Cambria Politico - The Political Blog

Just who precisely is minister for rural housing ?

Last week, Elin Jones spoke in detail about the changes to rural planning through TAN (Technical Advisory Note) 6 which were on their way.

This week, deputy minister Jocelyn Davies waxed eloquent about her powers in housing, teasing predecessor Peter Black about why he made so little of [...]

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The issues surrounding new roads and their planning just never goes away as this latest message to their AMs from objectors to  the A494 widening in Deeside indicates.

The Parliamentary Planning Bill -Proposals for Infrastructure Planning Commission
This week in our Parliament, the government will propose a new “Planning Bill”. It seeks to “fast-track” the [...]

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Decades of uninterrupted political power almost always exacts its cost - usually in something that could look like corruption.

A background feeling that everything is not quite right back at the ranch was presumably a factor in Labour’s devastating losses in last month’s council elections.

Despite these losses, the party managed to hang onto control of [...]

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