Work to build the new and much-anticipated visitor centre at Newport’s famous Transporter Bridge is nearing completion.
Author: Nicholas Thomas - Local Democracy Reporting Service
Hundreds facing Christmas in temporary homes amid warnings of ‘growing crisis’
A councillor has warned new figures show a “worsening” trend in the county borough, where one person spent more than three years in supposedly temporary housing.
Electric vehicle charging could be coming to shopping centre
Plans show four charging stations could be installed, providing power to up to eight vehicles at any one time.
Council could replace sheltered housing site with 16 affordable homes
Caerphilly County Borough Council has applied for planning permission to redevelop the Castle Court sheltered housing complex, in Pontywaun.
Sixth-form school transport fee rise confirmed
Parents of sixth-formers who use subsidised school transport in Newport will face a 5% hike in their contributions from January.
Support for new primary school after old building declared unsafe
Proposals for a new primary school in Bettws will be advanced, Newport City Council has decided.
Call for action over ’empty and unused’ building near town centre
An empty office building in Caerphilly should be taken into public ownership and turned into affordable housing, a councillor has claimed.
New homes approved for former GP surgery site
Planners have approved the conversion of the former Troed y Bryn Surgery, in Penyrheol, into housing.
Claim HMO conversion would provide ‘much-needed’ affordable housing
Documents submitted to Caerphilly County Borough Council show the house has been “on the open market for several months” but “has not sold as a family property”.
Parents ‘overjoyed’ at return of school’s crossing patrol
Hundreds of people signed a petition to bring back the service at the school over road safety concerns.