Council Budgets, Finance & Tax

(Title Image: Bridgend County Borough Council) Within the last week or so, Bridgend Council (BCBC) has launched their "Fit for...

(Title Image: © Copyright Jaggery and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence BY-SA-2.0) South Wales Police are investigating possible...

(Title Image: CF31/former Business Improvement District) The major item of business on the agenda of this week's BCBC Cabinet meeting...

Bridgend Council's final budget for 2020-21 is due to be discussed later this week. Here's a summary. The Overall Picture...

(Title Image: CF31 Business Improvement District) Bridgend Council has agreed to sign up to the Welsh Government's high street business...

Tomorrow, Bridgend Council's Cabinet will discuss draft council budget proposals for 2020-21, weeks after the Welsh Government published the provisional...

(Title Image: via Google Earth) As you probably already know, Community Asset Transfer (CAT) is a BCBC policy to transfer...

(Title Image: Bridgend & Porthcawl Gem) Just when it looked like the recycling situation in Bridgend had reached something approaching...

(Pic: via Google Earth) At next week's Bridgend Council Cabinet meeting, officers have recommended the Cabinet authorise putting the Salt...

Under a law passed by the Senedd in 2017 – the Public Health Act – all councils in Wales need...

Following a behind-closed-doors extraordinary meeting of Bridgend Council yesterday afternoon (1st May 2019), BCBC appointed Mark Shephard as the new...

(Title Image: via Google Earth) Next week, BCBC's Cabinet is set to authorise another round of grant funding for community...

Ahead of the debate and vote on Bridgend council's budget for 2019-20, the full details of what next year's council...

(Title Image: John Birdsall via communitycare.co.uk) Later today, a Bridgend Council scrutiny committee will discuss the direct payments system (pdf)....

It's the most wonderful time of the year, where I spread joy and happiness to the citizens of Bridgend by...

(Title Image: lastminutemusicians.com) Risk assessments and audit in a local authority are hardly the most exciting topics in the world,...

Bridgend Council's Cabinet is due to discuss the results of the annual "Shaping Bridgend's Future" consultation next week (pdf). The...

A fund set up for Bridgend county councillors to spend on their wards is likely to be scrapped after a...

(Pic: via Google Earth) Parc Afon Ewenni is (eventually) going to be a brownfield housing development at Waterton Cross to...

Here's a summary of some of the key findings from Bridgend Council's Annual Report for 2017-18 (pdf). The report does...

The number of services provided through Bridgend Council's website is set to expand over the next year, according to Scrutiny...

Back in January, I wrote about changes to support BCBC would offer care-leavers who wish to study at university. After...

© Copyright Jaggery and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence. In a report due to be discussed by...

In 2017-18, Bridgend Council set up a £285,000 fund which would enable councillors to spend up to £5,000 on projects...

(© Copyright Jaggery and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence.) Following the decision to cut bus subsidies (though...