Have your say - What is important to you!
Community Place Plan Review
This survey is now CLOSED and any responses may not be considered.
You will see on here regular updates and surveys in relation to the council undertaking a review of the Place Plan. Thank you to those who did respond to our first Survey back in July 2021. We now would like to hear from you again with the pro’s and con’s of our village.
This phase is open until 31st December 2021. A leaflet will be delivered to all homes with these questions which you can complete and return, however, the quickest and easiest way to respond is by clicking the link below.
This is again your chance to have your say on your village!!
Community Survey - July 2021
This survey is now closed 23.08.2021. In the coming months the community council will be distributing a Community Questionnaire where you will have the opportunity to provide valuable feedback to the council in order to revise the existing Place Plan.
Penyffordd Community Council is looking to update the Community Place Plan and we would like to know what are the main issues/priorities of our residents. This engagement with community is key to building on the existing Plan whilst looking to the future needs of the Penyffordd, Penymynydd and Dobshill.
This Plan contains the Strategic Aims and Objectives for the Community based on the main issues the Villages face relating to the subjects of Housing, Community Facilities, Transportation, Sports & Green Space, Social, Historic, Environment and Economic Development. Each Aim has a corresponding set of Development Objectives which provide more specific and measurable actions to achieve these Aims.
To develop the shared aims and joint-working practices between Partners, Flintshire Council and the Community Council and key Stakeholders that will create an environment whereby communities have the ability to input into future developments in the Villages, to ultimately empower them to enable the voice of the residents to be heard.
This is the first stage of the review which will help the council to assess the main issues/priorities of our residents in order to produce the full Community Questionnaire which is hoped to be launched later this year.
You can either complete the online survey by clicking on the button below or alternatively there will be paper surveys available from local participating businesses.
The closing date of this survey will be Saturday 31st July 2021.
You can view the current plan here: Penyffordd Community Development Plan
What’s Happening
Councillors David Walker, Roy Wakelam and Pat Ransome with Alan Wight, decorating the Millennium clock for the 75th Anniversary of VE Day commemorations.
NEWS
We regularly post articles, news or messages from Councillors on our news feed. These are excepts of the most recent updates:
Meetings and Agendas
The Council formally meet once a month, on the second Wednesday. There is no meeting in August. Meetings are usually held at the War Memorial Institute committee room unless otherwise notified. The agenda is published 5 days in advance of the meeting. The public are welcome to attend meetings to observe and there is an allocated time for public questions. The agenda and minutes from past meetings can be viewed online:
You can view the minutes from all past meetings online here:
Social Media
You can follow what’s happening in Penyffordd on social media through the following platforms. Comments and shares on social media do not represent the official council position and are intended to engage and inform residents.
The gallery of images shown are the most recent images from the @lovepenyffordd Instagram account.
Councillors post regularly on Facebook (search Facebook.com/penyffordd), Twitter (@lovepenyffordd) and Instagram (@lovepenyffordd).
YouTube home screen
YouTube
You can now find Penyffordd on YouTube. We have our own YouTube channel to share videos from the community, including local businesses, thanks to local video company Jigsaw Creative.
Introducing Penyfford
Image from the famous annual Penyffordd bonfire
About Pen-y-ffordd
Pen-y-ffordd is an active village community, just over the border from England, where the land rises into Wales. The Community Council represents the connected villages of Pen-y-ffordd and Penymynydd and neighbouring Dobshill. The electoral ward takes in a number of other rural homes in Bannel, the Rhyd and Lower Mountain.
Pen-y-ffordd Cyngor Cymyned. Mae'n ddrwg gennaf, ond nid oes gennym fersiwn Gymraeg o'r wefan hon ar hyn o bryd.
What’s in a name?
Pen-y-ffordd means ‘at the end of the road’
Penymynydd means ‘at the top of the hill’
Electorate
3,311
Population
Penyffordd / Penymynydd:
3,554
Dobshill:
320
2011 Census
Penyffordd War Memorial Institute
A border village surrounded by millennia of history
History
Hawarden Road Penyffordd, at the clock. Around 100 years ago
Pen-y-ffordd is crossed by a Roman road and has castles on two sides. It is originally a farming community with the inns and roads crossed by drovers heading to and from the Welsh hills. Our village has been crossed by Romans, Celts, Civil War armies, Owain Glyndwr's forces, Edward I's army and who knows who else!
There are several large houses in the area including the Jacobean mansion Plan Coch and Gladstone's home at Hawarden Castle as well as a number of homes of the wealthy from the Industrial Age.
Penyffordd Fete programmes from the 1950’s
Coal mining was prevalent in Padeswood and Bannel but Penyffordd and neighbouring Buckley grew from brick making and many of the settlers were from the potteries.
The factory at Airbus (formerly Vickers and British Aerospace) has been a major employer.
There were two railway lines, the existing one and the other passed through the village and closed in 1962.
Today we enjoy historical buildings at St John's Church, the Methodist Church, Youth Club (old school building), the train station, War Memorial Institute and numerous farms and houses.
To read more of the history of Pen-y-ffordd and Penymynydd we have a dedicated history page.