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The taxes would help pay for the $559.3 million in infrastructure and capital improvements.
The council is currently, and has historically been, held by the Labour Party. However from 2008 to 2012 the council was controlled jointly by the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats due to there being no party with an overall majority. Between 1996 and 2002 the authority was known as Newport County Borough Council.
The City Council had continued the original mansion tax proposal from a previous meeting, where several residents and the president of the Newport County Board of Realtors pushed back against the ...
The first public hearing on the budget passed with no members of the public speaking on May 11, a second public hearing is scheduled for May 25.
Electoral wards in Newport, numbered alphabetically from 1.Allt-yr-yn to 21.Victoria. This list of electoral wards in Newport includes council wards, which elect councillors to Newport City Council in south Wales. There are also community wards, which elect councillors to community councils. Since 2022 Newport has been divided into 21 city wards.
County borough is a term introduced in 1889 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to refer to a borough or a city independent of county council control, similar to the unitary authorities created since the 1990s. An equivalent term used in Scotland was a county of city.
The City Council is discussing a proposal to impose a 3% tax on real estate sales over $2 million. Is a 'Mansion Tax' right for Newport? Realtors raise concerns as home prices rise
Newport County Borough was created in 1891 and abolished for 22 years from 1974, following local government reorganisation enacted by the Local Government Act 1972. Each of the county borough's electoral divisions was represented by three councillors, who stood down in turn for re-election, hence would each sit for a three year term.