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Blooming great news as local tree funding confirmed in time for National Tree Week

IT IS National Tree Week next week and what better time to celebrate successful funding bids for the planting of hundreds of trees across the community! The bids, from the Forestry Commission’s Local Authority Treescapes Fund and Urban Tree Challenge Fund (UTCF), allow us to restore trees within our streets, parks and open spaces and…

2 weeks ago | General
Trees in People's Park

Share your experiences of violence to help make our area safer

People are being encouraged to share their experiences of serious violence locally to help authorities to make decisions about public spaces in North East Lincolnshire. The move has been prompted by the introduction of the Serious Violence Duty, which requires local authorities to work better together to share information, collaborate and plan to prevent and…

3 weeks ago | Environment and community safety

CCTV bringing criminals to justice in North East Lincolnshire

Close circuit television cameras in North East Lincolnshire have continued to help bring criminals to justice. According to North East Lincolnshire Council’s latest data, 53 incidents were captured whilst in progress and reported to Humberside Police in September. A further 27 incidents were caught on camera and have been supplied to the Police as evidence…

1 month ago | Environment and community safety
A photo of the CCTV Control Room

CLEAR IT! Council relaunches new scheme to support community clean ups to transform alleyways and neglected patches of land

North East Lincolnshire Council is relaunching a scheme to help communities to safely clean an alleyway or open space in their neighbourhood. Applications open on Wednesday 1 November for Clear It, the new voluntary community clearance scheme. The scheme is aimed at people who live with alleyways or patches of neglected land that suffer with…

1 month ago | Bins, waste and recycling
Clear it: voluntary community clean ups

Spook-tacular display at Grimsby Tip

Dare you enter the Tip of Terror?? Staff at the award-winning Grimsby Community Recycling Centre have a few tricks and treats up their sleeve as they’ve given the site a monstrous makeover for Halloween. From killer bees to Frankenstein’s monster and tyre tarantulas to a wicked witch, the tip is creeping and crawling with their…

1 month ago | Bins, waste and recycling
Matty Harlow and Will Woolliss with their creations at Grimsby Tip.

Routine visits carried out to small businesses in the area

Officers from the Council’s Trading Standards team, Humberside Police, the Home Office, Equans, the Community Safety Partnership and the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) have carried out a number of visits to small businesses in North East Lincolnshire as part of Operation Esoteric. The routine visits, which were carried out on Tuesday 17 October,…

1 month ago | Environment and community safety

Prominent Grimsby town centre buildings enjoying a spruce-up

A campaign by North East Lincolnshire Council to rejuvenate buildings in Grimsby town centre continues to drive forward with improvements currently underway at several prominent properties. Completed earlier in the year were the former My Oriental Fusion property, in Town Hall Street, and The Body Shop, My Cigara, Pizza Hut, TSB, and Nationwide Building Society…

2 months ago | Environment and community safety
Scaffolding at the Post Office building in Grimsby

CATCH announces its vision for a new £60M National Net Zero Training Centre expansion at Stallingborough headquarters

Today, CATCH announced ambitious plans for the development of a £60M state-of-the-art training facility, to reach a training goal of 1000 apprentices a year by 2029, at its Stallingborough headquarters, with the intent of tackling the engineering construction skill shortages anticipated in the Humber cluster and across the UK. In anticipation of a series of…

2 months ago | Green
An Artists Impression of how the New CATCH National Net Zero Training Centre could look

Nature in Lincolnshire: what matters most to you?

Share your thoughts on nature in Greater Lincolnshire to help shape a new Local Nature Recovery Strategy for the area. England is one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world. To help combat this, the Government introduced Local Nature Recovery Strategies (LNRS) which will look for opportunities to help recover nature and increase the…

2 months ago | Green
Cleethorpes saltmarsh