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OBSERVING CARMARTHENSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL SINCE 2009...

Thursday, 31 March 2011

Stopped from Filming a Council Public Meeting

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Again in the interests of transparency and so members of the public can see our wonderful planning department and committee in action I dec...
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Pantecelyn School - Judicial Review

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I am publishing the following press release on behalf of the Save Pantecelyn Action Group (YPAG). Preliminary enquiries have been made regar...
Wednesday, 30 March 2011

The Council Works in Mysterious Ways...

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I see that Carmarthenshire Council are planning to give £280,000 towards the funding of the proposed bowling alley and community facility o...
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Tuesday, 29 March 2011

County Hall Pravda Rebranded

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One of my correspondents drew my attention to the fact that the council rag 'Community News' is coming to an end. However my celebra...

Police to Investigate Wales Audit Office?

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 I see that the committee of AM's are now demanding a police investigation into Jeremy Colman's dealings whilst he was chief of the ...
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Sunday, 27 March 2011

Grants, Loans and an Inappropriate '!'

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A forthcoming report to the Council's Audit Committee illustrates the ineffectiveness of the Wales Audit Office and failings within the...
Thursday, 24 March 2011

Wales Audit Office Whitewash

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Well, as promised the ex-chief officer of the Wales Audit Office, Anthony Snow was brought before the Assembly Public Accounts Committee ye...
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Tuesday, 22 March 2011

School Spin and More..

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I see the latest press release from Carmarthenshire Council announces that the funding for the new superschool on the flood plains of Ffair...
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Thursday, 17 March 2011

Carmarthenshire Council's Fat Cats 2011

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The Taxpayer's Alliance has, for our convenience, published it's annual Town Hall Rich List  for 2009/2010, I should imagine there...
Wednesday, 16 March 2011

Carmarthenshire Planning - Ignoring it's own Rules

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This week's Llanelli Star reports that Carmarthenshire's Planning and Legal Departments are ignoring it's own rules; The counc...
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Tuesday, 8 March 2011

Is Pantecelyn School Now Sustainable? - Part Two

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Following on from this previous post, 'Is Pantecelyn School now Sustainable?  I see that the Save Pantecelyn Action Group have written, ...
Friday, 4 March 2011

Pantecelyn - Letter in South Wales Guardian

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In response to this article about Llandovery sorting office in the South Wales Guardian, 'Anger as Last Post Sounds in Llandovery' ...
Monday, 28 February 2011

Filming in the Chamber...(and the Care Homes Stay Open!)

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Pleased to see the campaigners trying to save two care homes for the elderly in Llanelli score a victory today in Carmarthenshire Council Ch...
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Friday, 25 February 2011

Recording Council Meetings - The Response

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Following on from my previous post, here , I have had a reply to my query regarding the recording of Council meetings; "While the la...
Wednesday, 23 February 2011

Recording Council Meetings

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Eric Pickles' statement today that bloggers and members of the public should be allowed to make recordings, online films etc of Counci...
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Saturday, 19 February 2011

Housing Benefit Cuts - Carmarthenshire - Leaked Document

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Today's South Wales Evening Post reports (  Benefits blitz 'set to target poorest' ) on the contents of a 'leaked' Carma...
Thursday, 17 February 2011

Conflict of Interest?

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Back to the story of Mr Humphreys and the Mill at Felin Wen. Mr Humphreys has now made an official complaint over the role of one of the pl...
Wednesday, 16 February 2011

Cuts and Double Standards

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As the deliberations over Carmarthenshire Council's budget cuts rumbles on I was rather disappointed that the Council should blame thos...

Is Pantecelyn School Now 'Sustainable'?

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Campaigners trying to save Pantecelyn secondary school, Llandovery from closure are a little puzzled over Education Minister, Leighton Andre...
Monday, 14 February 2011

Wielding the Axe

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Today's paper has yet another report on Carmarthenshire Council's budget cuts. As I have mentioned the proposals many times throug...
Saturday, 12 February 2011

More Tales from the Wales Audit Office

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The continuing revelations into the champagne lifestyle of those chosen to protect public money in Wales are reported in today's Western...
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Even More Cash for the Gardens

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A local journalist has managed to squeeze an answer from the supposedly 'cash-strapped' Carmarthenshire Council as to the amount i...
Friday, 4 February 2011

Leader Caebrwyn?..Meryl's Left Out!

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Must say I was rather flattered to be chosen above Carmarthenshire Council Leader Gravell as a recipient of a Welsh Assembly email yesterday...
Tuesday, 1 February 2011

Persistent Complainants Policy Again

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Following recent posts about Carmarthenshire Council's Persistent Complainants Policy, the lady I mentioned, Mrs Breckman has, as I said...
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Monday, 31 January 2011

Building Regs - Did You Know?

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I was sent a copy of a letter from a resident of Llanelli, Mr Ray Jones. Apparently, despite previously printing many letters critical of Ca...
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Friday, 28 January 2011

Patronising Nonsense - Carmarthenshire Council 'Cuts Survey'

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I am glad it wasn't just me who thought Carmarthenshire Council's latest attempt to 'engage' with the public was nothing mo...

Llandeilo By-Pass on the Way?

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The issue of the Llandeilo by-pass happened to crop up again last week with unacceptably high levels of air pollution reported along the mai...
Monday, 24 January 2011

Stradey Park Development

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The recent news that the Welsh Assembly has decided not to call-in the 355 home Stradey development has been met with disgust by the campai...
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Saturday, 22 January 2011

Cosy Chat (part 2)

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With regards to the new secondary school site selection process referred to in my previous post, Cosy Chat? , a selection of email correspo...
Wednesday, 19 January 2011

Cosy Chat?

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Following on from Sainsburys, Llandeilo...and the New School Site , I had a response today to my Freedom of Information request for the Co...
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