Going for green on Bury housing estate
Bury Housing Services is working with City of Trees, the community forest for Greater Manchester, to plant more trees in Chesham.
Bury Housing Services is working with City of Trees, the community forest for Greater Manchester, to plant more trees in Chesham.
Bury Council’s £30 million highway investment programme will continue from April with more than 100 more roads to be resurfaced or receive preventative treatments.
Bury Council’s winter maintenance teams have been working day and night to help keep the borough’s key roads moving over the winter months.
The eagerly anticipated £180,000 wheeled sports park at Clarence Park is complete and open to users.
Around 3,300 more street lanterns are to be converted to LED between now and 31 March 2025 as part of Bury Council’s ongoing £7 million 6-year street lighting improvement programme.
Bury Council is drawing up the borough’s first biodiversity strategy and is asking residents for their views.
Two people who failed to pay fines for fly tipping have been successfully prosecuted by Bury Council’s enforcement team.
Bury Council has taken delivery of 10 electric vehicles which will replace old diesel vans and emit less carbon.
Springwater Park is to become Bury’s newest Local Nature Reserve (LNR), taking the total to seven across the borough.
Treatment of weeds is expected to get back on track in September following a washout summer which has delayed the usual control programme.
In a record-breaking year, Bury is again raising its prestigious Green Flags at green spaces across the borough.
A new children’s play area in Prestwich has been hit by vandals for the fourth time since it opened in April.
Work to construct the new and eagerly anticipated £180,000 wheeled sports park at Clarence Park will get under way from 14 August for around 11 weeks.
Plans are under way to install many more EV charging points at locations across the borough of Bury.
Bury is to benefit from a £40 million investment across Greater Manchester in walking, wheeling and cycling infrastructure which will deliver the largest active travel network in the country.
The next phase of Bury Council’s £5.5m street lighting improvements will get under way in April.
Bury Council is to invest an extra £125,000 in tree management to help reduce a backlog of lower priority pruning and felling work on council-owned land.
Bury Council has appointed electric vehicle (EV) charging network Be.EV to install more than 30 new EV charging points across their land. The deal is worth upwards of £9m – fully funded by Be.EV.
The first of a new fleet of electric vehicles has arrived at Bury Council in the ongoing mission to cut the borough’s carbon emissions.
Another two offenders have been prosecuted after failing to pay fixed penalty fines for littering.
Bury Council consists of six towns, Bury, Ramsbottom, Tottington, Radcliffe, Whitefield and Prestwich. Formed in April 1974 as a result of Local Government re-organisation it was one of the ten original districts that formed the County of Greater Manchester. The Borough has an area of 9,919 hectares (24,511 acres) and serves a population of 187,500.
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