Carmarthenshire Planning Problems and more

Passers-by have again reported seeing steam issuing forth from the windows of the Presidential Suite, County Hall. This is becoming a reg...

Update 7th May ; Flintshire Council has written to Mr Butler to say they now have no objection to him recording meetings. This is good n...

Back in February, following speculation that the aborted severance application made by the chief executive may have incurred some legal...

As part of the council's efficiency savings a non-negotiable £1m is to be sliced off funding to the third sector, ie voluntary group...

Somewhat inspired, I have to say, by a recent post from Pembs councillor and blogger, Old Grumpy, ' Name-calling ', I'm now ...

Unlike England, and a couple of local authorities in Wales, Carmarthenshire Council doesn't believe in publishing any spending detai...

This week's edition of the Carmarthenshire Herald is, again, worth 50p of anyone's money. It's good to see, at the bottom o...

Back in 2013, Councillors' Annual reports began to trickle onto the website and although they're not compulsory at the moment, t...

(See later update 29th July 2016; Ombudsman tells brawling councillors to behave )  Not quite sure what it is about Llanelli Rural Cou...

A few week's ago,  Press Gazette ran a story listing the number of PR staff, or 'spin doctors' employed by council Press Of...

You might recall, in the dim and distant past, that the Welsh Local Government Association carried out a 'peer review' concernin...

Following the usual formalities, the first item of interest was the election of chair and vice chair for the new municipal year. Carmart...

As we know, Executive Board Member Decision Meetings are currently held behind closed doors, even backbench councillors are barred from atte...

The official lists have now been published and first up is Carmarthen East and Dinefwr ; In alphabetical order; Jonathan Edwards, Pl...

With the election on the horizon our council has yet another perfect excuse to avoid controversial matters, of which there are many. Thi...

Councillors over in Pembrokeshire have been expressing disquiet over the temporary appointment of a new Monitoring Officer to replace t...

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...