What will the Newport of tomorrow look like?

Hard to believe but when the giant estates of Ringland and Alway were built in the 1950s, the experts advised that having one car parking place for every 18 dwellings would suffice.

It produced hell on earth with neighbours fighting for parking spaces or wrecking the grass verges.

There is new worry about the plans for developments in the city.

All seem designed to cram the maximum numbers of dwellings into small sites creating jammed streets with cars parked two wheels up on the pavements.

Planners take care!

One of the maddest plans for farm subsidies after Brexit rich English farmers should continue to rake in billions.

Even if they gave up farming, those who now receive up to £2 million a year would continue to get their income support.

Four out of five farmers who get handouts now are either millionaires or billionaires.

The industries that Newport relies on are certain to fall into Brexit crises. Thanks again Michael Gove.

If the system is to change, make it a fairer one!

Surprise! Surprise! The Sainsbury's site is offered for sale after six years of ugly dereliction.

I opposed the original planning permission. It included stretches of underground car parking alongside the river Usk with its huge rise and fall of tides.

A major engineering challenge that would be ferociously expensive to build and possibly prone to flooding.

The plans for student accommodation now look forlorn.

It’s common practice for developers to buy sites, obtain planning permission, then sit on them until they increase in value in the hope of reselling the site for a profit.

It’s not an illegal practice but it’s a shame that Newport has lost the use of a prime site for six years.

Better luck for a quality future development!

Parliament is deep in the Brexit doldrums.

It’s nearly two years since the vote to leave won. People voted for a clean break.

Last Thursday Parliament expressed its new fears as prominent MPs of all parties wailed their worries.

Veteran Tory Ken Clarke made the best speech.

Virtually all new informed opinion is alarmed at the prospects of the crises ahead.

Although I have asked again and again, no-one can explain how a frictionless border in Ireland can work. We have been sold a pup.

Brexit will mean shelling out billions of our cash to EU countries for years in order to make us all poorer.