Carmarthenshire Planning Problems and more

The Autumn Term at County hall kicks off on Tuesday with an Executive Board meeting. The new (well, not so new now) Plaid leadership can...

It has been almost a year since I last wrote about Public Question Time at full council meetings , or the lack thereof. This week's ...

The local press have all covered the case of Community Councillor Heulwen Lewis who failed to declare a financial interest when the Brec...

Below is an open letter from Unison Carmarthenshire to Plaid Cymru's Emlyn Dole, Leader of Carmarthenshire Council published in this...

As this blog has mentioned before , back in 2013 the Council joined with the developers of the controversial Grillo site, Castletown Est...

Last Thursday the planning committee approved an application, put forward by the council itself, to demolish a former village school and...

See also later post 1st October 2015; Emlyn's Barn - Take 2 and even later post October 8th 2015 ; Council leader's barn - yet...

Interesting report published this morning from civil liberty group  Big Brother Watch (pdf) concerning personal data breaches at local ...

Towards the end of last week a press release was published on the council website announcing that the Annual Report and Improvement Plan...

Much to the despair, I would imagine, of the struggling town centre, 'expressions of interest' are being invited to develop four...

Further to Monday's post on this blog;  Ombudsman; Council maladministration - Data Protection and mental health , It's good to ...

Another contentious ruling over a Carmarthenshire wind turbine was issued by the High Court yesterday. A Judicial Review brought by a lo...

BBC Wales reports that for 2013-14 Carmarthenshire Council made a profit in parking income of £795,000, this is record amount for the c...

As this week's Herald reports (not yet online), an email has emerged addressed to Exec Board Member Cllr Meryl Gravell thanking her ...

(Later post 7th August; Friday's Herald - The Ombudsman's report ) Another complaint to the Ombudsman made against Carmarthens...

Further to my post last week concerning the long-running failure and mismanagement of Carmarthenshire Council's Supporting People gr...

Brynmefys Estate from PEMBS.TV on Vimeo .  Alan Evans reports for The Herald . A detailed report appeared in last week's Carma...

Finally, after a kick up the backside from the WLGA Governance review last year, and a lot of legal chewing over what should and what sh...

Meryl and 'democracy' The Carmarthenshire Herald continues to delve into the bowels of the Parc Howard saga (see earlier posts...

(Update 31st July; See also later post; Council's Support Grant failures - in the press ) Each year Carmarthenshire County Council...

It's now been eighteen months since the Extraordinary council meeting to discuss the pension and libel indemnity scandals exposed by th...