Brownfield sites and empty shops will be targeted in a new strategy for attracting businesses to Caerphilly County Borough.
Author: Nicholas Thomas - Local Democracy Reporting Service
New school building will ‘benefit wider community’
A planned new school in Caerphilly will improve children’s opportunities and benefit the wider community, according to a local ward councillor.
Hopes hospital’s new waiting room will finally ease crowding
A new waiting room extension at the Grange University Hospital is expected to open in the summer.
City’s tech hub needs more power for future growth
Major infrastructure could be installed in western Newport to support the area’s technological boom.
Dog-walking area fails to win planning permission despite early success
A new dog walking area on the edge of Newport is an “unjustified” loss of farmland and will affect users of a public right of way, councillors have decided.
Support for new work to tackle ‘blight’ of empty high-street units
A last-minute deal for a £4.5 million loan will help revitalise Bargoed and Blackwood’s high streets, Caerphilly County Borough Council believes.
Call for action to stop hundreds of shopping trolleys being dumped in city neighbourhood
Trolleys dumped in drainage channels are a nuisance and pose a flood risk, warns a Newport councillor who has reported more than 100 incidents in the past year.
Quarry in waste row could yet be classed as ‘contaminated land’
Land at Ty Llwyd quarry could yet be classed as “contaminated” because of chemicals reportedly dumped there decades ago.
Call to close footpath crossing railway line dismissed
Councillors have rejected calls to remove a footpath south of Ystrad Mynach which crosses the Cardiff to Rhymney railway line.
Blow for walkers as public path set to be diverted away from castle
A council report describes the privately-owned castle as “in a poor state of repair” and considered “dangerous” by the local authority and Welsh heritage agency Cadw.