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Carmarthenshire Council

CARMARTHENSHIRE: County lands £2.1m for care housing, but where it goes is a secret for now

The Welsh Government has confirmed to Swansea Bay News that £2.1m of today's £2.3m Housing with Care Fund announcement comes…

Two coaches and college minibuses parked in front of the long low Coleg Sir Gâr building in Ammanford, with cars in the car park and a stone wall by the road
Carmarthenshire Council

SCHOOL BUS SHAKE-UP: Catchment-only free transport signed off for 2027

Carmarthenshire's cabinet has approved the policy ending free transport to your nearest school where it isn't your catchment school, taking…

A man paying at a blue pay-and-display machine in John Street car park, Carmarthen, with parked cars and houses on the hillside behind
car parking

CARMARTHENSHIRE: Free hour agreed for every council car park, and the towns’ free parking days are gone

The cabinet has signed off the county's new parking strategy: first hour free in all 67 council car parks, charges…

New houses under construction at Dylan in Llanelli, with timber-framed homes, scaffolding and a crane on site
Burry Inlet

LLANELLI: Want to build ten homes? Find 80 square metres of someone else’s rainwater first

New planning rules for Llanelli and Burry Port would make every major scheme take existing rainwater out of the sewers…

Aerial masterplan graphic of Burry Port harbour with labelled sites including A1 Food Store Opportunity, Commercial Leisure Opportunity, Enterprise Village and Residential Site
Burry Port

BURRY PORT: The land Tesco never built on is up for grabs, and a supermarket is back on the cards

Carmarthenshire Council is inviting developers to bid for the 3.7-acre field by the station, with its own planning advice saying…

Fruit and vegetables displayed on the WD Seward and Sons stall inside Llanelli's indoor market, with produce stalls and a shopper along the aisle
Andrew Scott Ltd

LLANELLI: Market traders push back on upstairs stalls, saying every one they asked said no

A letter from one of the indoor market's businesses to councillors challenges a claimed 85 to 90 per cent trader…

An excavator and dump trucks lined along the quay at Burry Port Harbour, with a red fishing boat aground on the drained harbour bed below
Burry Port

BURRY PORT: 57,000 cubic metres of sand gone as harbour diggers finish on Wednesday

Mechanical dredging ends on 9 September with a new deeper channel cut to the estuary, before a specialist vessel arrives…

A man paying at a blue pay-and-display machine in John Street car park, Carmarthen, with parked cars and houses on the hillside behind
car parking

CARMARTHENSHIRE: First hour free in every council car park, but the towns’ free parking days face the axe

Monday's cabinet report proposes a free first hour then a flat rate in all 67 council car parks, with cheaper…

Two coaches and college minibuses parked in front of the long low Coleg Sir Gâr building in Ammanford, with cars in the car park and a stone wall by the road
Carmarthenshire Council

SCHOOL BUS SHAKE-UP: Nearest school? Not any more. Carmarthenshire to scrap free transport to anywhere but your catchment school

Hundreds of Carmarthenshire families would lose the free bus to their nearest school from 2027, and Amman Valley sixth-formers would…

A row of new stone and render houses on the Maes Pedr estate in Carmarthen West
Affordable Housing

CARMARTHEN: Additional 84 homes approved on fields off A40 near Travellers Rest

The next piece of the 1,100-home Carmarthen West scheme goes on the land between the A40 Travellers Rest junction and…