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Adamsown deep clean and community litter pick
This week, Adamsdown will benefit from the Cardiff Council deep cleansing initiative and to link in, the Love Where You Live Team would like to invite you to join them on a community litter pick. They will be meeting in the Park in front of Adamsdown Primary (by St. German’s Community Centre) at 10am on […]
Adamsdown one of three priority projects revealed for new regeneration funding
A £10m bid to help boost regeneration and invest in local communities is being put together by Cardiff Council and Adamsdown has been named as one of the areas to potentially benefit. If successful in securing the money from Welsh Government’s Targeted Regeneration Investment Programme, then a number of areas in the city would […]
British Heart Foundation Appointed as Cardiff Council’s New Waste Reuse Partner
January is fast approaching and households all over Splott may be enjoying relaxing on a new sofa, or eating around a new table. Maybe the bedroom has had a Christmas make-over. But what about the old stuff? If you’re not planning on popping it on Gumtree, then you may consider donating your old stuff to […]
The future of Cardiff: the proposal for Splott’s part of The Diff.
A new railway station, full completion of the Eastern Bay Link road, a new Business Park and a new Eastern Distribution Centre are the plans for East Cardiff laid out in Cardiff Council’s new green paper. We all know that The ‘Diff is an awesome place to live (especially Splott, innit). But it’s not […]
Know the difference between the cabs of Cardiff
Who knew that it’s an offence for an offence for a driver of a taxi to refuse a fare that starts and ends within the Cardiff boundary without reasonable excuse while private hire vehicles are allowed to refuse fares and it is an offence for a private hire driver to pick up a fare without […]
Cardiff Council consultation on the way forward after Communities First
On 14th February 2017 the Welsh Government confirmed that Communities First will be phased out by 31st March 2018 and outlined a new approach that will be taken to tackling poverty across Wales. Some funding is available to provide employment service and to build Resilient Communities and Cardiff Council would like to engage with as many people […]
New swing on the block: checking out Splott’s newest park at Horwood Close
There’s a new kid on the block, or should I say there’s a new place for kids on the block? During the recent replacement of Beresford Road Bridge, the Horwood Close playground was taken down and the site used by Network Rail for storage and services realignment, which left a fun-sized gap in play provision […]
Study shows Cardiff recycles more than any other UK city
The Viridor UK Recycling Index 2016 study has shown that Cardiff is the most active city for recycling in the UK – higher than London, Manchester, Glasgow and the South West. The study, conducted by Edelman Intelligence, explored current attitudes to recycling, perceived barriers to the UK public and the factors that the UK public […]