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Keep up to date with Sport.Cardiff on Facebook

Keep up to date with Sport.Cardiff on Facebook

September 27, 2011 No Comments

Sport.Cardiff has launched an exciting new web page on the social networking site Facebook. The new tool will mean that people in and around Cardiff can keep up-to-date and informed with Sport.Cardiff news and events which will be regularly updated by the team. It also provides the opportunity for Facebook users to interact with each ...

Building site manager fined for ignoring safety notices

Building site manager fined for ignoring safety notices

September 27, 2011 No Comments

A Cardiff construction site manager has been fined after failing to comply with two safety orders issued to protect workers from injury. Mr Haider Zaman, 53, trading as Pride Builders, was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) for ignoring two Improvement Notices served while he was refurbishing two residential properties in the Cathays ...

Council Executive consider former school building disposal

Council Executive consider former school building disposal

September 7, 2011 No Comments

Cardiff Council’s Executive will next week consider a recommendation to dispose of the former Hawthorn Junior School in Llandaff North to the Steiner School. The Executive is recommended to exercise its wellbeing powers in the disposal of the Victorian school building to the Steiner School subject to their confirmation of funding, which would retain the ...

Major step forward for Ysgol Treganna

Major step forward for Ysgol Treganna

July 11, 2011 No Comments

Plans to transfer Ysgol Gymraeg Treganna to new build premises have taken a major step forward. Cardiff Council’s Executive will receive a report next week to inform them that no objections were received to the statutory notice to transfer the school as a three form of entry school with nursery into new build premises on ...

Circle of Life – Cardiff Bay Salmon Release

July 5, 2011 No Comments

On Wednesday 6th July, three Cardiff Primary Schools will return to Cardiff Bay to see the young salmon they have nurtured from eggs safely returned to the River Taff. Gladstone, Lakeside and Thornhill Primary Schools have participated in the Salmon Coming Home Project; as part of the Cardiff Harbour Authority’s environmental education programme run by ...

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Chance of a “Good Life” in Ely Farm with new allotment announcement

Chance of a “Good Life” in Ely Farm with new allotment announcement

June 29, 2011 No Comments

Cardiff Council’s Park Services have announced new allotment plots are now available at Ely Farm, Cardiff. A total of 32 additional plots have been marked out at the site and prospective tenants on the waiting list are currently being contacted. Eight plots have already been allocated to new tenants keen to grown their own fruit ...

Final decision on Whitchurch Primary Education

Final decision on Whitchurch Primary Education

February 4, 2011 No Comments

Following a full public consultation with the community on school reorganisation proposals for Eglwys Wen Primary, Eglwys Newydd Primary and Ysgol Melin Gruffydd, the Council submitted a proposal to the Welsh Assembly Government (WAG). The final decision was passed to the Minister for Children, Education and Lifelong Learning, Leighton Andrews AM, who has formally agreed ...

Oak Death disease found in Radyr

Oak Death disease found in Radyr

November 25, 2009 No Comments

Cardiff Council has discovered an outbreak of Phytophthora ramorum at the Moundfield Motte site in Morganstown and will now be working to destroy the infected vegetation. Phytophthora ramorum – known as Sudden Oak Death – is a fungal infection and has been found on rhododendron in the small woodland area around the motte. DEFRA (Department ...