What is "trebanos"

Trebanos is a village in the Swansea Valley, Wales. It forms, together with Craig Trebanos and a part of Pontardawe, the Trebanos electoral ward of Neath Port Talbot county borough.

Controversy and opposition concerning the South Wales Gas Pipeline passing through the village led to media attention for the village and a protest camp in 2006 and 2007.

Trebanos is an electoral ward of Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales, part of the Pontardawe community.

Trebanos includes some or all of the following areas: Trebanos, Craig Trebanos and Pontardawe, in the parliamentary constituency of Neath. Trebanos is bounded by the wards of Pontardawe to the north and east; Alltwen to the southeast; and Clydach of Swansea to the south and west. Trebanos includes open moorland and has a developed strip in the centre of the ward which lies in the Swansea Valley.

In the 2012 local council elections, the electorate turnout was 47.50%. The results were:

|Candidate

|Party

|Votes

|Status

|Rebeca Lewis

Plaid Cymru

302

Plaid Cymru gain

|Andrea Davies

Labour

166

|John Jones

Independent

53