Meetings
Every meeting of Cardiff Council's committees. Meetings of the full Council, the Cabinet, scrutiny and planning committees get a plain-language summary once their minutes are published.
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The Cabinet is the leader and a small group of senior councillors who make most day-to-day decisions. More in the guide
Cabinet chose a Workplace Parking Levy as its preferred road user payment option and agreed to consult the public before any final decision. It noted a temporary increase of 60 Year 7 places at Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf for 2027/28. It approved buying 60 social rented homes and a community centre at Medallion House in Cathays, subject to conditions. It also approved the plan for re-commissioning housing support for young people and the Annual Property Plan, and sent three annual reports to Full Council.
Cabinet considered three main items. It recommended that Council approve the Welsh Language Standards Annual Report 2025-26 and related policies. It approved a competitive tender for Phase 1a of the Cardiff to Newport Sustainable Transport Corridor, including Kingsway improvements. It noted the 2025/26 budget outturn, which ended balanced.
It approved joint committee appointments for 2026/27, agreed a five-year youth work strategy and approved the Regeneration Strategy 2025-2030. It also let officers publish formal proposals to expand places for children with additional learning needs, and agreed steps on the Cardiff Capital Region Investment Zone.
Cabinet considered the draft Corporate Plan 2026-29, a climate review under One Planet Cardiff, the Month 9 budget monitoring report and the 2026/27 budget. Cabinet agreed to recommend the Corporate Plan and the budget to full Council on 5 March 2026, including a 3.9% Council Tax rise. It also approved a Green Growth Proposition on local renewable energy and home energy retrofit.
It agreed to lower the quorum (the minimum number of members needed to hold a meeting) for the National Joint Committee for adoption and fostering services, agreed a Migrant Care Workers Charter for commissioned care, and approved buying land at Central Quay for council homes and a new procurement framework for non-domestic building work. It also agreed to start an engagement exercise on Welsh-medium secondary school places, and noted several annual reports.
Cabinet met on 8 January 2026 to note an updated budget position for 2026/27 and agreed a public consultation on the budget, which runs until 1 February 2026. It also delegated authority to officers to submit Cardiff's proforma to join the UK Government's Pride in Place programme, with Ely and Caerau put forward as the strongest candidate neighbourhood.
Cabinet met on 18 December 2025 and approved the Neurodivergent Friendly Cardiff Strategy 2025-2030 and the expansion of Ysgol Gymraeg Coed-Y-Gof to include a nursery. It also approved consultations on new specialist places for children with additional learning needs, the draft Regeneration Strategy and changes to the social housing allocation scheme. Other decisions covered starting a procurement for a new operator of Cardiff Riding School, setting the 2026/27 Council Tax Base, and approving the approach to council housing rents and service charges for 2026/27, which the report based on a rise of up to 4.3%.
Cabinet met on 20 November 2025 and considered six substantive items: additions to the Cardiff Local Heritage List, the 2025 air quality report, the Replacement Local Development Plan (RLDP), the month 6 budget, the treasury management mid-year report and a proposed visitor levy. Cabinet approved the heritage list additions and the air quality report for submission to Welsh Government, agreed to forward the RLDP to Council, and noted the budget and treasury reports. It agreed to recommend that Council approve a consultation on a visitor levy, with a final decision due in March 2026.
Cabinet met on 16 October 2025 and considered ten substantive items. It approved the Social Services Annual Report for Council, agreed that Cardiff take on the lead role for the Connect to Work employment programme, approved a City Parking Plan and a Cardiff Inclusion Strategy, and started the replacement of the Council's main back-office computer systems. It also supported a bid to host matches in the 2035 Women's World Cup, noted the complaints and corporate risk reports, and approved a housing support commissioning plan.
Cabinet met on 18 September 2025 and considered 11 substantive items. It approved an updated Advertising and Sponsorship Policy, a plan to extend the age range of Ysgol Gymraeg Coed-Y-Gof to include nursery pupils, a Digital Strategy for 2025 to 2030, and the 2025/26 Annual Property Plan. It also noted a projected overspend of £3.818 million for 2025/26 and a budget gap of £38.4 million for 2026/27, and it agreed to stop the search for a replacement contractor at Fairwater Community Campus.
Cabinet met on 10 July 2025. It approved a public consultation on a neurodivergent strategy, a continued partnership for the Joint Equipment Service, and a new policy to fund home adaptations for foster and kinship carers. It also approved a new shared cycle hire scheme, a Socially Responsible Procurement Policy, a masterplan and temporary Gypsy Traveller site at Pengam Green, a response to a scrutiny report on filming, £6.7m for City Hall repairs, and a car parking regime and energy procurement at the International Sports Village.
Cabinet agreed to recommend that Council approve the Welsh Language Standards Annual Report, and agreed new principles for older people's care. Other items were for noting.
Cabinet met on 15 May 2025. It made appointments to joint committees, adopted a Corporate Parenting Strategy and a Local Flood Risk Strategy, approved a Corporate Safeguarding Policy, and approved the council's response to a Senedd consultation on bus reform. It also changed how cladding work on two high-rise blocks will be procured and awarded a building contract for the first block at Channel View.
It approved a learning disability strategy and a new day centre at Oak House, St Mellons, subject to grant funding, and a draft Play Sufficiency Assessment for public consultation. It also extended the passenger transport procurement system to 2028, agreed that the council will run its own school improvement services, and recommended a pay policy statement to full Council.
The Trusts Cabinet Committee considered how the Council runs the trusts it acts for as corporate trustee. It adopted a new Conflicts of Interest Policy and delegated routine trust matters to officers, while keeping significant decisions with the Committee.
Cabinet met on 27 February 2025 and considered six substantive items. It recommended a 2025/26 budget that raises Council Tax by 4.95%, and it approved the draft Corporate Plan 2025-28 for Council and the refreshed Housing Support Programme Strategy. It also noted a projected 2024/25 overspend of £2.392 million, approved further work on a Green Growth Proposition, and approved starting a procurement for a neutral vendor managed service framework.
It approved the Replacement Local Development Plan Deposit Plan for public consultation, approved moving Lansdowne Primary School to the former Fitzalan High School site, and approved the Corporate Property Strategy 2025-30. It also approved selling the former Toys R Us site for a Top Golf attraction in the International Sports Village, and noted an update on plans to expand Cathays High School.
Cabinet noted an estimated budget gap of £49.726 million and agreed a formal consultation running from 9 January to 5 February 2025, with the results to inform its final budget proposal. Cabinet also received a scrutiny letter, but no minute of its content has been published yet.
Cabinet met on 12 December 2024 and considered eight substantive items, ranging from air quality and school admissions to council tax, council housing and licensing. Its main decisions were to approve the 2025/26 council tax base, approve the proposed approach to council rent setting for 2025/26, appoint a preferred bidder and approve development sites for a new housing partnership, and delegate regulatory functions under the Public Health (Wales) Act 2017.
Cabinet met on 21 November 2024 and considered eleven items. It approved a revised whistleblowing policy, a strategy for children's care homes, and protection for eleven parks and green spaces. It also agreed a new direction for school improvement and noted the month 6 budget forecast of a £6.355 million overspend, along with reports on complaints, treasury management and other services. The minute for the last item, scrutiny letters, has not yet been published.
Cabinet met on 24 October 2024 to consider the Core Office Strategy, a plan for new council offices. It approved the Full Business Case in principle, subject to final costs being confirmed at a later meeting, and approved the appointment of a 'Successful Bidder' to deliver the new offices. Parts of two appendices are withheld from publication because they contain exempt information.
Cabinet met on 17 October 2024 to consider nine reports, including the Shared Prosperity Fund, budget monitoring and the Atlantic Wharf regeneration. Main decisions: Cabinet approved a build contract for a new car park at Atlantic Wharf and pre-contract design costs, approved a £1.63 million loan for a heritage building project in central Cardiff, and agreed how to finish Fairwater Community Campus after its main contractor, ISG Construction Ltd, went into administration.
Cabinet also agreed to buy more properties for temporary accommodation to meet rising homelessness demand, and to delegate officers the power to handle the purchases and respond to a homelessness consultation.
Cabinet noted the well-being report and recommended it to the full Council for approval, approved the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and the Age Friendly Action Plan, and noted the corporate risk register.
Cabinet met on 18 July 2024. It agreed to raise charges for non-residential adult care in line with the Welsh Government maximum, adopted a national Corporate Parenting Charter, approved publication of the Cardiff Local Area Energy Plan, and approved a consultation on football pitch provision. It also agreed principles for the 2025/26 budget and approved the 2024/25 Annual Property Plan.
Cabinet met on 20 June 2024. It approved changes to additional learning needs provision in schools without modification, after one objection to a proposed specialist resource base at Fairwater Primary School.