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Council grant management 'weak' says the Wales Audit Office
With financial armageddon on its way to Welsh local authorities, Carmarthenshire, we are told, will have to 'save' somewhere in the region of £12m rather than the expected £5m next year. The 'drawing...
View ArticleLibel case - Notice of Appeal
Re; Jacqueline Thompson v (1) Mark James and (2) Carmarthenshire County CouncilThe Notice of Appeal was filed with the Court of Appeal on the 28th June 2013.I am appealing against the judgement handed...
View ArticleThe Worst Council in Wales...
Carmarthenshire Council is very fond of telling us that it is the best local authority in Wales, the envy of all others, of the world perhaps. Not everyone is convinced of course. Appearing on their...
View ArticleThe July meeting
A few of brief comments on yesterday's meeting, in no particular order. There's a link to the archived meeting at the end of this post;The council's PR Department, with it's £1m budget and substantial...
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Mercy Ministry coming to Carmarthen
One of the controversial issues concerning the relationship and between the evangelical Towy Community Church and Carmarthenshire Council, and documented on this blog and elsewhere was the church's...
View ArticleGenerous salaries and civic nonsense
It would appear that the Director of Technical Services at Carmarthenshire Council is retiring, I only happen to know that because the council is advertising the post which carries a generous salary of...
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Webcast stats - accessed 2757 times!
I have the webcast viewing stats for the three meetings so far, (I'm waiting for the 10th July archive figs) - In total they have been accessed 2757 times. The June and July 'live' figures are not...
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Mercy Ministry - Questions need to be asked
Further to my previous post, Mercy Ministry coming to Carmarthen and thanks to a commenter on Cneifiwr's blog, we now learn that the partnership between the Towy Community Church and the Council also...
View ArticleFilming council meetings in Wales - A Facebook page
Back briefly to the issue of members of the public being free to film and record open public meetings of their council.I have set up a Facebook page to encourage interested members of the public to...
View ArticlePembrey Park and Unison - Hysterics from the Press Office
Unison Carmarthenshire recently issued a press release raising their concerns that Carmarthenshire County Council might be about to sell off Pembrey Country Park and parts of the Llanelli coastline to...
View ArticleStradey development - Cllr Caiach writes to the Minister - Updated
Update 27 July: Carl Sargeant replied to Cllr Caiach yesterday and it seems to me that there is some question as to whether the work should have started at all:"Officials have requested written...
View ArticleFOI News - Business Management Group minutes - further delay
Way back in the spring, April 14th to be exact, I made a Freedom of Information request for minutes of Business Management Group meetings from 2011. My earlier post here, has all the background (scroll...
View ArticleIs there an Evangelist in the house?
More thoughts following Mercy Ministry coming to Carmarthen and Mercy Ministry - Questions need to be asked"We are proud to support Towy Community Church in its vision to create a multi-purpose life...
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Carmarthenshire Planning Tales
Back again to Carmarthenshire Council's planning department. Yesterday's BBC Wales news included a feature on the thorny issue of listed buildings and prosecutions, with special reference to...
View ArticleCommunity bulldozers
Another fine example of Carmarthenshire Council's 'community engagement' has yet again raised its dictatorial head. It concerns the latest 'draft' Supplementary Planning Guidance (part of the LDP...
View ArticleStradey saga - the early years
As the Stradey saga continues and the Scarlets are given headline billing for October's council meeting it's perhaps worth looking back again at a few of the early twists and turns of the whole...
View ArticleKev tears his hair out...
.....and attempts to replace it...The South Wales Guardian reported last week that Cwmamman Town Council had received a letter from Carmarthenshire Council asking them if they'd like to take over a...
View ArticleCo-opted members...and generous fees
Trawling through the Remuneration Schedule for Carmarthenshire Councillors and Co-opted Members 2013/2014, (as you do, and especially if you're a blogger and it's the middle of August), I looked at the...
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'Real progress' - Aren't we the judge of that?
Carmarthenshire councillors' individual Annual Reports are beginning to trickle out of County Hall. It's not compulsory but the council is now required by the Local Government Measure (Wales) 2011 to...
View ArticleA council petition? That's a bit rich.
Leader of the council Kevin Madge (Lab) has been busy recently promoting an epetition to make Western Power lay undergound cables joining the Brechfa wind farm to the national grid rather than overhead...
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