Category: Newport

Free parking will be available in seven of Newport’s car parks on Saturdays in the run-up to Christmas, the city council has confirmed.

Applicant Antony James won planning permission for the new properties at a committee meeting in July 2024.

Newport City Council must modernise the way residents can contact the authority or risk “leaving the next generation behind”, its leader has said.

A councillor in Newport has called for “real accountability” to stop children riding electric scooters to and from school.

Free car parking is set to be reintroduced across Newport in the run-up to Christmas, the city council has said.

Planning permission was granted previously for a 123-room hotel or new homes at Crown Buildings, which overlooks Clarence Place in Newport.

Thousands more trees will be planted across Newport, to add to the current green areas, woodlands and parks which make up its “urban forest”.

Rising demand for temporary accommodation in Newport is fuelling a new plan to tackle the “waste” of empty homes.

Newport City Council has faced value-for-money questions over moving its Information Station for public services.

Public toilets in Newport’s Beechwood Park could be reopened for future summers, the city council’s leader said.