for election during the 2017 Cardiff Council election. All candidates were therefore elected unopposed. The following by-elections took place between May 2017 and the next election in 2022. Political affiliation recorded as 'Welsh Conservative' on the Pentyrch Community Council website (March 2020). Political affiliation recorded as 'Welsh Conservative' on the Pentyrch Community Council website (March 2020). 2022 Community Council Election The next election is due to be held in May 2022. Amenities Acapela Studio, a concert hall and recording studio, is owned by harpist Catrin Finch and music and television producer Hywel Wigley. Acapela studio has hosted a series of Welsh acts such as Gruff Rhys, Cerys Matthews and Charlotte Church as well as local and international music acts. Many programs for S4C and the BBC are filmed there. The building itself is converted from the former presbyterian Capel Horeb. Opposite Acapela is the Lewis Arms public house. The focus of older buildings in the village is reached by forking left after entering the village, travelling down to the King's Arms pub, and St. Catwg's Church, at the lowest point of the village. Along with St. Catwg's Church and its lychgate, the King's Arms is a Grade II Listed building. Originally a seventeenth century copyhold farm called Cae Golman, the King's Arms became established as a public house in the eighteenth century. The bar has a fireplace with a chamfered beam, dated 1711. Housing is split between older housing and large developments of post-1970s housing. Sport in the village is centred on the Pentyrch Rugby Football Club. There is also a cricket pitch and other facilities at the club. Pentyrch Rangers football club is based in the village. The club has nearly 200 registered players and runs 10 junior and mini football teams in the Cardiff and District League. Other amenities include a village hall and primary school. Craig-y-parc House, in wooded grounds outside the village is a former country house, now a residential school for children and young adult with disabilities. Designed by Charles Edward Mallows for the colliery owner Thomas Evans, and built between 1914 and 1918, it is a Grade II* listed building. Notable people Lucie Jones, singer and model Robin Sowden-Taylor, rugby player, raised in Pentyrch Craig Williams MP, lives in Pentyrch and served as Cardiff City Councillor for Pentyrch ward from 2008 to 2015 References External links Pentyrch.org.uk web site The Pentyrch and District Local