Number of calls to Cardiff housing helpline increases to highest level over past year
THE number of calls made to Cardiff Council’s housing helpline has increased to its highest level over the past year. Cardiff Council’s cabinet member for housing and communities, Cllr Lynda Thorne, said at a scrutiny committee meeting on Monday, May…
17 Cardiff Councillors fail to complete mandatory training
AT least 17 Cardiff councillors failed to complete their mandatory training nearly a year after being elected. The figures were revealed in a report, dating from March, presented to Cardiff Council’s standards and ethics committee during a discussion on a…
State of roads in the Dinas Powys area of Glamorgan deemed ‘disgusting’ by residents
RESIDENTS and cyclists have complained about the state of roads in Dinas Powys, which they say have become riddled with potholes. Local councillors and residents met up to protest about the roads in the Vale of Glamorgan town on Friday,…
Councillor’s online vent over missing bus highlights familiar frustration for commuters
A councillor’s online vent about a bus in Cardiff which never turned up has highlighted an issue which is familiar to a number of commuters. One of Cardiff Council’s ward members for Llandaff, Cllr Peter Huw Jenkins, took to social…
Councillor deems maintenance on popular cycle way in Cardiff ‘frustrating and disappointing’
A COUNCILLOR has called the impact of maintenance work on a popular shared cycle and pedestrian way in Cardiff “frustrating and disappointing”. The shared path which emerges from underneath the railway bridge on to Taffs Mead Embankment in Grangetown has…
Glamorgan Council confident harsher measures to tackle recycling contamination are working
A COUNCIL official said recycling contamination has been dealt with harshly to help people in the Vale of Glamorgan pick up the separated recycling method quicker. The Vale of Glamorgan Council continued the rollout of its separated recycling scheme as…
Free school meals roll out across Vale of Glamorgan
A COUNCILLOR has expressed her relief that all primary school children in the Vale of Glamorgan are now receiving free meals. The Vale of Glamorgan Council’s cabinet member for education, arts and the Welsh language, Concillor Rhiannon Birch said the…
Councillors vote in favour of altering enforcement notice on incinerator in Barry
COUNCILLORS have voted in support of altering an enforcement notice served on a Barry incinerator under threat of closure. Vale of Glamorgan Council’s planning committee met on Thursday April 27 to discuss plans to vary the enforcement notice served on…
Councillors give green-light to controversial congestion charge for Cardiff City
COUNCILLORS have given the go-ahead to plans which could eventually see a congestion charge introduced in Cardiff. Cardiff Council cabinet members met on Thursday, April 27, at City Hall to discuss the possibility of bringing in a road user payment…
Charities in Cardiff paint stark picture of situation outside emergency accommodation for homeless
THE head of one of Cardiff’s biggest homelessness centres said the queuing system outside its building has changed amid concerns over violence. A recently published Shelter Cymru report called the system of queuing outside the Huggard centre and Ty Tresillian…