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Tag: caerphilly county borough council

Green light for village flats to be converted into five-bed HMO

Tuesday, October 1, 2024Tuesday, October 1, 2024

The proposals for 79 Commercial Street will allow two existing flats to become a house in multiple occupation for five people.

Backing for new vets’ practice for town retail park

Tuesday, October 1, 2024Tuesday, October 1, 2024

A new veterinary practice could increase visitors to Caerphilly’s Castle View Shopping Centre, planners have suggested.

Plans for potential new windfarm unveiled

Tuesday, October 1, 2024Tuesday, October 1, 2024

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

Tuesday, October 1, 2024Tuesday, October 1, 2024

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

Monday, September 30, 2024Monday, September 30, 2024

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

Friday, September 27, 2024Friday, September 27, 2024

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

Thursday, September 26, 2024Thursday, September 26, 2024

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’

Wednesday, September 25, 2024Monday, September 30, 2024

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

Wednesday, September 25, 2024Monday, September 30, 2024

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’

Wednesday, September 25, 2024Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Supporters of the venue launched an impassioned resistance at a meeting on Tuesday September 24 against the council’s cost-cutting proposals.

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