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 scrutinised the budget proposals for the council's corporate service areas for 2025-26. Scrutiny means the committee checks council plans before Cabinet decides. The Committee made four comments to Cabinet on savings in Revenue and Benefits, paper forms, and the printed Newport Matters publication.
On 21 January 2025 Newport City Council unanimously supported a motion to ban the release of helium balloons from council land. It also adopted a Council Tax Reduction Scheme for 2025/26, accepted a half-yearly treasury management report, approved the Governance and Audit Committee's annual report, made governing body appointments, changed the rules for questions to the Leader, adopted the 2025/26 meeting schedule, and supported Councillor Kate Thomas as Mayor for 2025/26.
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The Committee scrutinised the Place services part of Newport City Council's draft 2025/26 budget and Medium-Term Financial Plan, a plan of council spending over several years. Cabinet agreed these proposals for public consultation on 13 January 2025. Councillors questioned officers and made comments and recommendations to Cabinet on community centres, libraries, homelessness, home to school transport and grass cutting, and Cabinet will decide the final budget in February 2025.
On 14 January 2025 the Performance Scrutiny Committee - People considered the draft 2025-26 budget and Medium Term Financial Plan (a plan of spending and income over several years) for the council's People service areas. Members made comments and recommendations to pass to the Cabinet, including on community centre charges, short term care beds, community outreach and National Insurance increases. The Cabinet will consider consultation feedback before agreeing a final budget in February.
Cabinet agreed draft 2025/26 budget proposals, including a 6.7% council tax rise and new savings, for public consultation, with final decisions due in February. It also noted the forecast 2024/25 revenue and capital positions, approved publishing a notice to raise some roads from 20mph to 30mph, and agreed that an independent Panel Performance Assessment will take place in March 2026.
The Planning Committee considered its schedule of planning applications and a report on recent planning and enforcement appeals. The minute records a resolution that decisions be recorded as shown on the schedule, but the individual decisions on that schedule are not in the material available. Officers recommended refusing a 14-flat scheme at the former Robert Price Transport Yard, Corporation Road, Newport.