National Trust Mismanagement Of Pont ar Daf Car Park, Pen y Fan
Wales Outdoors have been campaigning for fifteen years to see the awful parking issues at the gateway to the Brecon Beacons National Park resolved.
The issues have not been resolved. This is some of the history of the campaign:
Pont ar Daf Car Park - Pen y Fan
The Wales Outdoors owner, Andy Lamb, has long campaigned for improvements to the facilities and design of Pont ar Daf Car Park. His visit there on 1st April 2018 led him to write to the National Trust in Brecon for a response to what he sees as mismanagement and abrogation of duty at this popular start point for Pen y Fan.
Pen y Fan Parking - The Final Word
THE MONDAY MOAN - A once a week spot for us to moan about the stuff that perhaps we should all be moaning about that little bit more... This year I've spoken to all of the interested parties in the management of the Pen y Fan car parks and the A470 at Storey Arms. And... I give up. There is no desire from those with authority to effect positive change a…
Just a few weeks ago Wales Outdoors delivered a sunset on Pen y Fan walk. The new car park was busy and there was a long queue for the ONE toilet available to users of the parking, when, overnight, just ten years ago, there were both male and female loos, purpose built, in the only building on-site and open 24 hours a day. We were told by a client, that at 6pm, an hour after National Trust staff had left the location, the toilet was ‘disgusting’.
They’ve spent a fortune and now expect users to pay for parking, £7.50 per car, a fee that Wales Outdoors will never pay, and so now have not free and adequate facilities but an expensive and inadequate service.
