Powys County Council has pledged to revisit the speed limit through a village between Brecon and Ystradgynlais following a petition from residents.

At a council meeting on Thursday, July 10, residents from Crai presented a petition signed by 566 people calling for the speed limit on the A4067 to be reduced from 60mph to 30mph.

Residents are also calling for speed cameras to be installed along the stretch of road that passes through the village, including near the farms of Beiligwern and Nantmadog.

The petition – the first of its kind to be formally presented at a Powys council meeting – was delivered by resident Vaughn Myfanwy Mudie.

Mrs Mudie said: “We gathered over 500 signatures; this is not a new campaign but it’s a hard fought one”

She said that two motorbikes going through the village had recently been clocked at 91mph and that these “speeds were not unusual.”

Mrs Mudie said: “The background to this is that the majority of cars are doing 60mph plus through our village.

“There have been four road traffic accidents in the last 10 months, three not serious but damaging property including the council’s flashing lights.

“The fourth (accident) on Easter weekend was a motorbike hitting the other set of flashing lights and required an air ambulance and a road closure for four hours.

“On behalf of the people who signed the petition, I ask you to use common sense and discretion and respond to our request to help us to stay safe.”

Cabinet member for highways, transport and recycling Cllr Jackie Charlton (Liberal Democrat) asked councillors to back a move for the council’s highways officials to “have another look” at the speed limit and come up “with long-term solutions,” that would go in front of a future cabinet meeting for a decision.

Chief officer for place, Matt Perry said that everyone agrees that the speed limit should be lowered.

On installing cameras, Mr Perry explained that the council needed “support from the Police and GoSafe” to deal with speeding issues.

He added that the financial implications of this decision needed to be “weighed up.”

Mr Perry said: “I appreciate this isn’t all that you wanted, but I am in favour of working with you and getting the speeding reduced as quickly as possible.”

Local county councillor Edwin Roderick (Powys Independents- Maescar and Llywel) said: “We are very passionate in Crai about this - we’ve had about two years of discussion.”

He said that an agreement in principle to lower the limit to 50mph had not materialised.

Finance portfolio holder Cllr David Thomas (Labour), who represents the Tawe Uchaf ward near Ystradgynlais, said he regularly uses the stretch of road when travelling to Llandrindod Wells.

Cllr Thomas said: “My son and his young family lived on a property in Crai.

“When my granddaughters were very young, they could not be let out of the front of the house because it was unsafe.”

He added if you travel “further down the valley towards Swansea,” you have several villages and hamlets that had 30mph speed limits.

These were all reduced to 20mph when the Welsh Government urban speed limit changes came into force in September 2023.

“I remember thinking that it makes no sense that Crai had not been reviewed and certainly a 30mph should be the minimum,” said Cllr Thomas.

The petition was unanimously backed by councillors.