Category: Newport

The leader of Newport City Council has defended a decision to join a European leadership programme, which he argued has helped develop job opportunities for young residents.

Construction work on Newport’s new leisure centre is expected to finish “at the end of the year”, with more detailed opening plans set to be announced in the winter.

Children, parents with prams, and wheelchair users are “routinely forced off” a pavement because of “severe overgrowth” of verges, a Newport councillor has warned.

Councillors in Newport have reluctantly turned down a proposal for a new children’s nursery in Lliswerry, largely over safety concerns.

Plans for 14 new one-bedroom flats in Newport have won the approval of the city council’s planning committee.

New community football pitches will be built next to a major housing development on the outskirts of Newport, under a deal between the builder and city council.

Plans for a replacement bridge in Bassaleg are in limbo once again after funding applications for the next stage of the project were unsuccessful.

Newport’s Transporter Bridge is expected to reopen to the public in 2027 once “challenging” refurbishment works have been completed.

Traffic-calming measures should be installed along a stretch of Bassaleg Road in Newport before more crashes happen, a city councillor has argued.

Promotion of the Welsh language at Newport City Council has improved but “we will always be able to do better”, a cabinet member has said.