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.
Loading
It also agreed school governing body appointments, began the process to recruit three lay members to the Standards Committee, and swore in Councillor Deb Harvey as Mayor.
Cabinet met on 18 May 2026. It approved the use of council reserves and a capital project before the June meetings, agreed to seek expressions of interest for the future of Newport Stadium, and approved an indemnity deed with Tai Hedyn Limited (Hedyn) covering pension liabilities for former council staff.
The Planning Committee met on 6 May 2026 to take decisions on planning applications and noted a report on recent planning appeals. The minutes record that decisions should be recorded as shown in an appendix, but that appendix for this meeting was not in the papers, so individual decisions are not reported here. The appeals report covered three appeals, all dismissed, including one the committee had refused against officer advice.
Cancelled
Cancelled
Cancelled
The Planning Committee on 1 April 2026 considered its planning application schedule and a report on recent planning appeals. The minute records that decisions should be recorded as shown in Appendix A, but the appendix supplied is the schedule for 4 March 2026, so the individual April decisions cannot be listed here. Members noted the appeals report for information.
Cancelled
The Performance Scrutiny Committee - Partnerships considered its annual update on Newport Live, the charity that runs the council's leisure, sport and theatre services, covering 2024-25. Members asked for a site visit, asked officers to report better on engagement data for the Momentum initiative, and asked that Newport Live's city events work be shown more clearly in future reports.