MACHYNLLETH town councillors will write to the Welsh Government’s new Infrastructure Secretary to seek assurances that the new £24m Dyfi Bridge will be completed after the shock Brexit result.

Councillors raised concern that uncertainty over the UK’s decision to withdraw from the European Union, and a minority Labour administration now running the Assembly with a new team of ministers, could mean that the promised and long-awaited new bridge could be put on the backburner.

Councillors agreed at a meeting on Monday to write to the new Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Infrastructure, Ken Skates AM.

Cllr Michael Williams said: “We must write to the minister to confirm the government’s support for the scheme. We need to know that this vital project is still in place and will still go ahead.”

Mr Skates took over from Edwina Hart following the Assembly elections in May this year after First Minister Carwyn Jones selected a new Cabinet.

Ms Hart, the former Transport Minister, announced proposed plans for the new £24m Dyfi Bridge in 2015.

The Welsh Government has said it remains committed to the scheme that will “improve capacity and resilience on the A487” and “improve safety and journey times on the road” which is an “important link between north and south Wales.”

The scheme, consisting of a new viaduct which will cross the River Dyfi upstream of the existing bridge near Machynlleth is due to be open by 2019, with work supposed to be starting late this year.

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