Swansea Council leader Rob Stewart is asking people to act responsibly when hospitality businesses welcome back customers from Monday. The Labour-led administration is imploring people to: Keep Swansea safe, after a relaxation of Welsh Government pandemic restrictions come in to force this week. It means that cafes, bars and restaurants can serve customers indoors. But […]
Free parking in Swansea city centre is being extended until the middle of August, thanks to the Labour-led administration. The Labour-led Council has been providing free parking in all city centre car parks since the start of the lockdown in March. Although many of the travel restrictions have been removed, the council has decided to […]
The Swansea Labour-led council has begun offering grants to help restaurants, bars and cafés re-open safely and serve food outside. The funding can be used to buy outdoor furniture, allowing hospitality traders to roll out services as government restrictions are gradually eased in the wake of the pandemic. Grants of up to £8,000 are available, […]
Residents in West Cross have had their streets brightened up by some special murals that have appeared on switchgear boxes around the area. Labour councillors for the ward, Des Thomas and Mark Child, have commissioned the work out of their councillor community budget. “As representatives of the residents of West Cross we thought it would […]
The Swansea Labour-led Council has launched a hard-hitting summer anti-littering campaign – Don’t be a Tosser – to encourage visitors and residents alike to take their rubbish home with them. Signs urging people not to toss their litter in the park, on the beach or on streets will be going up at locations across the […]
The Swansea Labour-led Council is expecting a positive announcement this month regarding significant investment in the city’s cycle network infrastructure. The Council is hoping to be successful after submitted a £6.9million bid to the Welsh Government’s Active Travel Fund earlier this year. The expected cash boost would follow previous successful bids that have seen £8.1million […]
The Labour council administration has pledged to continue the delivery of emergency food parcels to Swansea residents who have been told to shield until restrictions are lifted next month. The council is also working with the voluntary sector to ensure that the wide range of other support such as the collection of medication for vulnerable […]
A support package to help council-owned leisure services through the pandemic has been agreed by Swansea Council’s Labour Cabinet. The financial package will help ensure that highly-valued services at the LC and community leisure centres as well as Plantasia will be able to re-open safely as soon as the Welsh Government allows. All are managed […]
The Labour-led Swansea Council administration is getting ready for an overnight course of work which will switch eight key roads from one-way traffic to two-way – a situation they insist needed to happen. The dramatic improvement, being planned and managed by Council towards the end of July, will mean that the £12m Kingsway Infrastructure Project […]
Eastside Foodbank in Bonymaen has received a generous donation of £500 from Eastside Cabs. Brothers David and Lee Jones, co-owners of the taxi firm, handed over the cheque to local volunteer Janet Lewis saying that it was a pleasure to help out the foodbank. “We realise that in these unprecedented times that a lot of […]