Welsh Government

Ambitious proposals to establish an international rail-testing facility at the head of the Dulais Valley, on the boundary between Neath Port Talbot and Powys, are gathering momentum.

Planning officer capacity in Wales is stretched and skills are decreasing in key areas, according to a report by the country’s independent spending watchdog.

The Welsh Government has made moves to boost active travel after a minister admitted to AMs that despite pioneering legislation passed in 2013, ‘we have not seen anything like the increase in walking and cycling levels that we want and need’.

MPs have called on the UK and Welsh governments to consider a range of low-carbon energy projects in north-west Wales following the suspension of work on the Wylfa Newydd nuclear power station.