Category: Newport

Newport Council’s maintenance backlog for its highways assets is currently estimated to be £118.7 million, including £50 million of road repairs.

A new strategy will help Newport Council support members of the city’s creative sector and help them organise events to draw in visitors.

Cllr Dimitri Batrouni promised a “bread and butter budget” for 2025/26 that he said would focus on “the issues people see in their day-to-day lives”.

Planning officers have approved the ongoing refurbishment of the former Irish Club in Newport’s Commercial Road.

Newport City Council anticipates losing a lucrative income stream next year when its landfill site shuts down.

Newport Council officers have recommended planning permission be granted, despite objections from 22 neighbours and two ward councillors.

The four-bedroom house at 27 Morden Road could become a five-bed HMO (house in multiple occupation), under new plans.

Newport City Council is making “emerging and ongoing improvement” in its payment of adoption allowances to families.

Local authorities face ongoing uncertainty over who will fund increases to National Insurance contributions, councillors in Newport have heard.

Residents have less than a week left to have their say on Newport City Council’s draft budget proposals for 2025/26.