Both I and Bryncoch South councillor Tony Wyn Jones have expressed our concern to the council about the prolonged closure of the access from the Tennant canal footpath to Neath town centre via Bridge Street. Although the old bridge is actually situated in Bryncoch South, many residents of Cadoxton like to walk into Neath via the canal.

We have now been told that work to repair the bridge structure, the damage to which by hooligans was the cause of the closure, will be carried out.

Contrary to my understanding, and no doubt that of many residents, the bridge is neither a registered right of way nor owned by the council. It is part of trunk road land and managed by the South Wales Trunk Road Agency, who delegate the maintenance under contract to Neath Port Talbot CBC. A complication is that it is a listed structure, and CADW has to approve work carried out on it.

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