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Cabinet approved a Workplace Parking Levy as the preferred way to raise transport funding, subject to consultation and a further report. It also agreed a temporary increase of 60 Year 7 places at Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf for 2027/28, approved buying Medallion House in Cathays, and approved a new procurement approach for young people's housing support. Cabinet also received two scrutiny reports and approved three annual reports to go to Council.
Cardiff Council's Cabinet met on 18 June 2026 to consider the Welsh Language Standards annual report, Phase 1a of the Cardiff to Newport Sustainable Transport Corridor, and the 2025/26 budget outturn. Cabinet agreed to recommend that full Council approve the Welsh language documents, approved starting a tender for the transport scheme, and noted the final budget position.
Cabinet agreed a five-year strategy for youth work in Cardiff and endorsed a new model that organises youth services by local area. It delegated authority to publish proposals to expand additional learning needs (ALN) provision in schools, and approved the Regeneration Strategy 2025–2030. It noted progress on the Investment Zone in the Cardiff Capital Region and also approved appointments to joint committees for 2026/27.
Cabinet met on 19 March 2026 and considered 16 substantive items. Its main decisions were to approve a 12-week consultation on the draft Active Travel Network Map, to delegate authority to officers to award the construction contract for CrossRail Phase 1A, and to recommend that Council introduce a Visitor Levy.
Cabinet agreed to recommend the Corporate Plan 2026-29 to Council and approved a Green Growth Proposition on renewable energy and home energy retrofit. It noted the month 9 budget monitoring report and recommended a 2026/27 budget with a 3.90% Council Tax rise to Council. The plan goes to Council on 5 March 2026, and the budget proposals also go to Council for approval.
Cabinet agreed to lower the quorum (the minimum number of members needed for a meeting to make decisions) for the national adoption and fostering joint committee to 40%, and agreed the Migrant Care Workers Charter for commissioned social care. It also authorised an engagement exercise on Welsh-medium secondary school places and approved buying land at Central Quay for council homes. Other items were approved or noted, including a new building maintenance framework and the Shared Regulatory Services annual report.
Cabinet met on 8 January 2026 to note an updated budget position for 2026/27 and agreed a public consultation on the budget, which runs until 1 February 2026. It also delegated authority to officers to submit Cardiff's proforma to join the UK Government's Pride in Place programme, with Ely and Caerau put forward as the strongest candidate neighbourhood.
Cabinet met on 18 December 2025 and approved the Neurodivergent Friendly Cardiff Strategy 2025-2030 and the expansion of Ysgol Gymraeg Coed-Y-Gof to include a nursery. It also approved consultations on new specialist places for children with additional learning needs, the draft Regeneration Strategy and changes to the social housing allocation scheme. Other decisions covered starting a procurement for a new operator of Cardiff Riding School, setting the 2026/27 Council Tax Base, and approving the approach to council housing rents and service charges for 2026/27, which the report based on a rise of up to 4.3%.
Cabinet approved additions to Cardiff's Local Heritage List and agreed to submit the Replacement Local Development Plan for independent examination, subject to final Council approval. It also noted the month 6 budget report, which projects a net overspend of £2.963 million for 2025/26, and agreed to recommend that Council consult on a visitor levy.
Cabinet met on 16 October 2025 and considered ten substantive items. It approved the Social Services Annual Report for Council, agreed that Cardiff take on the lead role for the Connect to Work employment programme, approved a City Parking Plan and a Cardiff Inclusion Strategy, and started the replacement of the Council's main back-office computer systems. It also supported a bid to host matches in the 2035 Women's World Cup, noted the complaints and corporate risk reports, and approved a housing support commissioning plan.
Cabinet met on 18 September 2025 and considered 11 substantive items. It approved an updated Advertising and Sponsorship Policy, a plan to extend the age range of Ysgol Gymraeg Coed-Y-Gof to include nursery pupils, a Digital Strategy for 2025 to 2030, and the 2025/26 Annual Property Plan. It also noted a projected overspend of £3.818 million for 2025/26 and a budget gap of £38.4 million for 2026/27, and it agreed to stop the search for a replacement contractor at Fairwater Community Campus.
Cabinet met on 10 July 2025. It approved a public consultation on a neurodivergent strategy, a continued partnership for the Joint Equipment Service, and a new policy to fund home adaptations for foster and kinship carers. It also approved a new shared cycle hire scheme, a Socially Responsible Procurement Policy, a masterplan and temporary Gypsy Traveller site at Pengam Green, a response to a scrutiny report on filming, £6.7m for City Hall repairs, and a car parking regime and energy procurement at the International Sports Village.
Cabinet agreed to recommend that Council approve the Welsh Language Standards Annual Report, and agreed new principles for older people's care. Other items were for noting.
Cabinet met on 15 May 2025. It made appointments to joint committees, adopted a Corporate Parenting Strategy and a Local Flood Risk Strategy, approved a Corporate Safeguarding Policy, and approved the council's response to a Senedd consultation on bus reform. It also changed how cladding work on two high-rise blocks will be procured and awarded a building contract for the first block at Channel View.
It approved a learning disability strategy and a new day centre at Oak House, St Mellons, subject to grant funding, and a draft Play Sufficiency Assessment for public consultation. It also extended the passenger transport procurement system to 2028, agreed that the council will run its own school improvement services, and recommended a pay policy statement to full Council.
Cabinet met on 27 February 2025 and considered six substantive items. It recommended a 2025/26 budget that raises Council Tax by 4.95%, and it approved the draft Corporate Plan 2025-28 for Council and the refreshed Housing Support Programme Strategy. It also noted a projected 2024/25 overspend of £2.392 million, approved further work on a Green Growth Proposition, and approved starting a procurement for a neutral vendor managed service framework.
It approved the Replacement Local Development Plan Deposit Plan for public consultation, approved moving Lansdowne Primary School to the former Fitzalan High School site, and approved the Corporate Property Strategy 2025-30. It also approved selling the former Toys R Us site for a Top Golf attraction in the International Sports Village, and noted an update on plans to expand Cathays High School.
Cabinet noted an estimated budget gap of £49.726 million and agreed a formal consultation running from 9 January to 5 February 2025, with the results to inform its final budget proposal. Cabinet also received a scrutiny letter, but no minute of its content has been published yet.
Cabinet met on 12 December 2024 and considered eight substantive items, ranging from air quality and school admissions to council tax, council housing and licensing. Its main decisions were to approve the 2025/26 council tax base, approve the proposed approach to council rent setting for 2025/26, appoint a preferred bidder and approve development sites for a new housing partnership, and delegate regulatory functions under the Public Health (Wales) Act 2017.
Cabinet met on 21 November 2024 and considered eleven items. It approved a revised whistleblowing policy, a strategy for children's care homes, and protection for eleven parks and green spaces. It also agreed a new direction for school improvement and noted the month 6 budget forecast of a £6.355 million overspend, along with reports on complaints, treasury management and other services. The minute for the last item, scrutiny letters, has not yet been published.
Cabinet met on 24 October 2024 to consider the Core Office Strategy, a plan for new council offices. It approved the Full Business Case in principle, subject to final costs being confirmed at a later meeting, and approved the appointment of a 'Successful Bidder' to deliver the new offices. Parts of two appendices are withheld from publication because they contain exempt information.
Cabinet met on 17 October 2024 to consider nine reports, including the Shared Prosperity Fund, budget monitoring and the Atlantic Wharf regeneration. Main decisions: Cabinet approved a build contract for a new car park at Atlantic Wharf and pre-contract design costs, approved a £1.63 million loan for a heritage building project in central Cardiff, and agreed how to finish Fairwater Community Campus after its main contractor, ISG Construction Ltd, went into administration.
Cabinet also agreed to buy more properties for temporary accommodation to meet rising homelessness demand, and to delegate officers the power to handle the purchases and respond to a homelessness consultation.
Cabinet noted the well-being report and recommended it to the full Council for approval, approved the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and the Age Friendly Action Plan, and noted the corporate risk register.
Cabinet met on 18 July 2024. It agreed to raise charges for non-residential adult care in line with the Welsh Government maximum, adopted a national Corporate Parenting Charter, approved publication of the Cardiff Local Area Energy Plan, and approved a consultation on football pitch provision. It also agreed principles for the 2025/26 budget and approved the 2024/25 Annual Property Plan.
Cabinet met on 20 June 2024. It approved changes to additional learning needs provision in schools without modification, after one objection to a proposed specialist resource base at Fairwater Primary School.
It also approved property purchases and a 12-month extension of hotel use for homeless families, the next phase of works at City Hall, and a draft equality strategy for public consultation. It also agreed its response to a scrutiny report on the replacement local development plan.
Cabinet met on 21 March 2024. It noted the move of Cardiff Capital Region City Deal work to a new Corporate Joint Committee and agreed governance for the council's role as corporate trustee of some trusts.