Nottingham has a variety of different housing needs and as a landlord, housing provider and planning authority, the City Council has a significant role to play. From council and affordable housing, to private residential developments to buy or rent, and eco-friendly and sustainable housing, hundreds of new homes are being built all over the city […]
Following on from the huge success of Socially Distanced Street Zumba in Crabtree and Bulwell Hall, This Girl Can is starting to take nearby Newmarket by storm and it will start the week with another Zumba-based bang on Monday (2 August). This Girl Can has been a collaborative approach in the area with Nottingham City […]
Residents have been asked to bear with the City Council as garden-waste collections become the latest area to be hit by Covid-related staff absences. Like many local authorities across the country, Nottingham has been significantly affected by the pandemic over the past 16 months but frontline services – including bin collections, street cleaning and parks […]
Nottingham City Council has today been handed a major award by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) for continued support of the Armed Forces. The authority has been presented with a Silver Award in the 2021 MOD Employer Recognition Scheme. This bestows Bronze, Silver and Gold accreditations on those employers who support the wider Forces community […]
It’s seen royal tours, the Olympic torch, survived great floods, and one great frost. This week marks an impressive 150 years since Nottingham’s iconic Trent Bridge was completed. On 25 July 1871, the bridge opened to the public after three years of construction. In all the time since, the bridge has seen just one major […]
Hundreds of new homes could be built on the site of the former Padstow School and Ridgeway playing field at Eastglade Road in the Bestwood area of the city. Nottingham City Council has appointed the UK’s leading mixed-tenure developer, Countryside, to build over 350 homes, 108 of which will be new council homes for affordable […]
A Bulwell teacher is retiring after 40 years working at the same primary school. Sue Hickman, who turns 58 tomorrow (Saturday), leads the nursery at Cantrell Primary School and will be leaving when it closes for the summer holidays next Tuesday. When she joined Cantrell in 1981, Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister for two […]
Nottingham City Council is preparing to invest up to £15m over the next three years to carry out fundamental changes to the way it operates. The move follows the council’s production of a Recovery & Improvement Plan to respond to the recommendations set out in a Government report which looked at issues with the authority’s […]
Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) staff Nottingham City Council are paid on average 92p for every £1 earned by white staff, a survey carried out by the council has revealed. BAME council staff make up around a quarter of the overall workforce, with white staff over-represented among higher earners and proportionally more BAME earners in […]
A housing licensing scheme in Nottingham is continuing to protect tenants and make sure they live in good quality private rented housing. The ambitious Selective Licensing scheme has reached its half way point and seen some key achievements over its first few years. It was one of the largest schemes of its kind in the […]