ALMOST £1.5 million of grant funding from Welsh Government to deliver highways and transportation improvement schemes is heading to Ceredigion in 2016/17.

Local authorities were invited to apply for grant funding from the Welsh Government’s Local Transport Fund and Safe Routes in Communities Scheme, and Ceredigion County Council was successful in several of its grant applications.

The final section of improvements for the A486 Post Bach to Synod Inn scheme along the Ceredigion link road will receive £1.077 million of this funding.

The county council will also provide £325,000 in match funding for this scheme.

Residents in Cardigan will benefit from £109,575 for active travel improvements within the town centre, a scheme which is aimed at providing 20mph traffic calming measures and improved footways in the vicinity of Cardigan Primary School.

The council says these measures will encourage increased active travel journeys to school and the funding will include new scooter and cycle shelters at the school. The county council will provide £6,675 in match funding, in addition to a £5,000 contribution by Cardigan Town Council.

Funding has also been received for work to make routes safer in local communities: the second phase of the Rhydypennau Primary School footway scheme will receive £104,400 and match funding of £11,600 from the county council.

New footway improvements and 20mph traffic-calming measures at Ysgol Bro Pedr, Lampeter, will benefit from £116,250, including £9,500 in match-funding from the county council and an £8,000 contribution from Lampeter Town Council.

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