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Cardiff Capital Region is a regional body (also known as a Corporate Joint Committee) made up of the 10 councils across South East Wales. We’ve been working together successfully as a partnership since 2017. Our investments and wider activity has already created and safeguarded more than 3,000 jobs across our region; we’ve supported over 200 businesses and invested millions in our Metro transport system.

We invest in things that improve our residents’ quality of life – jobs, transport, homes and communities – and have recently adopted new responsibilities for transport and planning mean we will have the opportunity to do more.

We work with the Brecon Beacons National Park Authority on strategic planning issues, and we work with our councils and the national park authority to plan ahead for the region’s future, looking at where people will need homes and better transport links. There is robust and transparent decision making made in public by democratically elected members.  

Corporate Joint Committees are being implemented across the four regions of Wales and provide a framework for greater collaboration between councils, leading to a more consistent, simplified and democratically-controlled way of regional working.