Litchard is a village and residential district north of

Bridgend Bridgend (; cy, Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr or just , meaning "the end of the bridge on the Ogmore") is a town in Bridgend County Borough in Wales, west of Cardiff and east of Swansea. The town is named after the medieval bridge over the River Og ...

, Wales. It is also an electoral ward in the

Coity Higher Coity Higher is a community in Bridgend County Borough, south Wales. It contains the north western suburbs of Bridgend which includes the villages of Litchard and Coity. The southern boundary of the community adjoins the community of Brackla, wh ...

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, as well as a former ward to Bridgend County Borough Council.

Description

The village of

Coity Coity is a village in Bridgend County Borough, south Wales, part of Bridgend town urban area. Coity is part of the community of Coity Higher and is notable for being home to Coity Castle, one of the best preserved castles in Glamorgan. Other b ...

lies to the east, Pendre to the south,

Wildmill Wildmill or Wild Mill is a district in the town of Bridgend, south Wales. The initial housing estate was built in the late 1960s, using the Radburn design. The area is served by Wildmill railway station. Wildmill has often been associated wi ...

and the

River Ogmore The River Ogmore ( cy, Afon Ogwr) is a river in South Wales that is popular with anglers. It runs generally from north to south from the Ogmore Vale and Gilfach Goch, past Bridgend and Ogmore. The River Ogmore rises at Craig Ogwr (527 m) in the ...

to the west. Litchard is described as being in top 10% of most privileged areas of Wales, according to the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation, with many of its houses privately owned. According to the 2011 UK Census, the population of the Litchard ward was 2,147. The village has playing fields, a primary school and a mission church.

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is located at the bottom of Litchard Terrace.

Electoral ward

Mid Glamorgan County Council

Litchard was created as a ward to

Mid Glamorgan County Council Mid Glamorgan County Council () was the upper-tier authority for the Welsh county of Mid Glamorgan between its creation in 1974 and its abolition in 1996. History Local government in England and Wales was reorganised in 1974 under the Local Govern ...

, by ''The County of Mid Glamorgan (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1988'', taking effect from the 1989 elections. It elected a Labour county councillor at the 1989 and 1993 elections.

Bridgend County Borough Council

Litchard subsequently became an electoral ward to Bridgend County Borough Council, effective from the

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. A Labour councillor was elected in 1999. In 2004

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, Don Brett, was elected. He left the Conservatives and was elected as an Independent in 2008. In 2012 the ward returned to Labour. Following a 2019 local government boundary review, the wards of Coity, Litchard and Pendre were combined to form a Coity Higher ward, effective from the 2022 local elections. The Coity Higher ward elects three county borough councillors.

Coity Higher Community Council

Coity Higher elects a community council and Litchard is one of the three community wards to Coity Higher Community Council. In 2022 the community council increased in size but, to balance the representation between the three wards, the number of councillors elected from Litchard was reduced from five, to four.

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