AN ABERAERON town councillor has branded a public consultation document over the future of a household waste site near Llanarth as “appalling”.

Ceredigion County Council is seeking the public’s views over the use and future of the Rhydeinon household waste site.

But Cllr Mair Harrison claimed questions posed in the document were irrelevant and inappropriate and failed to address the issue at hand.

“They seemed more to do with my sexuality or religion rather than the future of Rhydeinon,” she told colleagues.

“To send something like that out is absolutely shocking.

“Someone told me they’d have been embarrassed if their 10-year-old kid had come out with something like that – this has to be the most appalling public consultation document ever.”

Cllr Elizabeth Evans – who recently conducted a survey on Facebook about the Rhydeinon site and received more than 700 responses from users - argued that while the document was ‘not great’ the most important thing was to complete and return it.

“Next week I am being taken on a tour of all four Ceredigion waste sites to see what difficulties are involved,” she added.

Cllr Evans described the local authority’s expectation that locals would use their cars to drive to alternative waste sites at Aberystwyth, Lampeter or Cardigan as “unrealistic”.

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