caerphilly county borough council News Archives

Calls for ‘full and frank debate’ on changing council election voting system

Blackwood councillor Kevin Etheridge has proposed abolishing the traditional voting system for local government elections.

The director for public health in Gwent has written to schools after several children became “unwell and collapsed” after vaping.

Caerphilly will receive one of the lowest increases in council funding from the Welsh Government next year.

A new ‘Meanwhile Space’ will be coming to the town centre – which is the temporary use of a vacant unit, similar to a pop-up.

Bargoed’s Winter Fair was due to take place on December 9 but was cancelled two days before due to bad weather conditions.

An old hospital morgue could be turned into office space for employees as part of new plans to improve “staff welfare facilities”.

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

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

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.

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