Category: Newport

A new visitor centre for Newport’s famous Transporter Bridge will include “really great” activities and spaces for schoolchildren.

Plans for up to 40 riverside flats in Newport have won the backing of the city council’s planning committee.

Councillors have refused to grant planning permission for a HMO in Newport over concerns about a bedroom size, bike storage, and bins.

A family’s plan to build an annexe for an older relative at their home has been approved at the second attempt.

Newport City Council is behind the project, which forms part of wider plans to regenerate the park it bought outright in 2024.

Questions have been raised over the speed and level of investment in plans to reopen public toilets in Newport.

Newport City Council currently offers residential care to 208 adults who have learning disabilities – of whom 90 live outside Newport.

“Unprecedented” housing pressures are placing more people in Newport at risk of homelessness.

Public services in Newport could benefit from the city council moving to a new headquarters, a councillor believes.

Plans for a “new era” of prosperity in Newport city centre have been largely welcomed by councillors.