COUNCILLORS will have their say on a budget with £11.4 million of cuts and a near six per cent council tax increase sooner than expected. ...
Author - Twm Owen
Local Democracy Reporter
A FORMER convenience store will remain in retail use after plans to convert the entire building for housing were refused. A bid to convert the...
THE WELSH Government will review a decision to allow plans for nine new houses on wasteland in Undy. Monmouthshire County Council’s planning...
A BID to erect a 15 metre tall telephone mast on a roadside in Cwmbran has been rejected for a third time. CK Hutchison Networks had originally...
A FURTHER three years has been granted to bring forward plans for a hotel next to Coleg Gwent’s sixth form college in Cwmbran. The Torfaen Learning...
A COUNCIL is scrapping a street cleaning team as it can no longer attract prisoners to do the work. Prisoners from HMP Prescoed, an open prison near...
TORFAEN’s newest councillor has hailed his election as vindication for his belief there is no place for party politics in local government. Jason...
LATE night swimming is a “luxury” a council which is planning to reduce the opening hours of its leisure centres cannot afford, a councillor has said...
A TOP councillor was put on the spot over whether she and her colleagues should accept a pay rise while making £11.4 million of cuts. Rachel...
AN HISTORIC home that is used as a community centre and charity base isn’t up for sale, a council has said – despite an official document saying it...
