A recycling and environmental campaign is taking place in Forest Fields next week to encourage residents to make small changes to help keep the area clean. Officers from Nottingham City Council will be targeting streets that have a high level of contaminated recycling bins and bins on streets. Officers from Waste Management will be door […]
The City Council is launching the first of a series of free books created to encourage school children, aged from three to six years old, to choose buses as their preferred travel option. The launch will feature Ellie the Electric Bus and will take place in the Old Market Square between 9am-5pm on March 25th, […]
There’s warming news for tenants as work begins on three of Nottingham’s large tower blocks to help make the flats more energy efficient, easier to heat and warmer for residents. Part of the Greener HousiNG initiative led by Nottingham City Council in partnership with Nottingham City Homes, it aims to reduce energy use and to […]
Nottingham City Council is encouraging residents to join in the national community clear up day and support them to keep Nottingham clean! The Community Clear Up Day is a ‘national spring clean’, taking place on the first day of spring – Saturday 21 March. Cllr Nicola Heaton, Portfolio Holder for Community Services at Nottingham City […]
Nottingham City Council’s Waste Operations Team is working with partners to help students on Lenton Boulevard recycle more and improve the neighbourhood. This term the team, along with Local Ward Councillor Sarah Piper, is undertaking a number of different activities to try and increase recycling with the target group and decrease the amount of extra […]
Finishing works on one of Nottingham’s new landmarks, built as part of the city’s tram expansion project, are set to be completed as testing on the new line to Chilwell steps up a gear. Temporary construction components on the Ningbo Friendship Bridge are to be removed during overnight works on March 16. The work will […]
Communities who want to make their area a greener, cleaner and friendlier place to live are invited to sign up for ‘It’s Your Neighbourhood’ – part of the Royal Horticultural Society’s Britain in Bloom campaign. Last year, 40 groups from Nottingham got involved in brightening up their neighbourhoods and received awards to celebrate their efforts. […]
A multi-agency partnership is working together to give over-grown banks in St Ann’s a new lease of life. The first of nearly 62,000 plants will be planted on Monday 2 March to ensure that the visual appearance of the banks is improved for local residents to enjoy. Local Ward Councillors, Cllr Sue Johnson, Cllr Dave […]
The final stage of Nottingham’s recycling roll out has been completed in St Ann’s which means every resident in the city can now recycle at the kerbside. Over the past eighteen months the roll out of orange ‘survival’ bag recycling to flats in the city has taken place in two phases; the first encompassing all […]
Nottingham City Council and Community Protection are working to tackle dog fouling in New Basford and Forest Fields next week. Dog fouling has been raised as an issue in the area so teams will be working together to help reduce the problem through education and enforcement. Dedicated deep cleans and education with local residents and […]