English: I have to beat that. [ Laughter. ] Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. How do you beat that? This week marks another anniversary - the seventieth anniversary of my home town, the designation of Cwmbran as a new town, the first and only mark one new town to be built in Wales under the New Towns Act 1946. Growing up in the 1980s in the Llanyrafon area of the town, on the western edge of the Monmouth constituency, I was very aware that the place I called home was somehow different and became fascinated by the vision of a brighter future that had inspired the postwar urban planners. That vision had itself grown out the ideas of Ebenezer Howard, the founder of the Victorian garden city movement and author of To-morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform. It espoused new communities, benefiting from clean air, open space and good-quality housing, all in short supply in postwar Britain. In Cwmbran, it also included the innovation of a fully pedestrianised town centre, with free parking, which would eventually, upon the winding up of Cwmbran Development Corporation, become the first privately owned town centre in the UK. Originally envisaged as a community of 35,000 people, Cwmbran has actually grown to nearer 50,000 people. As a result of this expansion, there are now many more people who have made the new town their home. It has been 70 years since the then Minister of Town and Country Planning, Lewis Silkin, said to the chair of the committee of the Cabinet, Herbert Morrison: 'I think we can build a very good new town here'. Many would say that history has proved him right. Happy birthday, Cwmbran.
Welsh: Mae'n rhaid i mi guro hynny. [ Chwerthin. ] Diolch, Ddirprwy Lywydd. Sut y mae rhywun yn curo hynny? Mae'r wythnos hon yn nodi pen-blwydd arall - sef pen-blwydd fy nhref enedigol yn 70 oed, dynodiad Cwmbrân yn dref newydd, y dref gyntaf a'r unig dref newydd, ar wahân i un, i gael ei hadeiladu yng Nghymru o dan Ddeddf Trefi Newydd 1946. Wrth dyfu i fyny yn y 1980au yn ardal Llanyrafon o'r dref, ar gyrion gorllewinol etholaeth Trefynwy, roeddwn yn ymwybodol iawn fod y lle roeddwn yn ei alw'n gartref rywsut yn wahanol ac fe'm swynwyd gan y weledigaeth o ddyfodol mwy disglair a ysbrydolodd y cynllunwyr trefol ar ôl y rhyfel. Roedd y weledigaeth honno wedi tyfu o syniadau Ebenezer Howard, sylfaenydd mudiad y gardd-ddinasoedd Fictoraidd ac awdur To-morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform. Roedd yn cefnogi creu cymunedau newydd i elwa ar aer glân, mannau agored a thai o ansawdd da, pethau prin ym Mhrydain ar ôl y rhyfel. Yng Nghwmbrân, roedd hefyd yn cynnwys gwaith arloesol i bedestreiddio canol y dref yn llwyr, gyda pharcio am ddim, ac yn y pen draw, ar ôl i Gorfforaeth Datblygu Cwmbrân ddod i ben, daeth yn ganol tref cyntaf y DU i fod mewn dwylo preifat. Fe'i rhagwelwyd yn wreiddiol fel cymuned o 35,000 o bobl, ond mae Cwmbrân wedi tyfu i fod yn agosach at 50,000 o bobl mewn gwirionedd. O ganlyniad i'r ehangu hwn, mae llawer mwy o bobl bellach wedi gwneud y dref newydd yn gartref iddynt. Mae 70 o flynyddoedd wedi bod ers i'r Gweinidog Cynllunio Gwlad a Thref ar y pryd, Lewis Silkin, ddweud wrth gadeirydd pwyllgor y Cabinet, Herbert Morrison: Rwy'n credu y gallwn adeiladu tref newydd dda iawn yma. Byddai llawer yn dweud bod hanes wedi'i brofi'n gywir. Pen-blwydd hapus, Cwmbrân.