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Councillor Receives Threats Over Fly-Grazing Issue

A Pembrokeshire county councillor has received threats after raising concerns about an ongoing issue of loose horses and fly-grazing in the county. The county has...

Barn Conversion For Pensioners

Plans to convert a redundant 19th century north Pembrokeshire farm building to a three-bedroom home to provide improved accommodation for two pensioners with serious...

Could Boost In Funding Lead To Lower Council Tax?

A better-than-expected financial settlement from the Welsh Government could lead to a reduction in the near-10 per cent council tax rise being mooted by...

Appeal Against Previously Refused Caravan Park Expansion Fails

An appeal to overturn a previously-refused scheme to expand a Pembrokeshire caravan park using high quality agricultural land currently used as a golf course...

Legal Challenge To Holiday Park Scheme Successful

Plans for a Pembrokeshire holiday park extension, backed by councillors in 2023 despite repeated officer recommendations for refusal, may now have to be revisited...

Full Council Decision Needed Regarding Holiday Pods

Plans for £2.3m disability-friendly holiday lodges at a Pembrokeshire deer park attraction have been backed for a second time, but a final decision will...

Solar Farm Site Visit

Pembrokeshire planners are to visit the site of a proposed solar farm which would provide power for nearly 3,300 homes after concerns were raised...

Farm Barn Attraction Approved

A Pembrokeshire farm barn attraction, which gained a 3,500-strong petition of support after a previous refusal, has been approved after an agreement was reached...

Car Valet Becomes Barber Shop/Tanning Salon

Retrospective plans to change a Pembrokeshire car sales/valet area to include a barber shop and tanning salon have been submitted to the county council. Zizo...

School Cachments Call In

A special meeting is to be held to re-visit a decision by senior Pembrokeshire councillors to maintain school catchment areas for Johnston, Neyland and...

Plans For New Tenby Station Bridge Submitted

Plans for a new disability-friendly railway bridge at Tenby’s Victorian station have been submitted to the national park. The Network Rail application at the Warren...

Call To Change School Catchment Areas Fails

A call to review school catchment areas, allowing school pupils from Johnston, Tiers Cross and Neyland access to free school transport to the nearby...

Retro Classroom Scheme Gets Approval

A call to allow a Pembrokeshire school to keep a mobile classroom in use for nearly 16 years, as there is no money for...

Councillor To Vote On Call For Him Not To Be Employed...

A senior member of Pembrokeshire County Council will be able to speak and vote for himself in a forthcoming call for him not to...

Council Tax Court Summons Call To Cabinet

While the bleak February winds blow across the land ahead of hopefully better weather in Spring, senior Pembrokeshire councillors discussed a Christmas festive cheer...

Prendergast By-Election

A planning policy which aims to ensure nearly 2,000 new affordable homes are built in Carmarthenshire has taken a step forward. The affordable housing supplementary...

Council Overspend Drops to £2.1m

Pembrokeshire County Council is expected to overspend by just over £2m, down from previous predictions of nearly £4m, with £10m pressure on the council...

New Lidl Store Amendments Approved

Amendments to a recently-granted scheme for a replacement Lidl store in Milford Haven, which will be nearly a half bigger and employ up to...

Composite Company Expansion

Plans for the expansion of a Pembrokeshire specialist composite company, which employs more than 100 people, and has contracts in the civil airline industry,...

South Wales Police Precept Increase Approved

The amount people pay to South Wales Police will go up by more than 7% in the next financial year. Emma Wools, Police and Crime...

Council Tax Rise Options Include 16.58% Rise

Council tax in Pembrokeshire could rise by nearly 17 per cent this year, adding more than £250 to the annual bill, in a series...

Solar Farm Scheme

The early stages of a scheme for a potential 20MW solar farm just a mile from Haverfordwest which it is said would provide power...

Pilot Caravan Refused

A call to allow a static caravan to remain on agricultural land as accommodation for the applicants’ pilot daughter, and as AirBnB accommodation, has...

Allotment Scheme Approval

A call by a Pembrokeshire town council to be allowed to site allotments on a county council-owned derelict play area has been given the...

Final Steps For Power Station Battery Scheme

A scheme for a battery storage facility near Pembroke Power Station which it is said will put the county at “the forefront of South...

Application To Rebuild Riverside Wall

An application to rebuild a weather-damaged riverside wall at a historic Pembrokeshire mill and museum, now a restaurant, have been submitted to national park...

Call To Allow House To Replace Chalet

A call to allow a Pembrokeshire chalet built without permission, but previously allowed to be kept in use as a home, to be replaced...

Equine Sand School

Previously refused plans to allow a Pembrokeshire student permission to develop a sand school for ‘breaking’ horses at his family farm have been approved...

Airbnb Conversion Without Permission Allowed To Stay

A call to allow an airbnb beach hut once sited on a Dorset sandbank to continue to be used for holiday accommodation on the...

Former Councillor’s Pub Plan Cancelled

Plans to expand and update a well-known Pembrokeshire seaside village pub to “restore some historical character and originality” by a former county councillor who...

Police To Receive Near Additional 9% Of Council Budgets

The police part of the council tax bill in Dyfed and Powys is expected to rise by nearly nine per cent, meaning the average...

Cottage Extension A No Go?

Plans to adapt an outbuilding at a north Pembrokeshire cottage, which has had two previous extensions, to provide additional space for visiting family members...

Farm Shed Approval?

A call to let a 950-herd north Pembrokeshire dairy farm keep a farm shed built without permission over a decade ago is expected to...

Long Course Weekend To Keep Southern Route

Pembrokeshire’s annual Long Course Weekend triathlon event will keep the same southern route for this year but next year could see changes to the...

£12 Million Levelling Up Scheme For Pembroke

Senior Pembrokeshire councillors have backed a near-£12m ‘levelling up’ project to rejuvenate parts of Pembroke, with £1.2m of council funds. At the January 13 meeting...

Potential Housing Scheme At Penally Camp

The early stages of plans for a potential housing scheme at a Pembrokeshire military training camp, controversially used to house asylum seekers, have been...

First Stage Of Affordable Housing Scheme Approved

The first phase of a scheme for 67 affordable homes in a Pembrokeshire village by housing group Ateb is expected to get the go-ahead...

Long Course Weekend

Pembrokeshire’s annual south county Long Course Weekend triathlon event will likely keep the same route for this year rather than use a potential alternative...

Deer Park Holiday Lodges Expected To Be Refused Again

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Resubmitted £2m plans for wheelchair accessible holiday lodges at the site of a Pembrokeshire deer park attraction are again being recommended to be refused. In...

Affordable Seaside Housing Scheme Clears Final Hurdle

The “final hurdle” of plans by one of the UK’s largest housebuilders to build 72 homes, 25 of them affordable, on the outskirts of...

4G Phone Mast Removed

Plans for a replacement 20-metre-high 4G phone mast tower in north Pembrokeshire, which the local town council says would have “an unacceptable adverse impact”...

‘State Of Disrepair’ House To Be Converted To Cafe

Plans by a village shop owner to convert a house “in a state of disrepair” to a café to “improve the variety of community...

Final Sign-Off For 52 Homes Scheme

The final stage of approval for a near-£10m Pembrokeshire residential development of 52 homes has been given the go-ahead. Back in April, members of Pembrokeshire...

Portfield School Respite Facility Approved

Plans for a respite care facility at Haverfordwest’s Portfield special school have been approved. An application to Pembrokeshire County Council by Morgan Sindall Group, on...

Charity’s Plans For Veteran Flats

A call to build flats for armed forces veterans on a former Pembrokeshire school yard/playing field next to veterans’ charity the VC Gallery has...

Hopes Fire-Ravaged School Will Be Rebuilt By 2026

A south Pembrokeshire school devastated by fire more than two years ago is expected to cost some £2.6m to reinstate, with hopes it will...

Special Farming Role For Deputy Leader

An official special farming role for Pembrokeshire’s deputy leader is to be established following a call made to full council, the first time the...

Flooding Communication Question Sent To Cabinet

Calls to improve the communication of road closures at a regularly flood-hit road at the entrance to Tenby are to be heard by senior...

Flooding Communication Call

Calls to improve the communication of road closures at a regularly flood-hit road at the entrance to Tenby are to be heard later this...

Police Station Move Plans

An application to move Pembroke Dock’s police station from its “no longer fit for purpose” Water Street location to a former council building has...
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