Council leader Tudor Evans has vowed to keep up the pressure on the Government to ensure the region's rail issues stay at the top of Whitehall's to-do list.
He has written to the Prime Minister asking for a progress report on a number of commitments the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for Transport made when they visited the city in the aftermath of last month's storm....
Thousands of young people in Plymouth and across the South West peninsula will be helped along the path from learner to earner as part of the City Deal.
A range of initiatives designed to help young people affected by the recession, particularly those claiming benefits for more than six months, will be rolled out.
A Youth and Employer scheme is to be set up which will better...
A meeting of Plymouth City Council's cabinet on Tuesday (3 September) has seen the approval of a number of landmark development projects which will bring a high profile transformation of 'Britain's Ocean City' over the next few years.
The cabinet gave the green light for free wi-fi for the city centre and waterfront areas, a critical land deal in the £50m redevelopment of Home Park, a...
The Conservative Party say that the Energy Bill which returns to Parliament today will save households in the South West up to £158 on their utility bills.
The bill which aims to help people switch to the cheapest tariff, reaches its report stage in the House of Commons today (Monday 3 June) and its third reading tomorrow (4 June).
A free programme to encourage more Plymouth people to give business a go is celebrating a further two years of funding.
The Urban Enterprise programme has secured £1.39 million to continue laying the foundations to help Plymouth’s untapped entrepreneurs make a solid start to their business careers. Plymouth City Council and the European Regional Development Fund have both awarded...
Plymouth's city centre could bear the brunt of a developer free-for-all in the north of the city, Council leader Tudor Evans has warned.
A planned and co-ordinated approach to encourage long term growth has been thrown up in the air, he said, as a result of a Government inspector declaring the Derriford and Seaton Area Action Plan likely to be found unsound.
Council leader Tudor Evans has been touring a Plymouth company whose precision tubes are at the frontier of science and engineering.
Fine Tubes in Estover have been developing products for space as well as scientific research underground and the leader of the Council has been learning at first hand about the company's future direction.
The Leader of Plymouth City Council, Councillor Tudor Evans says the council has now delivered half of the 100 pledges for the city that it announced last May.
The Council reports today that it has delivered 50 pledges and is on track to deliver all 100 pledges by the end of this year.
The commitments are themed around 10 priority areas focusing on: the economy and jobs,...
The Parliamentary Under Secretary for Transport, Norman Baker, MP has told Council leader Tudor Evans he recognises the need to secure improvements to the peninsula rail network as a matter of urgency.
The Council Leader met the Minister in Westminster on Thursday (25 April) to reiterate the importance of measures to ensure the region's rail network can withstand further flooding, bad...
Plymouth’s iconic landmark Smeaton’s Tower will become a beacon for culture on Tuesday 30 April.
The tower will be lit up by the Council that evening to mark the deadline for the bid for UK City of Culture 2017.
Council Leader Tudor Evans said: “We wanted to do something symbolic to mark the handing in of the bid. Smeaton’s Tower is such a well-known landmark it only seemed...
