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Changes to office opening hours are available here.
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- If you ride your off-road motor vehicle around Torfaen the chances are that you are breaking the law.
- If any services are disrupted due to the weather conditions we will update you here
- If you would like to discover how to trace your ancestors or find out about the local history of the area come along to these relaxed and informative Family History & Local History sessions at Blaenavon Library.
- Every day we make decisions about our lives. The ability to make decisions is called mental capacity. People may have difficulties making some decisions either all or some of the time.
- Following a series of major accidents and deaths at Sports Grounds, the need to ensure the safety of sports grounds became apparent. The Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975 placed this control with Local Authorities, and the Fire Safety and Safety of Places of Sports Act 1987 made it a duty of Local Authorities to enforce the Acts.
- This page provides results of the various elections that have taken place in Torfaen
- Your library is now available 24 hours a day over the Internet. The online catalogue allows you to search for items that are available at each of the libraries, review or renew items you have on loan and reserve items in stock
- Every year Torfaen Social Care and Housing undertake a carers' survey by writing to carers who have had a Carers Assessment within the year, to find out their views and opinions on the services they may have received. If you are a carer and would like to feedback your views then please contact the Commissioning Unit
- There are many reasons why some children cannot live with their birth parents. Adoption enables these children to be part of a family and provides them with a stable, secure and loving home in which to grow up and thrive.
- Kinship foster care, also called connected persons or family and friends care, means that children whose parents are unable to look after them on a short or long term basis are cared for by other relatives, like grandparents, uncles or siblings, or by other adults who have a connection to the child, such as neighbours or a close friend of the family.
- Business Rates (Non Domestic Rates) are payable on all business properties, whilst Council Tax is payable on all domestic properties. If your business includes both, i.e. you run a Public House, you will pay Business Rates on the business premises and Council Tax on your living accommodation.
- Torfaen County Borough Council are the Street Naming and Numbering Authority for the area, and carry out these functions under the provisions of the Public Health Act 1925 sections 17 -19.
Last Modified: 05/12/2018
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