Nottingham City Council hosted the first Love Your City Centre Day of Action of 2026 last week, marking the latest coordinated effort to improve the look, feel and safety of Nottingham’s city centre.
Love Your City Centre Days of Action focus on areas where additional support is needed, bringing together environmental improvements, enforcement activity and engagement with businesses, residents and visitors.
Activity ranges from cleansing and graffiti removal to outreach support, compliance checks and visible patrols.
January’s Day of Action demonstrated strong partnership working, with teams from the Council including the cleansing team, Neighbourhood Safety Officers, ASB team and Taxi Licensing enforcement officers, along with Nottingham City Transport, Immediate Justice, It’s in Nottingham and Safer City Partnership officers, NET officers and Nottinghamshire Police teams.
Activity was focused on Old Market Square, including Long Row, South Parade, Beastmarket Hill, Greyhound Street and Exchange Walk ensuring a visible and coordinated presence in key parts of the city centre.
Throughout the day, teams carried out 15 trade waste compliance checks, removed or painted over 20 pieces of graffiti, cleared fly posters and stickers from street furniture and carried out litter picking across all areas.
Additional activity included pavement jet washing by the Cleansing Team, support offered to people sleeping rough, and the issuing of two Fixed Penalty Notices for littering offences. Police patrols provided reassurance, checks were carried out on e-bikes, and a knife-arch was deployed on Exchange Walk. Thirteen Taxi Licensing compliance inspections took place, alongside 23 premises licence checks, NET ticket operations conducted along the tram network, and Nottingham City Transport staff engaging directly with passengers and drivers.
The Love Your City Centre Days of Action form part of a wider programme of ongoing work to keep Nottingham’s streets clean, safe and welcoming for everyone who lives in, works in or visits the city.
Cllr Corall Jenkins, Executive Member for Communities, Waste and Equalities, said: “Love Your City Centre Days of Action show the real impact of partners coming together with a shared focus. By combining enforcement, support and practical improvements, we’re able to make a visible difference on the ground while continuing longer-term work to support our communities and city centre businesses.
“All of the teams and officers that joined the January Day of Action are regularly present around the city and making a difference, but it’s great on days like this where we see everyone out together in force.”
Further Love Your City Centre Days of Action and targeted patrols are planned throughout 2026.