THREE jobs are be lost at Ceredigion council after a shake-up of the road management scheme.

The jobs will be lost after the Welsh Government agreed to transfer some administrative functions back to the North and Mid Wales Trunk Road Agency.

Ceredigion council Cabinet members heard at a meeting last week that the three posts could be abs­orbed into NMWTRA after Welsh Government officials backed a business case for the future of the agency amid doubts that it was providing value for money.

Three NMWTRA officers are alr­eady based in Ceredigion, and Cabinet members were hopeful the staff lost to Ceredigion council would ret­ain their jobs.

Transport Cabinet member Alun Williams told members the business case was for the continued existence in effect of NMWTRA.

A Cabinet report into the changes said: “Ceredigion County Council provides a number of the management and highway maintenance functions to the NMWTRA as a partner authority under a service level agreement. Welsh Government officials have been reviewing the business case put forward by NMWTRA for the provision of trunk road management functions and associated delivery mechanisms throughout mid and north Wales.