Almost £70,000 of Welsh Government cash is to be awarded to several projects in Caerphilly County Borough.
The funding, totalling £68,200, is being made through the Tidy Town’s initiative.
The projects include:
• £10,000 which will allow the council to undertake environmental improvement campaigns with 23 primary schools
• £5,600 for the development of enviro-art murals in areas of Abertridwr where graffiti has previously been identified as an issue
• £52,600 to landscape and enhance the infrastructure at the public area in Lansbury Park, Caerphilly town.
Cllr David Poole, Cabinet Member for Community and Leisure Services, said: “We were pleased to welcome colleagues from Welsh Government to the county borough recently to take a look at some of the environmental improvement works we are undertaking. The feedback is that they were very impressed with the ongoing work we are doing to help make our area an even cleaner, greener place.
“The funding we have received through the Tidy Towns initiative will allow us to build upon this positive work to date, and make further environmental improvements which will be of benefit to many communities across Caerphilly County Borough.”
Tidy Towns is a Welsh Government initiative which aims to improve the quality of the local environment through community involvement.
Projects that have previously benefited from the scheme include the National Mining Memorial in Senghenydd.
Some of this money has to be spent on sorting out what has become a disgrace for residents in the centre of Caerphilly town.
I would urge the Welsh Nationalist Ward Councillors for St Martins ward, to press Caerphilly Council to do something about overflowing domestic wheely bins outside a number of houses in Stockland Street. This situation is a health issue, and anyone trying to negotiate these green bins on the pavement has to do so through the `stench` of rotting household rubbish.
This is a disgraceful situation only yards from the main street through Caerphilly and from Caerphilly Castle.
Ward Councillors have to address this problem, even though they dont live anywhere near, if they did they would ensure their childrens health would not be contaminated. Get a Grip gentlemen.
please could you tell us how much of this money will be spent outside of caerphilly town and its surrounding villages, also where it will be spent.
There was a time recently when Caerphilly town centre was having tens of thousands of pounds spent on flowers, even the cost of watering them cost came to a hell of a lot of money which was mostly paid on overtime to the parks department. At the very same time there were painting going on everywhere in town centre from fencing rails to litter bins anything that could be painted “was” . My village which is in the heart of the old islwyn borough had two old concrete manhole rings they called planters placed at each end of the village with a few scraggly flowers put in them was all we had
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We might be called caerphilly council but there is more than just one town to the borough.
The money looks a lot until you factor in what the council is prepared to offer contractors to undertake a modest amount of work. In recent weeks the Town Council was told, by the Borough, that a 35m long crash barrier would cost £42,000! If the money for schools is evenly split between them it amounts to £434 for each school.
The £68,200 total is small change compared with the hundreds of thousands wasted so far in the senior officers pay scandal. It is worth consideration that this total is less than 25 weeks salary for the next Chief Executive; that is without factoring in his undoubted perks and the employer’s National Insurance contributions. Is the spending of this sum of money, whether in Caerffili or elsewhere, newsworthy? I think not.
Richard: Think of Stockland Street, or is it Caerphilly`s own Benefit Street?
It is a disgraceful demonstration and indictment of apathy and neglect by Nationalist St Martins Ward Councillors. People living there deserve better.
Not 50 yards away in the entrance to the lane which joins Pentrebane Street to Stockland Street, there is a `stench pipe` leaking all its filth over the lane, this is a further public health hazard. Commercial Rubbish Bins from local shops overflowing with further filth into the lane.
These are issues which the Nationalist Local St Martins Ward Councillors should have already got a grip of, they are quick enough off the blocks when it comes to flying flags and doling out ratepayers money to causes close to their hearts and particular brand of politics. Get it together gents.
That may be part of the problem Arthur, lots of money seems to become available for vanity projects, ornamental gate, carved dragons, etc. All very nice but I always think of the council’s primary duties as maintaining schools, cleaning the streets, collecting refuse, keeping the drains working, lighting our streets, providing libraries and mainaining the roads.
All the above lack a certain glamour, this is why election leaflets from certain quarters concentrate on fireworks and such like.
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