A FOOTPATH in part of Ammanford will be closed for around six months.

Carmarthenshire County Council has revealed – via a public notice in the August 23 edition of the South Wales Guardian – that a large part of the footpath number 34/27 in Tycroes, Ammanford, will be closed for around six months to allow for works on the construction of a solar farm on land near the path has been completed.

The part of the footpath that will be closed is:

  • From a point where it dissects a farm track which extends from Pontardulais Road in a general southerly direction and located 125 metres east of Tycroes Business Park, Ammanford, for a distance of 1,034 metres in a south-easterly direction to the Class III which leads to Lanedi at its southern extremity.

The footpath will be closed from September 11 for six months or until the work is completed.

There will be an alternative route which is:

  • From a point north of the closure, proceed in a south-easterly direction along a permissive route which will be bounded by a fence, the initial section being a strip of land located on the south side of a section of the closed footpath before turning in an easterly and then south-westerly direction along the boundary of a triangular field enclosure.
  • The route then continues in a south-easterly and then south-westerly direction skirting the next field boundary before returning to a point adjacent to the eastern side of the closed footpath. From this point the alternative route will run parallel to the remainder of the closed section of the definitive route to its junction with the Class III road which leads to Llanedi at its southern extremity.

During the closure, there will be no access to the footpath for anyone.