A FORMER tailors is to be converted to a tattoo parlour after council planners gave the go-ahead.
Author - Twm Owen
Local Democracy Reporter
AN APPLICATION to demolish Gwent Police’s former headquarters – where a a new custody suite is planned – has been submitted.
NEW equipment is to be installed in a playground near an historic castle, replacing swings and slides in place since the 1960s.
A COUNCIL could buy up properties on the open market as it looks to develop its own children’s homes.
A REPLACEMENT school building – scrapped once – has moved a step closer, but a flooding risk could remain an obstacle.
NEW and improved footpaths at a popular beauty spot have been approved – but there is no decision on installing cattle grids following a dog’s death.
A FORMER councillor who served on her local authority alongside her son has died.
BLAENAU GWENT planners believe that a wind turbine development earmarked for a hillside between Abertillery and Pontypool would “be negative.”
A COUNCIL that has received a below inflation increase in its funding from the Welsh Government is “lobbying hard” for a share of a £25m windfall.
PLANS for up to 10 new homes on wasteland on the edge of Blaenavon have been submitted to Torfaen Borough Council.