We are a small group of Aberystwyth town councillors posting information that we hope is useful to people in the town. We want to keep our residents, students and visitors informed about what we do for them. We also want to let everybody know what is happening in the town, so it won’t all be local politics. If you are in our town, whoever you are, we care about you too!
Remember, we are volunteers who are not paid for our time in meetings or representing you, which takes up many hours of our spare time. We only do this because we love our town. The Town Council does have a small number of hard-working, paid staff. Please let us be clear that this site is not published or maintained by the Town Council or its staff but by a small group of individual councillors. The views expressed are those of the individual authors who post here.
Another thing we don’t intend to do here is to use this site for scoring party political points or electioneering. There are plenty of other places and opportunities for that. We believe in positive and constructive engagement with residents and with each other wherever we can, together with others from any progressive parties that look out for ordinary people.
This site is for letting you know what is happening in the town. We will try to be as factual as we can, although we can’t help giving you our opinions as we see things. You can hold us to account for it!
We are preparing some FAQs (forthcoming) for basic information about what we do – and what we don’t do – and remember that we are not the County Council! The Town Council doesn’t empty your bins and it doesn’t impose parking fees on you, for instance. It doesn’t repair the roads or run the schools or care homes. The County Council runs those big services. However, there is a great deal that we do for you, so we think it’s your right to know what. We intend to help inform the public about what the Town Council does and what its responsibilities are (pages forthcoming). In the meantime please check the Town Council’s web site.
While we are developing this site, please feel free to email us, the Town Council, or indeed any of your town councillors, if you have any questions about what we do or about specific issues. We have been elected to do our best to help you on local issues where we can.
The Welsh version of this web site is https://llaisaber.cymru
See the About Us page for more details.