Swansea Labour are encouraging residents across the city to recycle their pumpkins following the recent Halloween celebrations. Thousands of pumpkins are likely to have been carved into lanterns and Swansea Council is urging households to utilise kerbside food waste recycling service to dispose of them. Labour Cllr Mark Thomas, Cabinet Member for Environment and Infrastructure […]
Two local Labour councillors and a Friends Group have joined forces to donate around £8,000 to install child-friendly fencing at a play area at Dunvant Park. Cllrs Louise Gibbard and Jennifer Raynor, and Friends of Dunvant Park provided the funds from Council Community Budgets and fundraising respectively. One of the Friends of Dunvant Park […]
As part of this year’s 50th anniversary city status celebrations, the Swansea Labour-led Council fireworks display will be free to all and will take place on Swansea Beach. Labour Cllr Robert Francis-Davies, the council’s cabinet member for investment, regeneration and tourism, said: “This great sociable occasion will have a real wow factor in a safe, family-friendly […]
The Swansea Labour-controlled Council has started work on a 1.4km off-road cycle route between Gowerton and Kingsbridge. When it is finished this new route will provide an important link between the two communities in the north of Swansea, offering school children a safe walking route to and from school. It will also link up with […]
Rugby fans will get the chance to see Wales’ final games of the World Cup on Swansea’s Giant screen in the city centre. As the countdown continues to what promises to be an epic semi-final clash against South Africa on Sunday morning, rugby fans can make arrangements to watch the game live on the big […]
Five marching bands will join hundreds of from dance and drama groups to perform in the year’s Christmas parade on the evening of Sunday, November 17. Swansea Labour is delighted that The Welsh Wing Marching Band (Royal Air Force Air Cadets), the Loughor Town Band, the Bloco Vale Samba; the Swansea Silver Rhythmaires, and the […]
The Swansea Labour-controlled Council cabinet will be asked to award the contract for YGG Tan-y-lan at its meeting on Thursday, October 17. Work will be scheduled to start on the new build early in 2020 with the new school ready to open in autumn 2021. YGG Tan-y-lan is currently based at the former Graig Infant […]
A major Swansea city centre regeneration project moves forward next week when new road surfaces are to be laid. The important work, driven by the Swansea Labour-led City Council administration, is to start on October 14 and will take place at night-time as part of a £12m Kingsway scheme. Fresh Tarmac will be laid at […]
Swansea Labour are exceptionally proud that a comprehensive has become the first in the City & County to be officially recognised as a dementia-friendly school. Pupils at Pontarddulais Comprehensive and their teachers have been presented with the award by the Alzheimer’s Society. Awareness sessions and whole school assemblies have helped everyone at the school to […]
Swansea Labour has been at the forefront of a campaign to get more residents in the City and County recycling more. And now more household waste than ever is being recycled following the launch of an initiative at the start of 2019. The Labour-controlled Swansea Council introduced its ‘Keep it out’ campaign in February in […]