A new veterinary practice could increase visitors to Caerphilly’s Castle View Shopping Centre, planners have suggested.
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Plans for potential new windfarm unveiled
The turbines, up to 180 metres tall, would be located on grassland east of Abercarn and the A467, north of Cwmcarn Forest Drive.
Award nomination for ‘natural leader’ who helped start mental health scheme
Emma Jenkins, from Bargoed, is a mental health crisis manager for the South East Wales Shared Lives Scheme, which she helped set up five years ago.
Llancaiach Fawr supporters organise meeting to draw up rescue plan
With 34 jobs on the line, the council must “do everything possible” to keep Llancaiach Fawr open, said Unison’s branch secretary for Caerphilly.
Authority facing ‘significant financial challenges’ – Council leader
Caerphilly County Borough Council leader Sean Morgan discusses the financial pressures facing the local authority in this blog for Caerphilly Observer.
Trade union’s fight to save local services ‘by no means over’ following council cuts
Trade union body, Unison, has welcomed the council’s decision to keep the Meals Direct service, but condemned the ‘mothballing’ of Llanaiach Fawr.
Angry scenes as council confirms Llancaiach Fawr will be ‘mothballed’
At a cabinet meeting on Wednesday September 25, senior councillors backed their original proposal to mothball the site, sparking angry scenes in the public gallery.
‘Lifeline’ meals on wheels service saved after widespread opposition to closure
The council’s cabinet has agreed to ask its officers to find ways to make the service more sustainable, rather than axe it.
Mothballing Llancaiach Fawr ‘tantamount to cultural vandalism’
Supporters of the venue launched an impassioned resistance at a meeting on Tuesday September 24 against the council’s cost-cutting proposals.
Critics rail against ‘shameful’ plan to axe meals on wheels service
The council argues it has to make difficult decisions to save an estimated £45 million over the next two years, but critics say this proposal is a cut in the wrong place.