New LDP projects an additional 7,500+ homes for Bridgend county by 2033
(Title Image: via zoopla.com) Earlier this week, Bridgend Council’s planning committee held their monthly meeting. One of the main items …
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Direct payment personal assistants set to get a flat £12-per-hour rate
(Title Image: John Birdsall via communitycare.co.uk) Later today, a Bridgend Council scrutiny committee will discuss the direct payments system (pdf). …
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Bridgend Council Budget 2019-20: Where’s your money going?
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, where I spread joy and happiness to the citizens of Bridgend by …
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Why isn’t there one recycling system for the whole of Wales?
(Title Image: Wales Online) If you’ve read the Glamorgan Gazette or Wales Online recently, you won’t have failed to notice …
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School Categorisation 2019: How did Bridgend’s schools do?
(Title Image: Wales Online) As you might remember, I recently wrote about a scrutiny committee report on the performance of …
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Feasibility study to find a solution to Pencoed level crossing issues
(Title Image: via Youtube) The Welsh Government are to fund a £60,000 feasibility study to draft long-term solutions to issues …
Read More Challenges and triumphs as Bridgend school performance to be discussed
(Title Image: Wales Online) Later this week, a Bridgend Council scrutiny committee will discuss a report on the performance of …
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Bridgenders Behaving Badly: How Bridgend Council intends to deal with ill-mannered residents
One of the more provocative items on the agenda for this week’s Cabinet meeting is a report (pdf) and strategy …
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Bridgend Council to consult on stricter empty homes policy
(Title Image: Bridgend Housing Options) Towards the beginning of 2018, I wrote about what BCBC were doing to address empty …
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Bridgend Council drafts new homelessness strategy
(Tilte Image: St Mungo’s) A public consultation is set to be launched on a new strategy to tackle homelessness, subject …
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Major shake-up of Bridgend council wards proposed
(Title Image: via Google Earth) As some of you might be aware, earlier this week the Local Government Boundary Commission …
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Public searches for a deeper meaning behind graffiti message
Who did it? Why did they do it? Is it a tourist attraction? How much is it worth? If this …
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Plans to bring two Wildmill eyesores back into use
(Title Image: via Google Earth) If you’ve read the Glamorgan Gazette or Wales Online recently you could be forgiven for …
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Bridgend Council’s new policy to cut down on “little mistakes”
(Title Image: lastminutemusicians.com) Risk assessments and audit in a local authority are hardly the most exciting topics in the world, …
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Bridgend College steams ahead with technology centre at Pencoed
(Title Image: Rio Architects) Bridgend College recently submitted plans for an 8,500sqm technology centre at their Pencoed campus. The …
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Application for further 40+ homes in Brackla
(Title Image: via Google Earth) Just before Christmas, Hafod housing association submitted plans for 41 homes on land near the …
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Still time left to comment on Sunnyside & Bryn Castell developments
This is one of three planning-related posts over the next few days and I start by revisiting two major applications …
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Bridgend taxi fare changes held up
If you though the long-running saga of a proposed increase in taxi fares in Bridgend county was over, I’m sure …
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Brackla wood housing plan resubmitted
EDIT: Comments have to be in by January 14th 2019. A planning application for a housing development at Briary Wood …
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Welsh Government cash to expand Welsh-medium nursery provision in Bridgend
The Welsh Government is to provide £2.6million towards an expansion of Welsh-medium nursery groups in Bridgend county, according to a …
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Bridgend Council 2019-20 budget consultation results revealed
Bridgend Council’s Cabinet is due to discuss the results of the annual “Shaping Bridgend’s Future” consultation next week (pdf). The …
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Cardiff City Region set to pilot paid graduate internship scheme
Next Monday (17th December 2018), the Cardiff City Region Cabinet is due to meet and one item up for discussion …
Read More £285,000 Councillor Community Fund likely to be scrapped after one year
A fund set up for Bridgend county councillors to spend on their wards is likely to be scrapped after a year following a difficult administration.
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Consultation still open on plans for 139 homes at former Bryn Castell special school
A pre-planning consultation is still open regardingr a development of 139 homes at the former Ysgol Bryn Castell.
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New council depot could cost more than expected
Parc Afon Ewenni is (eventually) going to be a brownfield housing development at Waterton Cross to the south of Bridgend. …
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