2019

Planning » Application Summary Help with this page(opens in a new window) 18/0923/13 | Residential development including landscaping, drainage, access improvements and other associated infrastructure. | LAND OFF B4275, ABERAMAN, ABERDARE, CF44 6LJ   https://planning.rctcbc.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=externalDocuments&keyVal=_RHOND_DCAPR_53315   Details  Summary  Further Information  Contacts  Important Dates Publicity (0)  Constraints (4)  Related Cases (0)  Documents The proposals are submitted in outline form with all matters…

Westdale Services Limited has today been sentenced after a 12-year-old boy slipped off a scaffold ladder, falling approximately 10 metres. Cardiff Magistrates’ Court heard how, on 6 May 2017, two boys were able to climb the rungs of a ladder within scaffolding erected by Westdale Services Limited at Southville Flats, St David’s Road, Cwmbran, by…

Research for the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) shows that 300,000 more children will live in poverty in the UK because of the two-child limit, by the time Universal Credit is fully rolled out. CPAG says that the policy breaches the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), because it no longer…

Serious accidents are one of the most common causes of hospital admissions and a major cause of death for children. Child Safety Week aims to reduce the numbers of children seriously injured or killed, by supporting anyone working with children and families to understand and deliver effective accident prevention messages. This is why it is…

Transport for Wales has awarded law firm DLA Piper a contract worth an estimated £500,000 to provide expert legal and regulatory support and advice on matters relating to the bus industry. The support and advice services to be provided to TfW and the Welsh Ministers are to include: advice on options for bus service review…

The Welsh government should be proactive in developing a jurisdictional solution to the accommodation of Welsh law and the distinct needs of Wales without creating barriers for the operation of justice or the ability of practitioners to work across England and Wales, the Law Society has said. In a submission to the Commission on Justice…

In one of the largest fly-tipping cases ever investigated within the County Borough, Rhondda Cynon Taf Council has successfully prosecuted two local men who illegally dumped large amounts of household and commercial waste. Ronnie Junior Jones, aged 29, of Maxwell Street, Ferndale, and Luke Samuel Davies, aged 27, of Brithweunydd Road, Trealaw, were sentenced at…

The Royal College of Physicians has today (Friday 12 April) published its response to the Welsh government consultation on Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales, its draft strategy to prevent and reduce obesity (attached).   Key recommendations from the RCP Cymru Wales response    ·        All patients with obesity should have access to a resourced, patient-centred and…

Welsh Conservative Shadow Education Minister Suzy Davies AM has spoken out today as the Welsh Government attempts to defend its poor record on education and school funding. She said: “The Welsh Labour-led Government receives £1.20 per pupil compared to £1 per pupil in England and yet they actually spend less than the Conservative UK Government per pupil….

The union representing chief executives and senior managers in local government has hit out at the government’s draft regulations for the proposed introduction of the £95,000 cap on public sector exit payments. Earlier this week the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Liz Truss, launched a consultation on how the cap will be introduced. The UK Civil Service,…