Meetings
Every meeting of Newport City 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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Newport City Council met on 15 July 2025. It agreed changes to school governing body appointments and unanimously supported a motion on promoting neurodiversity inclusivity. It noted reports on treasury management, the Anti-Poverty Strategy, corporate safeguarding, the Affordable Housing Prospectus and the Scrutiny Annual Report, and heard a police update for East, West and Central Newport.
Cancelled
Cabinet met on 9 July 2025 to consider seven reports on the council's plans and services, covering capital spending, the Welsh language, community safety, housing, poverty, safeguarding and city centre placemaking. It approved or adopted all seven, and passed the Welsh Language and safeguarding reports to Full Council. The meeting also approved an amendment to a June decision on the school building programme.
The committee considered the 2024/25 year-end reviews for the Education and Children's Services plans. It was content with both reports and asked for further information on the Community Parenting Strategy, the Children's Services review and residential homes.
At its meeting on 7 July 2025, the Performance Scrutiny Committee (Place and Corporate) examined the 2024-25 end of year reviews for four council service areas: Regeneration and Economic Development, Environment and Public Protection, Infrastructure, and Housing and Communities. Members asked officers for more information and made recommendations on issues including anti-social behaviour, fly-tipping, waste collection, footway maintenance, active travel and traffic calming. The minute records requests and recommendations from the Committee, not decisions by the full council.
The Planning Committee met on 2 July 2025 to consider its planning application schedule and to note recent planning appeal decisions. The minute for the schedule records a resolution that decisions be recorded as shown on the attached schedule, and authorises the Planning and Development Manager to draft changes to conditions or reasons for refusal. The minute does not list individual application decisions, and the schedule supplied with it is dated 4 June 2025.
Cancelled
The Overview and Scrutiny Management Committee considered two reports: the Annual Information Risk Report 2024-25, on how the Council protects the data it holds, and the Climate Change Plan Annual Report 2024-25, on progress against the Council's climate plan. For both, the Committee made recommendations and said it was content with the report.
Its main business was the annual report of the Safer Newport Community Safety Partnership, a group of local agencies working together on crime and safety, and the Committee made comments and recommendations on it. The Committee also received scrutiny adviser updates on actions, its work programme and outcomes, and accepted the minutes of the previous meeting.
The Committee considered the Learning Disability Independent Living Strategy 2023-28, which sets out how the council will support adults with learning disabilities to live more independently. It made a series of recommendations to Cabinet and said it was content with the Strategy. It also noted actions arising from earlier meetings and the forward work programme for the coming year.
At its meeting on 16 June 2025, the Performance Scrutiny Committee, a group of councillors that checks the council's work, considered the draft Local Housing Prospectus 2025/26 and the draft Newport Placemaking Plan for the city centre. For both items the Committee recorded recommendations: a clear timeframe and review process for the housing document, and a governance structure, measures and a communication strategy for the placemaking plan.
At its meeting on 12 June 2025, the Overview and Scrutiny Management Committee considered the draft Welsh Language Annual Monitoring Report 2024-25 and the draft Scrutiny Annual Report 2024-25. It recommended adding a column on unknown Welsh language skills to a staff table, and making the scrutiny report's Getting Involved section more visually striking. It was content with both reports.
Cabinet met on 9 June 2025 to consider the council's budget outturn, treasury management, procurement, corporate risks, the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, the 2027 Eisteddfod yr Urdd, an inspection of adult social services and school building plans. Cabinet also adopted a new procurement strategy for 2025 to 2030, approved an extra £100,000 for the 2027 Eisteddfod yr Urdd at Tredegar House, and delegated school building project decisions to the Head of Education.
The Planning Committee met on 4 June 2025 to decide planning applications. Four councillors sent apologies, and the committee confirmed the minutes of its 7 May meeting. The committee resolved that decisions be recorded as shown on the planning applications schedule, and authorised the planning manager to draft any changes to conditions or reasons for refusal.
Cancelled
Cancelled
It appointed Councillor Dimitri Batrouni as Leader, announced his Cabinet and the opposition's shadow roles, and agreed committee chairs, committee seats, outside body places and school governing body places. Councillor Kate Thomas was sworn in as Mayor of Newport for 2025 to 2026.