Carmarthenshire Planning Problems and more

Carmarthenshire Council are always very keen to promote their 'green' credentials. The 'Media' section of their website pro...

Someone has been forging Councillors' signatures. An unknown Councillor/s has forged the signatures of three Planning Committee Members...

I called in at the Planning Committee meeting this afternoon at County Hall to see how Mr Humphreys' application to (retrospectively) re...

I notice that the Council has just published the allowances and expenses of it's 74 County Councillors for 2010 to 2011. By my reckoning...

As I have been following Carmarthenshire Planning Department's relentless, expensive and disproportionate pursuit of Mr Humphreys and th...

With the fall out over the decision to keep open the two Llanelli care homes continuing, I notice that next week's full Council meetin...

Further to my earlier post, 'The Council Works in Mysterious Ways...' I see the mystery deepens over the supposedly impoverished Ca...

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I hear this morning that the appeal against the refusal for the Coedbach Biomass power plant near Kidwelly due to start in June  has been w...

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

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

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

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

 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 ...

A forthcoming report to the Council's Audit Committee illustrates the ineffectiveness of the Wales Audit Office and failings within the...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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