caerphilly county borough council News Archives

Bus shelter to be removed due to antisocial behaviour

It comes following a campaign by Blackwood residents to remove the bus shelter at Chartist Way.

Campaigners want a judicial review into the planning permission for a waste treatment facility in Cwmfelinfach.

An application to build 164 houses on greenfield land at Cwmgelli, Blackwood, has been approved.

An investigation into former council leader Dave Poole has concluded – but the matter is still to be determined after 17 months.

The council’s budget plans, which include a council tax increase but no new cuts to services, has been approved.

The wide ranging plans, which include new schools, new housing, a solar farm and more, were approved in a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.

The plans have been recommended for approval, despite more than 200 people signing a petition against it.

The wide-ranging spending plans look set to be approved by senior councillors at a cabinet meeting on February 24.

The council’s cabinet has agreed on a 3.9% council tax increase, but the Plaid Cymru group has called for it to be lowered.

In total, 807,351 people in Wales have had their first coronavirus vaccine dose, according to Public Health Wales figures.