Councillors are set to wait before they can scrutinise farms and farmland owned by Wrexham Council. A topic request form back in October explained the reasoning of why the Customers, Performance, Resources and Governance Scrutiny Committee were set to look at the issue, “The Council owns a number of farms and farmland. A substantial amount […]
Wrexham’s Executive Board have backed plans that will see a near decade long zero increase in supporting lodging payments rise by 82% – and lock them into future increases automatically. Supported Lodgings placements provide a young person with a room of their own in a private home where they are a member of the household, […]
A councillor has blasted absentee city centre landlords, saying they ‘put profits first’ rather than Wrexham. On Tuesday Wrexham Council’s Executive Board endorsed going out to public consultation in the new year on a bold ‘placemaking’ plan for Wrexham. The council commissioned ‘eternal expertise’ (sic) to develop a place-based strategy for Wrexham following feedback showing […]
Wrexham Council have failed to make the former Grove Guest House, currently emergency accommodation, into a permanent facility. Councillors were deciding if the current temporary planning permission, that expires on 31 December, should be made permanent. The property has been in used since January 2021 to provide temporary accommodation for homeless people. The use benefitted […]