Planning & Development
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- Five local authorities in Gwent have been awarded a share of £459,000 by the Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) to install a total of 65 fast charge points across 34 sites.
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- Torfaen Council wants to speak to all Gypsy and Traveller families about their accommodation needs.
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- The Blaenavon Townscape Heritage Programme (THP) is underway, and the first building to benefit from funding has been completed.
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- The council is preparing a review of the Local Development Plan (LDP) which will identify where new developments will go for the next 15 years.
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- Seven spectacular trees have been shortlisted for this year's Wales Tree of the Year competition, including one in Pontypool Park.
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- Five Gwent sites named as Discovery Gateways will share more than £2 million Valleys Taskforce funding to maximise the potential of the area's natural and cultural assets, as part of the Valleys Regional Park.
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- Ryan Smart, 19, from Cwmbran is a carpentry apprentice who has benefitted from National Lottery funding through the Blaenavon Townscape Heritage Programme (THP).
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- Monday marked the opening of One2One Mortgage Solutions in Pontypool town centre.
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- A Grade II listed chapel in Blaenavon will be transformed into a community hub thanks to a £303k investment.
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- There is just over a week to go for developers, landowners, organisations and the public to submit sites that could be included for new development, re-development or protection within a new Local Development Plan for Torfaen.
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- Torfaen residents are being invited to have their say on a proposed 'master plan' for the future of the British site in Talywain.
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- Torfaen council is calling for developers, landowners, organisations and the public to submit sites that could be included for new development, re-development or protection within a new Local Development Plan.
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- Residents are invited to view and comment on a draft 'master plan' for the British site in Talywain at a series of workshops.
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- Residents and other stakeholders are being asked to comment on a draft plan that will guide the management of the Blaenavon Industrial Landscape World Heritage Site until 2023.
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- Torfaen council is inviting residents to have their say on the future conservation of Blaenavon town centre.
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- A Facebook trader from Garndiffaith, Pontypool has pleaded guilty to 19 separate trade mark charges relating to the sale and possession for sale of nearly 100 counterfeit items following a Torfaen Trading Standards investigation.
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- Torfaen councillors will be asked to buy the former iron works site known as The British at a council meeting on October 18.
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- Work to improve two watercourse culverts at the Byways and Penmaes Road in Greenmeadow, Cwmbran, is to begin following grant funding received from Welsh Government.
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- Torfaen and Blaenau Gwent Trading Standards are warning residents of possible scammers claiming to be local Trading Standards officers.
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- A drop in session for residents to find out more about Glamorgan Power's plans for the land at Varteg Hill is being held at Varteg community hall on Thursday 22 January.
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- Torfaen council has introduced charges for pre-application planning advice for anyone seeking an opinion before making a planning application.
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- Cwmbran's status as one of the UK's most successful 'new towns' is the focus of a prestigious planning conference
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- Torfaen's planning service stars in a new series of the fly on the wall BBC Two documentary Permission Impossible: Britain's Planners
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- Torfaen council has won a national award for its conservation of Llanyrafon Manor.
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- An EU funding boost of more than £340,000 has been awarded to bring a significant building in Pontypool town centre back to its former glory.
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- A £2.3M project to regenerate Pontypool Market has been launched.
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- One of Wales' oldest iron bridges was officially reopened today following a massive restoration project.
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- A project to regenerate Pontypool town centre has won a prestigious civil engineering award.
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- New public art has been installed in Pontypool as part of a major regeneration project
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- Blaenavon World Heritage Site celebrates restoration of one of Wales' oldest iron bridges
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- An iconic Pontypool building has reopened its doors to the public for the first time in years thanks to a £265,000 refurbishment.
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- An iconic building in Pontypool town centre has benefited from 10 month transformation.
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- Torfaen councillors have reinstated the South Sebastopol Strategic Area into the council's Local Development Plan (LDP).
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- Would you like to learn more about the regeneration projects taking place in and around Pontypool (the Pontypool Settlement Area Project) and put forward your views and thoughts on designing a new brand for Pontypool?
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- This is your chance to get involved in the future design of Pontypool town centre.
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- Torfaen's cabinet will be asked to approve negotiations on the future of The British site in Talywain
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