Members of the Affordable Housing Scrutiny Panel are keeping up with a busy schedule of meetings where they have been gathering evidence from a wide range of experts to help them understand the issue of affordable housing in Swansea and consider ways that the Council and its partners can increase the overall supply of affordable […]
Survey to help improve tourism in Swansea
November 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment
TOURISM operators are being asked to fill in a survey to help improve Swansea Bay as a visitor destination in future. The survey has been made available online and comes in response to a request from a Tourism Inquiry Panel set up by Swansea Council Members. Councillors put the Tourism Inquiry Panel in place to […]
Tourism and the public realm in Swansea
October 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The Tourism Inquiry Panel met on the 26th September to look at destination planning in relation to environment and transport issues as part of their review of Tourism in Swansea. The Director for Environment and officers from the Tourism and Marketing Section attended the meeting to take part in a question and answer session. The discussion […]
Affordable Housing Panel
September 26, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The Affordable Housing Inquiry Panel met on Monday for an evidence gathering session with officers from the Council’s Housing Service and Planning Service. They received a detailed presentation which covered the following issues: Local Authority duties & powers in relation to affordable housing Policies & strategies used to address affordable housing so far Impact of policies […]
Tourism and the local economy
September 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The Tourism Inquiry Panel met last week to look at tourism and the local economy, as part of their review of Tourism in Swansea. They invited officers from the Economic Regeneration and Planning Department to take part in a question and answer session. The discussion was wide and took in range of issues including for example: […]
Affordable Housing Panel work gets underway
September 11, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Councillors on the Affordable Housing Panel met yesterday to agree their programme of evidence gathering to help them answer the question “How can we increase the supply of affordable housing in Swansea?” The Councillors have identified a wide range of people to speak to and will have their work cut out for them over the […]