The local elections will take place on Thursday, May 5, 2022.
This will include elections to Caerphilly County Borough Council and elections to the Community and Town Councils in the county borough. Elected councillors will serve a term of 5 years.

You can find information about candidates on our website.

Caerphilly County Borough Council is reminding residents to register to vote.

With local council elections taking place on the 5th of May 2022, this is an important opportunity for residents to make sure they can take part.

There have recently been some changes to who can vote in our Local council elections. If you are a foreign citizen living in Wales you can now vote, it doesn’t matter where you are born. 

Anyone who is aged 16+ on the 5th of May 2022 will also be entitled to vote in the Local council elections taking place that day.

The Scheme will be made up of 2 elements; a main scheme (related to certain council tax payers) and a discretionary scheme (no firm details on this yet).

The main scheme will involve a £150 ‘Cost of Living’ payment for council tax payers living in properties bands A to D, and all council tax payers who are in receipt of Council Tax Reduction (formerly known as council tax benefit), regardless of what band their property is in (A to I).

If you have recently set up a direct debit instruction to pay your council tax bill, we will collect your first council tax direct debit payment before we issue you with the £150 ‘Cost-of-Living’ payment. This is to ensure that the bank details we hold for you are correct and to minimise fraud and error.

From the 12th - 14th April, between 9:30am and 15:30pm, we’ll be working on the Pwll-y-Pant Roundabout, Caerphilly carrying out emergency investigatory work to the clean water pipe.

Our team will stop works during the Easter bank holiday (15th -18th April) and return to complete their investigations from the 19th - 21st April.

Due to the location of the work, we will need to close one lane of the roundabout closest to Pwll-Y-Pant Village Hall, Caerphilly between the hours of work to ensure motorists and our workforce remain safe at all time.

Thank you for your patience while we complete this work and improve our network for future generations.

The first winner of Caerphilly County Borough Council’s Mash for Cash campaign has been announced.

The borough’s Mash for Cash campaign launched on the 7th March and will run throughout 2022 will see houses monitored with one food recycling participant chosen at random each month, with each winner receiving £500.