Nottingham City Council today (Tuesday 10 April) launches a campaign asking Nottingham residents to play their part in reducing litter. Everyone is being encouraged to keep Nottingham clean by picking up and binning a piece of litter when they are out and about. If everyone in the city picked up a piece of litter, it […]
The Dolly Parton Imagination Library scheme has launched in two more wards in Nottingham City: Dales and Bridge. The Dolly Parton Imagination Library is a charity that delivers a free age-appropriate book every month to children from birth until the age of five. The scheme is proven to improve children’s literacy levels so that they […]
Planning permission has been granted for the proposed Broadmarsh Car Park and Bus Station development and Nottingham College’s new City Hub. The new developments were approved at Nottingham City Council’s Planning Committee today and form key parts of the proposed £250m redevelopment of the Broadmarsh area of the city. The new car park and bus […]
Hoodwinked has become the latest exciting chapter in the story of Boots’ literary heritage as it joins the project as the official Education Partner. To launch the new partnership, Boots called in the help of children from Blue Bell Hill School in St Ann’s and Robin Hood himself to join an interactive storytelling session in […]
Private tenants in Nottingham will benefit from better quality accommodation and greater protection from rogue landlords after the Government approved a new licensing scheme. The City Council scheme covering over 30,000 privately rented homes in Nottingham is the largest outside London to be given approval by the Secretary of State. A report by the BRE […]
2018 is set to be a pivotal moment in Nottingham’s development as a thriving modern city, with several ambitious regeneration projects getting underway. Nottingham City Council has been driving forward its long-term vision for the city’s regeneration over recent years, with unprecedented investment in major schemes such as the expansion of the tram network, redevelopment […]
Key business leaders have given their backing to plans for organisations across the Derby and Nottingham area to work more closely together to improve opportunities and quality of life for local people. A Derby Nottingham Metro Summit, which took place at the University of Derby on 17 January, was attended by over 100 representatives from […]
Nottingham City Council has allocated £106,000 to ensure that a robust Cold Weather Plan is in place in Nottingham to provide support for rough sleepers from November until the end of March. This will fund winter shelter arrangements and wider support, meaning that nobody needs to sleep rough in Nottingham this winter. These arrangements come […]
Some boys imagine themselves at the controls of rockets, speedboats or fast cars – but for Archie Cook of Aspley, the humble bin lorry is his dream machine. And for his seventh birthday, Archie had a truckload of fun when he got a ride to school in a Nottingham City Council bin lorry. Archie’s mum […]
Nottingham is celebrating Love Parks Week (14-23 July) by highlighting the city’s fantastic green spaces. A Sunday Times article (9/7/17) revealed that 15.3% of Nottingham is covered in accessible green space – making it the second greenest city in Britain. Birmingham came top in the report produced by the Ordnance Survey, with 15.6% green space. […]