Summary when the minutes are published, usually a few weeks after the meeting.
Summary when the minutes are published, usually a few weeks after the meeting.
Summary when the minutes are published, usually a few weeks after the meeting.
Summary when the minutes are published, usually a few weeks after the meeting.
Summary when the minutes are published, usually a few weeks after the meeting.
Summary when the minutes are published, usually a few weeks after the meeting.
Summary when the minutes are published, usually a few weeks after the meeting.
Summary when the minutes are published, usually a few weeks after the meeting.
Summary when the minutes are published, usually a few weeks after the meeting.
Summary when the minutes are published, usually a few weeks after the meeting.
The Cabinet Member for Organisation and Workforce considered five council policies on staff probation, information security and digital devices. The policies are the revised Probationary Policy, the Cyber and Information Security Policy, the Internet Usage and Monitoring Policy, the Portable Device Usage Policy and the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Policy. The minutes record that the Cabinet Member approved each one.
The Cabinet Member for Homes approved a new Tackling Poverty Support Fund for 2026/27. The fund uses £303,171 from a Welsh Government grant to help food banks, pantries and wider poverty prevention work, and to pay for equipment.
The Cabinet Member approved two grants at this meeting. A £50,000 grant from the Ten Towns Capital Development Fund goes to Rhandir Cyf to refurbish a vacant former bank in Llandeilo. A £6,480 grant from the Targeted Finance Fund goes to Treftadaeth Cydweli Heritage CIC to pay for a business plan for Kidwelly Old Town Hall.
The Committee reviewed the Council's draft Annual Report 2025/26 and its Complaints Annual Report, and recommended both for endorsement by Cabinet. It also received reports on the Digital Strategy, treasury management, performance and transformation.
The Education, Young People and the Welsh Language Scrutiny Committee considered an amended consultation document on the council's proposal to discontinue Ysgol Gynradd Bancffosfelen. The Committee endorsed the document for consideration by Cabinet on 2 November 2026. The report's preferred option is to close the school from 31 December 2027, but no closure decision has been made. The public consultation is due to run from 10 November to 22 December 2026.
The Planning Committee deferred three planning applications and refused one, and noted a report on planning appeals. The refused application would turn a former chapel in Burry Port into a house.
At its meeting on 20 October 2026, the Committee received budget reports for 2025/26 and 2026/27, the draft Annual Report 2025/26, a report on peatland, a strategy for electric vehicle charging, a licensing policy review, a taxi policy review, and a net zero progress report. It recommended that Cabinet and Council approve the Annual Report, the Licensing Policy review and the Taxi Policy. It also asked for the wider roll-out of an electric vehicle charging gully scheme to be explored and for representations on VAT to be made to UK Government.
Cabinet met on 19 October 2026. It adopted a business rates relief scheme for electric vehicle charging points. It recommended that full Council endorse the 2025/26 annual monitoring report on the adopted Local Development Plan. It asked officers to cost a second grass cut each year, and left the decision on any change to full Council's budget setting.
The minutes are published. No summary has been written yet.
The Cabinet Member for Climate Change, Decarbonisation and Sustainability met on 16 October 2026 and considered one grant application. He approved £16,118.40 for electric vehicle charge points at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust centre in Llanelli.
The Committee considered budget, strategy and performance reports, and the Council's draft Annual Report for 2025/26. It approved two plans for submission to Cabinet: the West Wales Learning Disability Strategic Action Plan and the Social Care Accommodation Strategy. It also received or noted reports on the 2025/26 budget outturn, the hospital flow programme and first point of contact arrangements for social care.
It also heard that a £16m overspend is forecast on the 2026/27 revenue budget, mainly because of school deficits and rising demand and costs in children's and adult care.
It recommended that Cabinet start formal consultation on the first three, and agreed in principle to Ysgol Bancffosfelen only once a revised document has been checked. It also endorsed the draft Annual Report 2025/26 and noted an evaluation of Estyn inspections.
The Cabinet Member for Resources met on 7 October 2026. The minutes provided record only routine business. There were no declarations of interest, the decision record of the 18 September 2026 meeting was signed as correct, and the Cabinet Member resolved that the reports on the agenda were not for publication because they contained exempt information. The minutes supplied record no other decisions.
Cancelled
Cabinet considered objection reports on two proposals to close village primary schools and recommended to the full Council that both proceed.
The meeting approved the minutes of its previous meeting, held on 30 June 2026, and considered one funding application. It awarded Newcastle Emlyn Town Council a grant of £74,989.30 from the Ten Towns Town Centre Spaces Fund to improve King George V Playing Fields.
The minutes are published. No summary has been written yet.
The minutes are published. No summary has been written yet.