Councillors from Croesyceiliog & Llanyrafon Community Council want answers to how the consultation around the closure of North Road surgery was handled.
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‘We need more local, homegrown projects” to avoid being reliant on ‘foreign energy’: Councillors discuss Cwmbran solar panel farm project being stopped
A proposal to build a solar panel farm in Cwmbran has been stopped in its tracks four years after it was first presented to councillors.
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Councillors unanimously approve £1.7m investment in Greenmeadow Community Farm
Councillors today approved a £1.7m investment to transform Greenmeadow Community Farm into a ‘premier visitor destination for families in Gwent’
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A visit to the Cwmbran cafe that is staffed by young people with Asperger’s Syndrome and autistic spectrum disorders
Two minutes after arriving in the cafe at Aspris College a 16-year-old student was making me a lovely cup of coffee for the bargain price of 70p.
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Torfaen council on course for an underspend of around half a million pounds
TORFAEN council is on course for an underspend of around half a million pounds this financial year but its cabinet has been warned rising inflation could hit its finances.
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Average wait on Torfaen’s Homeseeker for a home is 18 months: Welsh Conservatives say more social housing needs to be built in Wales
Figures given to the Welsh Conservatives following a Freedom of Information query show the average wait for people on Torfaen’s Homeseeker register to get a home in 2021 was 18 months.
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‘If this comes in it’s going to ruin our lives and we are going to be on lower pay as well’: Day two of the Royal Mail 48-hour strike in Cwmbran
Royal Mail workers in Cwmbran continued their 48-hour strike in Cwmbran today. They gathered outside the former post office in General Rees Square for the second day.
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Cwmbran Royal Mail workers start 48-hour strike today
Royal Mail workers from Cwmbran joined in the start of a national 48-hour strike this morning. They met outside the former post office in General Rees Square.
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Councillors to discuss next steps for a new £1m 3G pitch on a former playing field in Llantarnam
Councillors will decide next week if plans should be developed to build a new £1m 3G sports pitch, floodlights, changing room and access road on the former playing fields in Llantarnam.
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£1.7m investment to transform Greenmeadow Community Farm into an attraction that pulls in 70,000 visitors a year
Torfaen councillors are being asked to invest £1.7million to transform Greenmeadow Community Farm into one of the ‘premier visitor destinations for families in Gwent’.