Making our communities and environment, healthy, safe and prosperous
Continue regeneration plans to safeguard and support over 1,400 businesses. In the shorter term we will provide employment support to some 3,000 people, helping a further 850 into full-time employment. Major investment and developments will help the local economy recover post-COVID.
In Llanelli we will deliver several retail sites in the town centre, which have already had planning permission. We will maximise the community benefits arising from the multi-million-pound Pentre Awel scheme at Llanelli, the first development of this size and scope in Wales, which will create 1,800 well-paid jobs.
We will support and encourage people to lead active and healthy lives, ensure supply chain opportunities for local businesses, and local recruitment.
In Carmarthen, following its purchase by the County Council, work will soon start on transforming the former Debenhams building into a community hub incorporating health, leisure, education, and cultural activities together with public sector, business and tourist information and advice services. Small and independent business will be encouraged to develop, grow, and expand in the town centre, supporting hospitality facilities and enhancing the evening economy.
The Masterplan for Ammanford will be actioned to bring new life back to a town which has suffered a gradual and distressing decline since the local coalmines closed. Disjointed areas of the town centre will be unified through better-quality highway design, pedestrian links, and the redesign of key open spaces. The weekly market will be grown to include a greater number of stalls. Undertake a feasibility study for a leisure centre in the centre of the town.
Continue to lobby Welsh Government to reopen the Amman Valley railway line to passengers as part of the Swansea Bay Metro.
Ten Towns - Continue to develop plans for our 10 rural towns and surrounding areas: Llandeilo, Llandovery, Llanybydder, Newcastle Emlyn, Cross Hands, Cwmaman, Kidwelly, Laugharne, St Clears and Whitland. These plans aim to secure economic, cultural, social, and environmental sustainability.
Work with partners to create a second phase of ARFOR in order to maximise the economic benefits to Carmarthenshire.
Continue to submit robust bids in order to attract funding across the county, including UK Shared Prosperity Fund and the Levelling Up Fund, replacing former EU sources of funding.
Continue to attract inward investment where high levels of productivity, competitiveness and wage can be achieved.
We will promote the ‘Think Carmarthenshire First’ approach widely across the Authority, encouraging officers to seek quotations from local suppliers. We will continue to support local businesses to bid for work by targeting specific tendering opportunities across the county and promoting our forward work programme in advance.
Do everything we can to increase our local procurement spend and upscale above the current 53%.
