Carmarthenshire Planning Problems and more

An interesting snippet of legislation was laid down just before parliament dissolved the other day which removed the requirement to appo...

Update 30th March - BBC Wales are reporting that the home care company, Mitie, referred to in the post below, has now agreed to pay it...

A few years back, after lengthy monitoring, Llandeilo's main street became a 'Air Quality Management Area' after breaching s...

For information; Further to correspondence exchanged in January, I received a letter from chief executive Mark James' solicitors, ...

In a somewhat bizarre move, and a month after the budget, the council decided to issue a press release the other day about the handful o...

In it's hurry to sell off any council owned building which isn't tied down, the council have got a bit muddled over the wording ...

Although clearly not connected to the ongoing police investigation, Operation Almond, Rhydgors Special school was  back in the news  t...

The Ffos Las racecourse in Trimsaran has been one of the jewels in Meryl's crown and, over the past few years planning permission ha...

Friday's Policy and Resources Scrutiny agenda sees, at last, a draft revised Press and Media Protocol. This has been an ongoing exercise...

As I said back in January  Carmarthenshire County Councillor Sian Caiach is standing for Llanelli in the general election on May 7th. Sh...

This week's edition of the Carmarthenshire Herald picks up on County Hall's relationship with the Towy Community Church and...

The £5m link road As predicted (and covered in detail) over on Cneifwr's blog , the Executive Board were quite happy yesterday to ...

The first half of today's full council meeting was essentially to ratify the budget approved last week. As I and others commented a...

Pic source; Carmarthenshire Herald Today's first edition of the Carmarthenshire Herald leads with the allegations of histo...

Last week, amongst the budget proposals, the council approved over £200,000 in cuts to services for children with special educational ne...

Next Monday's Executive Board meeting has a couple of interesting items. The first concerns County Hall's evangelical friends at...

Update 25th May 2017; Dyfed Powys Police have issued this statement; Update 4th March 2015 17.10 ; BBC Wales have obtained a ...

In case it still isn't very apparent, the council, via the working group are aiming, they say, to be the 'most open council in W...

A few hours after Mark James's budget was approved on Tuesday , Labour Minister Leighton Andrews issued a statement, again referrin...

The sound wasn't working for the first twenty minutes of today's council webcast but when it did kick in, the Chamber was in mid...