Don’t Go Chasing Waterfalls?: The Controversial Development Planned for a Cascade-Blessed Welsh Beauty Spot – Article for the Telegraph

Wales’ Bannau Brycheiniog – formerly Brecon Beacons – National Park is a place of bald, broad rocky summits, yellow moors… and some of the UK’s finest waterfalls. In and around Pontneddfechan on the southern edge of the park, dramatic cascade after dramatic cascade plunges through the ancient Celtic rainforest fringing the moorland, rightly giving the area its nickname of ‘Waterfall Country’. Yet a huge £7 million tourist development is set to bring the region’s waterfalls further under the visitor spotlight. And not everyone is happy about it… 

The Controversial Plans to Turn a Tiny Welsh Village into a £7m Tourist Attraction

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Luke Waterson is a Wales-based adventure and sustainable travel writer and novelist, with equal enthusiasm for hiking in wildernesses, ancient history, country pubs, historic fiction and brewing beer - either solo or with his family

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