Hundreds of thousands of pounds are being given to city neighbourhoods for community schemes and improvements.
Plymouth City Council is announcing three large grants totalling £359,500 for the city. The first £199,500 is an annual grant allocation that ward councillors can spend on small schemes that make a big impact on their local communities.
This week sees the first phase of a major programme to repair some of the most severely damaged roads in Plymouth.
Plymouth City Council is investing in a major programme of resurfacing, ‘patching’ and ‘micro-asphalting’ over the coming months, in addition to its year-round pothole repairs and road maintenance.
The repair programme, being carried out by the Council’s highways...
Plans for a new pedestrian and cycle scheme on Plymouth’s iconic Laira Rail Bridge have been submitted to the City Council’s planning service.
The scheme, which is part of the three-year ‘Plymotion’ project, will refurbish and convert the disused Laira Rail Bridge to provide a new alternative shared pedestrian and cycle route across the River Plym, to complement the existing route on...
The next phase of work to improve access to Plymouth train station will begin on Monday 17 June the Council have announced.
The main road into the station, which runs from North Road East to Saltash Road, is set to benefit from new footways, cycle parking, safer pedestrian crossing points (including two new zebra crossings) and better street lighting.
Thousands of Plymouth Community Homes (PCH) tenants could soon enjoy lower energy bills thanks to a new scheme to upgrade their homes.
PCH has announced that it is joining forces with British Gas to insulate around 10,000 homes – nearly 70 per cent of its stock – over the next eight years.
PCH will insulate the homes with either external or cavity wall insulation.
Making home energy bills cheaper and increasing wages to the cost of living are just two of the ways Plymouth will tackle child poverty in a hard-hitting city-wide action plan.
Cabinet has agreed a three year strategy and action plan to reduce child poverty and mitigate its effects - pledge number 21 of its 100 promises made in May 2012.
Plymouth City Council are calling for people with an idea for business to pop along to Plymouth’s pop up shop to talk to the entrepreneurial experts.
Representatives from the city’s ‘Urban Enterprise’ programme will be on standby at the Plymouth Plan shop in New George Street to offer advice about the scheme which aims to get more people on the road to setting up a shop, service or...
A controversial bus lane camera located in Tavistock Road that has caught out drivers since its installation last summer, has been suspended following a ruling by the Traffic Penalty Tribunal.
The Traffic Penalty Tribunal upheld an appeal against a fine on the grounds that the turning into the adjacent car wash is confusing.
Plymouth City Council report that the number of schools and nurseries judged to be good or outstanding by government standards watchdog Ofsted has reached an all-time high in Plymouth.
The Council have taken a snapshot from April this year which showed that 80 per cent of Plymouth primary and secondary schools were judged ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ for their overall performance on...
New charging points for electric cars could be installed at key sites in the city. Plymouth City Council has submitted a bid for £142,500 of government funding* for the facilities that would be set up on land owned by public sector organisations.
The funding would cover up to 75 per cent of the purchase and installation costs. The bid has been developed in partnership with Amey PLC,...
