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The county council was abolished in 1996 and Blaenau Gwent became a principal area with county borough status, with the council taking over the functions previously performed by the county council. [4] Borough status allows Blaenau Gwent to give the chair of the council the title of mayor.
Blaenau Gwent was reconstituted in 1996 as a county borough, taking over the county-level functions from the abolished Gwent County Council. At the same time Llanelly was transferred to the reconstituted Monmouthshire. The area is now governed by Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council, which is a principal council. [7]
Children as old as eight are not fully toilet trained and missing lessons as a result, a union leader has said. Blaenau Gwent council has said teachers will no longer change pupils who have wet or ...
There are 12 communities in Blaenau Gwent since the creation of Garnlydan in 2021, with Tredegar being both the largest and the most populated one. Five of them have a community council: Brynmawr (town council), Nantyglo and Blaina (town council), Tredegar (town council), and Abertillery and Llanhilleth (who share a single community council). [1]
This is a list of the political leaders of Welsh council areas. District Style Council majority Council leader Blaenau Gwent: County borough Welsh Labour Steve Thomas ...
Plans to build five 180m (590ft) high wind turbines on land at Cefn Manmoel common near Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, have now been given the go-ahead by the Welsh government. ... including by Blaenau ...
As part of the 2022 local elections in Wales on 5 May 2022, the 33 seats of Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council were up for election. The previous full council election took place in May 2017 . Results summary
Blaenau Gwent incorporates most of the area of Aneurin Bevan's old constituency and other areas as population expansion has been low or negative following the 1960s. The constituency was created in 1983, twenty-three years after Bevan's death, from the upper part of the former Abertillery constituency, the town of Brynmawr from Brecon and Radnor, and Bevan's old Ebbw Vale seat with the ...