Nicholas Thomas - Local Democracy Reporting Service, Author at Caerphilly Observer

Children’s residential home could open on activity centre site

Ynys Hywel Countryside Centre, in Cwmfelinfach, could be partially converted into a residential home for under-16s.

Murray’s, on Upper High Street, has applied for planning permission to change the use of the second floor into a B&B with four bedrooms.

A developer has proposed the transformation of part of a car park in Blackwood into affordable housing.

Cllr Nigel Dix said traders in his hometown of Blackwood were “struggling to make ends meet”.

Nearly one in six people in Wales is on a waiting list for NHS treatment, according to new figures.

Many residents will have new collection days over the next two weeks, before normal collection rounds resume in the week beginning Monday January 8.

Blackwood councillor Kevin Etheridge has proposed abolishing the traditional voting system for local government elections.

Caerphilly will receive one of the lowest increases in council funding from the Welsh Government next year.

An old hospital morgue could be turned into office space for employees as part of new plans to improve “staff welfare facilities”.

More than a thousand road signs were taken down and either salvaged or scrapped in Caerphilly when Wales’ new 20mph laws came into force.