Senior councillors have voiced concerns over the future of council capital programmes, with less funding expected to flow down locally in future years. As is usual the capital report before councillors notes the current snapshot of the programme, “a net increase of £1,183k compared with the projected expenditure reported to the Executive Board in July” […]
Wrexham Council are ‘pressing’ for Welsh Government to resolve a planning blockage that they say is preventing them from building ‘loads’ of new social housing. In a media brief earlier this week Cllr David Bithell was presenting a housing support plan strategy, which combines the council’s homeless strategy and the homeless support grant plan into […]
Welsh Government are being urged to ‘think long and hard’ on a tourism tax by Wrexham Council Leader Mark Pritchard. Welsh Government has opened a consultation on discretionary powers for local authorities to apply a visitor levy, something that has been branded a ‘tourism tax’ by critics and government itself. Welsh Government explain in the […]