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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The Committee looked at Newport City Council's Rapid Rehousing Transition Plan, which aims to make homelessness rare, brief and unrepeated. The minute records five recommendations and requests from the Committee, but no decision to approve the plan. The Committee also reviewed actions from earlier meetings and recommended that all actions and outcomes be made easily and publicly accessible.
The plan sets out how the council intends to prevent poverty, support people who are in poverty and create routes out of it. Councillors made nine comments and recommendations, including more detail on credit unions, ward-level deprivation data, more action on homelessness, and progress reports before the end of the council term. The minute does not record that the committee approved the strategy.
It recorded decisions on three planning applications, all granted with conditions, and noted a report on recent planning appeal decisions. The minutes record no declarations of interest.
Full Council met on 25 February 2025. It agreed the 2025/26 budget, including a 6.7% rise in Newport's share of Council Tax, and approved the Capital Strategy and Treasury Management Strategy. It also backed two business rate relief schemes, updated the Council's Contract Standing Orders (the rules for buying goods and services), and made appointments to school governing bodies and outside bodies.
The Performance Scrutiny Committee - Place and Corporate considered two items: the Highway Asset Management Plan 2024-2029 and the draft Newport Culture Strategy 2025-2035. On both, the Committee made recommendations to the Cabinet Member. These cover road repair data, streetlight fault feedback, sharing the capital programme, planning-agreement funding, a more visual Culture Strategy, future projections and performance measures. The minutes record no other decisions.
Cabinet met on 12 February 2025 to finalise the 2025/26 budget and Medium-Term Financial Plan, a forecast of spending and funding over several years, and to recommend the Council Tax rate to full Council on 25 February. It also recommended the 2025/26 Capital Strategy and Treasury Management Strategy to Council and approved a rolling capital programme for 2025/26 to 2029/30. The Leader announced the resignation of Councillor P Drewett, Cabinet Member for Communities and Poverty Reduction, and colleagues will share the portfolio until it is filled.
Cancelled
The minute records that the Committee was advised of these matters and records no decisions. The next meeting is set for 30 April 2025, with updates on the South East Wales Adoption Service and the Fostering Service.
The Committee considered the Council's 2025-26 budget and medium-term financial plan, focusing on how the budget was prepared and how the public was consulted. It made comments and recommendations, including asking for a later report on the consultation results and for future budget consultations to start after Christmas. It also considered routine scrutiny reports on outstanding actions and the work programme.