Heritage Management
Heritage advice to UAs and AONBs
The Glamorgan-Gwent Trust covers twelve local authorities -
- Blaenau Gwent
- Bridgend
- Caerphilly
- Cardiff
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Monmouthshire
- Neath Port Talbot
- Newport
- Rhondda Cynon Taf,
- Swansea
- Torfaen
- The Vale of Glamorgan
as well as part of a National Park - the Brecon Beacons, and two Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty - Gower and the Welsh side of the Wye Valley.
As the councils' archaeological advisor, the Trust provides information and advice where requested, not only where individual sites and monuments are involved but also in developing policies to care for the historic environment. We have also been involved in helping the Wye Valley AONB with its application to the Heritage Lottery Fund for the 'Overlooking the Wye' project, and in the AONBs' Golden Jubilee Conference hosted by Gower in 2006.
Work for local authorities carried out over the past couple of years has included providing information about sites and monuments on the commons of Caerphilly County Borough Council, helping Swansea City Council to safeguard important copper-smelting and coal-mining sites during rhododendron clearance in the Clyne Valley, and advising Torfaen County Borough Council on how to look after a tramroad incline at Abersychan.