Cardiff council tax hike of 1.9 per cent approved as councillors pass budget

Council tax hike will increase by 1.9% from April after councillors voted to pass the city’s annual budget.

Cardiff council’s budget also includes hundreds of millions for building new council housing, school buildings, green energy projects and flood defences.

But opposition councillors criticised the council tax increase, as rates have risen by almost 50% in the decade Labour has run the city.