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Tag: caerphilly county borough council

Former pub to be converted into five-bedroom home

Tuesday, December 19, 2023Tuesday, December 19, 2023

The now-closed Coal Hole Inn will now be turned into a five-bedroom house after planning permission was approved.

More than 1,000 road signs taken down across borough when 20mph law came into force

Tuesday, December 19, 2023Tuesday, December 19, 2023

More than a thousand road signs were taken down and either salvaged or scrapped in Caerphilly when Wales’ new 20mph laws came into force.

“Very frustrating”: Councillor criticises new planning application for daily roadside takeaway

Friday, December 15, 2023Friday, December 15, 2023

There is a new application to use the building as a daily roadside canteen and takeaway which will be open from 9am to 5pm daily.

Power grid plan approved despite residents’ fears it will ‘blight’ their ‘idyllic’ village

Friday, December 15, 2023Friday, December 15, 2023

Llanfabon residents argue the development would lead to increased noise, light pollution and traffic.

“We are in a crisis”: Homelessness charity shares struggles of rough sleepers in winter

Friday, December 15, 2023Friday, December 15, 2023

Hayley Thomas, founder of homelessness charity HCT, wants the council to make it easier for people in need to ask for help.

Council could force sales of listed buildings if owners fail to protect them

Thursday, December 14, 2023Thursday, December 14, 2023

Senior councillors have backed a new proposal aimed at preserving the county borough’s most at-risk listed buildings.

Owners of long-term empty homes could have council tax bills quadrupled

Thursday, December 14, 2023Thursday, December 14, 2023

There are 1,008 so-called long-term empty homes across the county borough, including 131 that have stood empty for a decade or longer.

Plans for new £17m campus and to shut down infants’ school move closer

Thursday, December 14, 2023Friday, December 15, 2023

Senior councillors in Caerphilly have agreed to pursue the closure of an infants’ school and the relocation of two other schools in the county borough.

Council house tenants face a 6.7% rent increase from April

Thursday, December 14, 2023Thursday, December 14, 2023

Council house tenants in Caerphilly County Borough will pay nearly £7 more in rent each week from April 2024.

Council to keep grass cutting “to a minimum” in 2024

Wednesday, December 13, 2023Wednesday, December 13, 2023

A new report shows Caerphilly County Borough Council has identified 61 areas allowed “to flourish” across the borough in 2024.

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