a minister has said. The proposal is for a joint venture between the Welsh government and developers. Profits would be used to construct wind turbine sites owned by communities.

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Review rural pools, centralised into main towns, zero carbon only, biomass and solar thermal, more insulation and pool covers, low flow showers, part time hours, early finish, offer all PCC and NHS staff a membership to increase use as a benefit in kind it would reduce your wage costs.

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Something i think should be explored as per Highlands of Scotland is safari in a 4x4 with more wild places we have red kites and the osprey place but this could be a major visitor attraction as well as greener if we bring back the beaver and wolves and rewild the upland areas to attract bio visitors who will then stay on local holiday lets which supports farm incomes

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need to focus on thermal efficinecy before renewables, adopt a "fabric first" approach to buildings, solar panels are the cherry on the cake but if the cakes made from cheap flour it will not be a tasty cake. Much more wall, floor and loft insulation is needed retrofitting onto all homes as an urgent priority, we need to insulate britain.

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Put recycling into two big wheelie bins one for paper/card one for plastic/cans/glass and collect them three weekly on an alternating cycle with rubbish so one bin every week but on a cycle - lorries cut by a third, carbon footprint shrunk, lorry driver shortage solved, less hassle and less litter than those silly little boxes.

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I have nothing beautiful to say about this useless lot

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I have nothing beautiful to say about this useless lot

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As so many businesses will sadly fail now and over the next couple of years this will free up alot of prime real estate in the town cores. Careful consideration needs to be given to the practicablity of finding new commercial tenants for these premises or more likely converting more and more into town centre flats. If so there must be a "community" in the town centre still, a shop to buy fresh food and somewhere to go and do laundry and have a coffee, so it is a balancing act. The Council could help by relocating its large offices into smaller town centre high street premises and making sure libraries and markets are in the town centre not the outskirts to serve as an anchor and draw people in. Buildings need to be rennovated to very high standards of insulation to allow people to live alongside a noisy nighttime economy in peace.

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If you're smart you could both reduce costs and go green at once, for example community orchards on school playing fields would save you mowing them and create free food for children, sorry kids apple pie on the menu AGAIN today :)

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No policies or projects can be fairer or stronger if they increase our living costs, we need everything you do to be looked at through the prism of working families on the breadline, focus on making food, fuel, travel, and council tax as low as possible firstly before the "green" agenda

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With the SE region getting their metro and having giant investment into transport and internet 5G/fibre services, it is important that Powys is also relevant in keeping ahead and pushing forward with greener investments.

With such an emphasis on 'working from home' now post-covid and the changing landscape of available jobs, having a connected Powys will allow business and people to sell their products and services to a much larger array of customers.

This is important because it allows people to stay in Powys, and enjoy the rurality of life they love, whilst being able to engage and seize opportunities to progress their careers and build their families in a safe environment.

Building fibre networks to all nooks and crannies of Powys is unfeasible and would never be possible, but by investing into high speed 4G and 5G services to improve coverage where it is currently and bring it to those areas that need it, would help to promote Powys on a much larger stage as a greener and thriving place.

Allowing subsidised buses and a more frequent service although may cost more than it makes in some places, the wider benefit is that the more rural communities are still able to offer their unique heritages to those who wish to visit who otherwise couldn't, families can visit easier and people can access essential services (banks, posting letters, shopping for essentials, coffee with friends, gp appointments) so much more easily. This will reduce the cost of living for many people, reduces the burden on the nhs as people will be more resilient and can also improve quality of life for many people.

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Use local contractors especially voluntary sector to deliver services

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Use local contractors especially voluntary sector to deliver services

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Alot of council services could be done faster cheaper and better via local firms from tarmac to libraries to care homes powys should use more social enterprises and charities in particular to deliver services in the community less centralised everything staffed from Llandrindod by council employees

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People should eat seasonal welsh products to reduce money flowing out of the country and save carbon etc. Council should promote local markets and support more local vegetable production orchards small holdings with polytunnels more allotments and abattoirs and breweries etc.

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Help people save money have school kids and retirees and unemployed volunteer harvesting blackberries from the roadside and gathering nuts and things to donate to food banks

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Most people could save £500 a year using a log burner instead of oil but might not have £2,500 spare to install one? Could PCC install it and then take £50 a month back via their council tax bill to spread the cost over 5 years... theoretically they could afford it as their heating bill is much reduced and you create local markets for firewood which supports farming and forestry locally

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People complaining about farming must appreciate regenerative agriculture is essential for biodiversity.  Farmers will plant trees and hedgerows if the policies are right. Importing chicken from Thailand and beef from Argentina is not green.  Locally produced free range protein which selectively grazes wildflower meadows is the solution to carbon, soil, biodiversity, fuel and food poverty and more. Stop bashing farmers and keep Powys as it is a traditional beautiful agricultural area.

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Im freezing my 🤬 off in an old stone cottage on expensive heating oil but as i work full time there is no grants for loft insulation. Whilst i appreciate it should be nationally funded in the absence of any support powys should step in with emergency insulation grants non means tested. Everything going only to poorest is not fair

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Do not allow river pollution to continue. We need to protect our green spaces and give our biodiversity a better chance of survival. Leave grass long so bugs and insects can thrive. Plant more wild flowers on verges and roundabouts. Protect our forests and grow them bigger.

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We need to be greener, in everything that we do! More investment in renewable energies. Put solar panels on all buildings, allow wind farms to be built. We must act now if we stand a change to save ourselves from climate disaster!

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I think a stronger, fairer, greener powys is:

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I think a stronger, fairer, greener powys is:

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Stronger: Where the economy thrives because the council supports and encourages businesses to grow and create good paid, secure jobs. Where housing is affordable and accessible and communities are enabled to prosper. Where power isn't held at county hall but pushed out into communities. Where public services are properly resourced and are the tools to enable resilience, active citizens and healthy, active lives. Where the Council leads the work to make powys a Living Wage County so that a fair day's work is backed up with a fair day's pay.

Fairer: Where those experiencing poverty are supported and enabled. Where energy efficient Council housing is built. Where the next generation is given the support and opportunities to get on and do better than the last. Where the Council enables all people in Powys, regardless of class, gender, age, ethnicity or background the opportunities to live secure and fulfilled lives. Where the Council leads by example as an accredited living wage employer. Where training and skills opportunities are encouraged and supported to grow the next generation of council/public sector staff.

Greener: Where the Council delivers net zero by 2050 and takes the Powys public sector family on the road to net zero with it. Where new homes are energy efficient. Where public transport is clean and green (as well as regular, affordable and properly connecting our communities). Where poorer households are given support and resources to move to net zero. Where parks and green spaces are accessible, open and available in every community. Where food is grown locally and sold locally. Where food is accessible and affordable. Where our natural resources are harnessed to create clean power for Powys.

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The council has to deal with the inaction of its predecessors and modernise its school estate so learners benefit from modern, fit for purpose  learning environments that reduce the excess capacity in school places, which will deliver value and savings.

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Blow Putin away with a massive drive on on-shore wind and lower our energy prices to stimulate the economy and help hard-pressed households and create thousands of skilled engineering jobs in Powys maintaining them

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Instead of building scruffy industrial estates with dirty little garages, warehousing and self storage, powys should build "high tech" 'science parks' like they have in Wrexham and Aberystwyth which create more technical skilled work instead.

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Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime. Powys needs to have a blitz on pavement parking, nuisance neighbours, litter and dog fouling, noise and gangs street drinking and such like. Please stand up for the silent law abiding majority against people who flout the rules and be STRONG on the yobs

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Close schools where they are unaffordable. There should be a minimum of 90 pupils in each school.

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A realistic determined approach to recognising the vital work of Support Workers. Not just PCC workers but those agencies that take the lions share of the workload. There should be parity accross organisations and currently Support workers are minimum wage yet have to adhere to multiple regulations that affect peoples lives, yet this commitment is not recognised in their pay. Powys Social services MUST lobby parliament to uplift the pay for the people that care for those the majority would prefer to forget about.

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A realistic determined approach to recognising the vital work of Support Workers. Not just PCC workers but those agencies that take the lions share of the workload. There should be parity accross organisations and currently Support workers are minimum wage yet have to adhere to multiple regulations that affect peoples lives, yet this commitment is not recognised in their pay. Powys Social services MUST lobby parliament to uplift the pay for the people that care for those the majority would prefer to forget about.

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Stronger - upskilling the County through education to generate strength in the local economy. Fairer - Fairer pay for the actual 'workers' of the council, those who are working on the ground to deliver. Fairer access to council homes giving employed people a chance rather than council homes being prioritised to non working which would generate income opposed to robbing Peter to pay Paul via the benefits system.  Greener - less animal waste disposal from farms into our watercourses. Homeworking wherever possible, no need to travel for a meeting just to be in a room. Embrace virtual working and reduce travel.

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Stronger - upskilling the County through education to generate strength in the local economy. Fairer - Fairer pay for the actual 'workers' of the council, those who are working on the ground to deliver. Fairer access to council homes giving employed people a chance rather than council homes being prioritised to non working which would generate income opposed to robbing Peter to pay Paul via the benefits system.  Greener - less animal waste disposal from farms into our watercourses. Homeworking wherever possible, no need to travel for a meeting just to be in a room. Embrace virtual working and reduce travel.

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Education in schools and colleges to reflect the technologies of today which will support a greener way of life. Traditional trades and skills in apprenticeships for example are not going to enable the skills required to deliver new technologies such a heat pumps, solar, ev charging and so on. Upskill our young and offer ongoing learning for those already in the trades. 

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Education in schools and colleges to reflect the technologies of today which will support a greener way of life. Traditional trades and skills in apprenticeships for example are not going to enable the skills required to deliver new technologies such a heat pumps, solar, ev charging and so on. Upskill our young and offer ongoing learning for those already in the trades. 

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Employees of the council should, in all 'fairness' be supported to undertake the roles they are employed to do based on their skills and experience without the interference of politicians. If politicians wish to do the jobs of the employees, they why not apply for the role, subject to skills and experience. Supporting employees in their roles will enable a 'stronger' Powys.

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Employees of the council should, in all 'fairness' be supported to undertake the roles they are employed to do based on their skills and experience without the interference of politicians. If politicians wish to do the jobs of the employees, they why not apply for the role, subject to skills and experience. Supporting employees in their roles will enable a 'stronger' Powys.

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These are probably still not quite competitive with gas boilers, but as much of the county is on oil and this is at near record prices, i suspect a targeted programme of heat pump installation into rural homes would help make their lives better, be fairer on the urban/rural poverty balance and be greener and make the county 'stronger' in that these residents would then have more money to spend in the local powys economy rather than importing oil from abroad.

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There needs to be a long term strategy for Powys to transition away from just primary industries and low paid low skilled tourism and retail towards more advanced manufacturing high tech well paid jobs. Its not that these sectors are not important but they dont drive the economy in the same way by creating productivity improvements and technology advances. Without the public sector Powys would have nothing! No graduate level employment or skilled work really. Needs more factories, more wind farms, more biosciences and R&D, pharma, IT, engineering, tech jobs to attract and retain well paid jobs

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Why not a P&R site for Newtown, maybe Brecon as its quite congested in town cetnre, and something needs to be done about the one way system in Welshpool its a complete faff to drive round and you end up doing miles extra which is not green!

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To encourage more vibrate towns at night and discourage drink driving provide integrated late night public transport

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A technical engineering solution is needed for wye catchment or you will never be able to build more homes which is not fair on people in urgent  need of housing . Im sure seewage treatment works could resolve this with the right kit?

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Take a leaf out of how city mayors in Manchester and London create low cost travel with digital passes and a seemless intregated transport system

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Nhs budgets should merge into pcc social care to work as one for best outcomes at lowest cost, generally cheaper to help these people via voluntary sector or private care homes not public hospitals

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Living in an old council house and paying the same rent as someone across the road in a brand new one which costs less to run and has new facilities does not seem very fair to me! Buy anything new (bar antiques for example) and it costs more, second hand is always cheaper, same should apply to new councils' homes and rent. Even private rented homes, the more dated the interior for example, the cheaper the rent tends to be.

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Living in an old council house and paying the same rent as someone across the road in a brand new one which costs less to run and has new facilities does not seem very fair to me! Buy anything new (bar antiques for example) and it costs more, second hand is always cheaper, same should apply to new councils' homes and rent. Even private rented homes, the more dated the interior for example, the cheaper the rent tends to be.

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Fairer -A 4.67 percent increase in pay for councilors from March next year could see the leader of the Council take home 59k with expenses on top of this.  Compared to low paid care workers looking after the elderly for example and struggling to cover the cost of fuel to run their vehicle to get from house to house and those working in homelessness and with the counties most vulnerable. Is this fair?

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Fairer -A 4.67 percent increase in pay for councilors from March next year could see the leader of the Council take home 59k with expenses on top of this.  Compared to low paid care workers looking after the elderly for example and struggling to cover the cost of fuel to run their vehicle to get from house to house and those working in homelessness and with the counties most vulnerable. Is this fair?

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The wi could harvest unwanted clothing and cut them up to make reusable shopping bags. Scaled up this could help save money for all and reduce waste

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Council Housing should be preserved for welsh, not scousers, syrians and Ukrainians

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Powys could fix its own pot holes with rubble from the tip and do much more to incorporate more waste into its highways e.g. compost and wood chippings on flower beds, plastic into road bitumen

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I think it was a backwards step to close down cae post a wonderful charity who employed disabled people to sort our recycling. Now i recycle everything i can apart from plastic film its the biggest thing in the bin so powys should do more to bring back cae post

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Save money and feed kids healthier plant based options. One days a week where the menu is 100% meat and dairy free would save tonnes of carbon and taxpayers money.

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We are being held to ransom by Putin and the disaster of the pounds decline since Brexit, there is a climate emergency and the quickest cheapest way to sort this is to erect huge giant wind turbines on the uplands which we have absolutely loads of in Powys! I appreciate some special areas like the BBNP might be 'sacrosanct' but really we need to try to push alot more areas of Powys to embrace wind farms. The Council can push this forwards through the planning policy system but also through strategic investments and supplying its own land e.g. farm small holdings to host such infrastructure.

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a huge drive on energy-saving for all is needed now more than anything. More advice and support and practical low cost no cost things we can all do at home like LED light-bulbs, home-made radiator panels from recycled tin foil, volunteers knitting blankets and woolen hats for OAPs, The council could set up a project for mass distribution of microwaves, air friers and slow cookers (second hand shops are full of them!) to people at the food banks - have a tin of soup and a gadget to save energy on cooking, give away those laundry balls and things which save on power at the home, people need to keep warm and it will make the economy (stronger) the finances (fairer) and the climate (greener) its a win, win, win on everything before you spend billions on solar panels spend a few thousands on employing some outreach experts to go door to door with a goody bag of energy saving products and a warm flask of soup

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Anti Social Behaviour on Council estates 

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Anti Social Behaviour on Council estates 

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there should be regular estate walkabouts with police and council teams working together more visible patrols, more enforcement but also rooting out the cause of the problems socially and sign posting them to appropriate support services e.g. drug and alchohol misuse is the root cause of 90% of this

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Powys has savagely offloaded all of its public toilets in the austerity era. Some are better run cleaner etc now parish councils operate them but some are really getting run down and unpleasant. I have a disabled child aged 10 in nappies i have to lie him down on the floor in a public lavatory to change him and its really not pleasant or fair

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Long term strategic planning and investment in things which we need today and might help future proof against e.g. climate hazards. Spend to save on more robust infrastructure in highways which then lasts longer and reduces your running costs etc. Like wise better bin collections, cleaner buses and parks will be popular and benefit everyone immediately, whether or not you believe climate change is real or not

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Large buses are not appropriate in rural mid wales it should be more demand responsive transport, more light vans and people carriers and where buses are used they should be run on compressed biomethane sourced from the counties food recycling and sewage plants or all electric solar powered rick shaws in town centres

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Some of our towns are turning into rubbish dumps especially repeatedly dog poo needs a broad strategy of education, enforcement and more bins and cleaners armed with proper pressure washers

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There are always kids running around llandod late into the night under 16. I was never allowed out past 9 at that age and I certainly didn't behave that badly. They loiter, swear, throw rubbish everywhere, in some cases behave aggressively. There should be a 9pm curfew and parents should be fined if they let their children out after this, its neglect.
Also, the buses after school, if the schools are going to send children home on public transport a teacher or a parent volunteer should accompany them to ensure they behave. Some daysbits like Lord of the flies on the buses and the poor drivers and adult passengers have to endure a very stressful journey.

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You're harping on about solar panels and electric cars, but surely an easy way to achieve a greener county is with a more extensive public transport system, which is cheaper and runs later into the evening. It should also have an app with real time updates, what we have now with trawscymru is not live updated it's just a fancy timetable app and doesn't let you know if a bus is cancelled or delayed, it simply drops off the list when it's due time passes. We also need more trains which go to more places, in the 90s and 00s you could get to most places in Wales and the Midlands easily. Hereford in about half an hour and abergavenny, now it takes 3 hours, which is longer than if you drove! Not to mention this makes it exceedingly difficult for disabled people to get to hospital appointments if they don't drive. You can't get an ambulance and the community cars are overrun with requests.
I have been banging this drum with local councillors (lib dem and independent) for a few years and nothing is being actioned. Cycle lanes are a nice idea but are impractical for many. I'm disabled and can't drive because of it. Getting to and from work in the next town is difficult and I can't move to the town because of A. There's no housing and B. I couldn't afford it at the moment either.

Also, speaking of housing crises, there have been two houses on my street stuck empty in probate for the last year. Surely if a house is going to be sitting vacant for a long period there could be legislation put in place to rent these out in the short term to people without accommodation? These houses fall into disrepair when left vacant for long periods.

And lastly, more needs to be done around child protection. We have neighbours that are alcoholics and let their disabled children wonder around the house naked with the curtains open and bang on the windows all night because they've drunk themselves unconscious. I've reported it to Powys and nothing has been done. Those two boys are non verbal and cannot speak for themselves, plus there are other small children on the road who can see these boys through the window in this state of undress. Your social services needs a shake up!

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Curfew all 16yr and younger after 8pm

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Offer affordable grants for households to install solar panels
Make it compulsory through planning that all south facing buildings have solar

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Stop building on green land that is used by many
Only to build houses for people with no where to go

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Keep it real: 1) Powys is not set up for use of electric cars, the county is too vast and the vehicles themselves are too expensive. 2) One size does not fit all in Wales and what the Senedd propose in their climate change agenda with ref to vehicles, new homes and living practices are not going to be suitable or sustainable for all areas of Wales. Rural and urban areas are very different. 3)Employment is losing focus and needs to be encouraged to reduce the numbers on benefits and claiming council tax which destabilizes the economy. 4) The Council should have properties which working people on low incomes can buy. reward working people. 4) Plant trees but don't sweat it, it is not going to prevent homelessness for example #priorities 

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Keep it real: 1) Powys is not set up for use of electric cars, the county is too vast and the vehicles themselves are too expensive. 2) One size does not fit all in Wales and what the Senedd propose in their climate change agenda with ref to vehicles, new homes and living practices are not going to be suitable or sustainable for all areas of Wales. Rural and urban areas are very different. 3)Employment is losing focus and needs to be encouraged to reduce the numbers on benefits and claiming council tax which destabilizes the economy. 4) The Council should have properties which working people on low incomes can buy. reward working people. 4) Plant trees but don't sweat it, it is not going to prevent homelessness for example #priorities 

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Fairer - Only tenants who look after their homes as well as have no rental debt should have rent free weeks. The policy currently is only those who are up to date on their rent. That does not account for those who do not look after their home or those, whose who are causing issues on the housing estates and those who are involved in criminal activity. There seems to be some tenants whose poor behavior in council homes goes 'unnoticed' and is left without the council taking action.  

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Fairer - Only tenants who look after their homes as well as have no rental debt should have rent free weeks. The policy currently is only those who are up to date on their rent. That does not account for those who do not look after their home or those, whose who are causing issues on the housing estates and those who are involved in criminal activity. There seems to be some tenants whose poor behavior in council homes goes 'unnoticed' and is left without the council taking action.  

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Council homes should be allocated to the most in need who are unable to afford mortgages and large deposits in the PRS. Robust financial and background checks should be undertaken as part of the application process.

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Council homes should be allocated to the most in need who are unable to afford mortgages and large deposits in the PRS. Robust financial and background checks should be undertaken as part of the application process.

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Solar PV - Not every roof configuration is ideally placed for maximum solar power generation, therefore is not going to give the benefit. Also, retrofitting on solar PV to homes which do not have the fabric to support the gains is counter productive. These systems are weather dependent although solar energy can still be collected during cloudy and rainy days with less sunlight, the efficiency of the solar system drops. systems are expensive to install and it is unlikely that the low rental income Powys has from tenants would recover additional technologies such as this. There is more to the 'climate emergency' and fuel poverty than solar PV. 

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Solar PV - Not every roof configuration is ideally placed for maximum solar power generation, therefore is not going to give the benefit. Also, retrofitting on solar PV to homes which do not have the fabric to support the gains is counter productive. These systems are weather dependent although solar energy can still be collected during cloudy and rainy days with less sunlight, the efficiency of the solar system drops. systems are expensive to install and it is unlikely that the low rental income Powys has from tenants would recover additional technologies such as this. There is more to the 'climate emergency' and fuel poverty than solar PV. 