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Turbine news...and Daff gets away with it
Another contentious ruling over a Carmarthenshire wind turbine was issued by the High Court yesterday. A Judicial Review brought by a local resident failed to overturn the planning permission granted...
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Friday's Herald - The Ombudsman's report
Further to Monday's post on this blog; Ombudsman; Council maladministration - Data Protection and mental health,It's good to see that both the Carmarthenshire and Llanelli Heralds have covered this...
View ArticleLlanelli town centre - The End?
Much to the despair, I would imagine, of the struggling town centre, 'expressions of interest' are being invited to develop four plots of Council owned land squeezed in and around the Trostre and...
View ArticleAspirations, cycles and indicators
Towards the end of last week a press release was published on the council website announcing that the Annual Report and Improvement Plan had been published, I've mentioned this before as it has been...
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No Data breaches? Are you sure?
Interesting report published this morning from civil liberty group Big Brother Watch (pdf) concerning personal data breaches at local authorities across the UK. The information was compiled using...
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Emlyn's Barn
As The Herald reports today, shortly before Cllr Emlyn Dole (Plaid) unexpectedly became council leader, promising to guard the heritage of Carmarthenshire and bring in a new era of transparency, he...
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Affordable Housing - The council splitting its sites?
Last Thursday the planning committee approved an application, put forward by the council itself, to demolish a former village school and build four dwellings, a separate proposal for two further...
View ArticleConsulting with councillors
As this blog has mentioned before, back in 2013 the Council joined with the developers of the controversial Grillo site, Castletown Estates Ltd to challenge the Welsh Government in court over its...
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The Key to the Presidential Toilet
Below is an open letter from Unison Carmarthenshire to Plaid Cymru's Emlyn Dole, Leader of Carmarthenshire Council published in this week's Herald. As you can see, they had to wait two months for a...
View ArticleThe Community Councillor and the wind farm...some thoughts
The local press have all covered the case of Community Councillor Heulwen Lewis who failed to declare a financial interest when the Brechfa Wind Farm was being discussed at a meeting of Llanfihangel ar...
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Asking a Public Question...
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 Herald has also tried to offer words of encouragement to curious...
View ArticleAffordable Homes - The 'Journey'
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 settle in for the long winter warmed by the company of new...
View ArticleSolar panels and historic settings...
A recent row over the council's refusal to allow a homeowner to keep solar panels on his barn roof continued today on BBC Wales news (not online). The row centres around the fact that the dwelling is a...
View ArticleOffloading Leisure Services - No opposition?
The Carmarthen Journal and the Llanelli Star have this week picked up on the council's plans to outsource leisure services to charities, trusts or arms length companies.I have been reporting on...
View ArticleCaebrwyn asks a question - the September agenda
Well, for the first time in living memory (almost) there are three Public Questions on next Wednesday's (9th September) full council agenda, and this one is mine;6.2 QUESTION BY MRS JACQUI THOMPSON TO...
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Carmarthenshire Council - Another six red cards
As I reported back in February, (see Six Red Cards) the claim, often made by our Glorious Leaders, past and present, that Carmarthenshire Council is the 'Best in Wales' and the envy of the western...
View ArticleThe Constitution and siege mentality
Next Wednesday's council meeting (9th Sept) is set to approve the limited changes to the Constitution decided at the Extraordinary meeting in June.Readers will recall the background to this. The...
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The Public Questions...and the 'best interests of the people of...
Update 10th September;I asked Plaid Cymru AM Rhodri Glyn Thomas for a reaction to the reply I received yesterday from Mark James deputy leader Cllr Jenkins (Plaid). Mr Thomas' comments in June that...
View Article£250 post-sixteen transport charge on its way
A joint scrutiny meeting next week will kick start a consultation on the introduction of charges for home to college/school transport for youngsters over sixteen from September next year. This was a...
View ArticlePembrey Paradise
The council press office has clearly been busy trawling the national press and unearthed an article praising the delights of Pembrey Country Park.By 'national press' I mean, of course, the 'VW Bus T4...
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