A GWENT council has become the last of Wales’ 22 local authorities to back a call for control of land and seabed assets to be held in the country.

The Crown Estate controls vast areas of Welsh land and sea, including 65 per cent of the foreshore and riverbed and over 50,000 acres of land, and returns profits to the UK Treasury.

A campaign, pushed by Welsh independence campaign group Yes Cymru, has called for control of the estate to be devolved to Wales, as it has in Scotland, and since September last year 21 councils have backed calls for responsibility to be handed to the Welsh Government.

Councillors in Labour controlled Torfaen have now joined the chorus but also said they want to “understand more fully the implications of devolution of the Crown........

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