Category: Newport

Extra money for Newport’s public services is “positive news” but the city council still faces “significant cost pressures”, its leader says.

A club owner’s plan to sell alcohol slightly later at night will give him “more of a chance to compete” with other venues in Newport city centre.

A new “all singing, all dancing” primary school could be built in Bettws, where some pupils are in their third academic year without a permanent home.

Newport City Council’s planning committee has renewed planning permission for a new home off Milton Hill, in Llanwern.

The transformation of Newport’s western outskirts looks likely to continue, with the planned construction of two “major” industrial units.

Converting a rural outbuilding into a new home would have a “significant adverse impact” on the surrounding countryside, council planners in Newport have warned.