Nottingham City Council’s annual budget meeting has today (4 March) approved proposals to make £23m of savings in 2019/20 after another year of drastic Government cuts. The Government slashed the council’s main grant by £10m in the last year alone – meaning it has fallen from £127m in 2013 to just £25m for the forthcoming […]
Nottingham City Council has announced the sad news that former Lord Mayor and long-serving City Councillor, Mohammed Ibrahim, passed away on Christmas Day. Councillor Ibrahim was Lord Mayor from 1993 to 1994 after serving as Deputy Lord Mayor the previous year. He was first elected to the City Council in 1987 as Councillor for the […]
Nottingham City Council has confirmed that no homeless families with children are expected to be staying in a B & B in Nottingham this Christmas. The Council has been working hard to ensure that it would not need to temporarily accommodate any children in a B & B by the end of 2018. By Christmas […]
Free garden waste collections in Nottingham are set to be extended into November by the City Council next year after a consultation found the vast majority of people were in favour of the idea. Over 1,000 people responded to the consultation with nearly 92% supporting an option to offer garden waste collections into November in […]
Garden waste collections are about to finish for the current year but the City Council is consulting on extending the free service into November next year and there’s not long left to have your say. Currently the collection of garden waste bins takes place every two weeks from the beginning of April until people’s last […]
Roger Steel, the Conservative Party candidate, has been elected as the new City Councillor for the Clifton North Ward following a by-election on 27 September. He polled 1,311 votes winning with a majority of 383. Labour Party candidate Shuguftah Quddoos was second with 928 votes. The by-election was held following the resignation of Independent councillor Pat […]
Nottingham people, charities and other local organisations are being asked for their views on a new strategy being developed by the City Council to tackle homelessness in the city. The strategy outlines how the city can maintain its ongoing commitment to tackling homelessness, which has continued to rise across the country in recent years against […]
Nottingham City Council is consulting on potential changes to its free garden waste service which could see collections extended into November next year. Garden waste collections currently take place every 2 weeks from the beginning of April until the end of October. However an option being put to city residents is to offer the service […]
Better-off councils in the south of England will receive the lion’s share of £153 million of extra Government funding while Nottingham and a number of other councils in the Midlands and North won’t get a penny. The new so-called ‘negative RSG’ funding comes after £300 million of extra ‘transition funding’ announced in 2016 overwhelmingly benefitted […]
Gedling Borough Council has formally signed up to be part of the Derby Nottingham Metro Strategy which is strengthening co-operation between councils and businesses in the area to benefit local residents. Over the last year, initiatives launched as part of the Metro Strategy have included Derby and Nottingham residents being able to access council library, […]