Your environment

• Funding boost to further clean up bus emissions

  23 February 2021

  2 minute read

  A FURTHER 42 buses that provide services in Leicester will be adapted to make them cleaner to run as part of the city’s efforts to cut air pollution.

• Council seizes speaker following noise complaints from neighbours

  19 February 2021

  2 minute read

  COUNCIL officers have seized noise equipment from a flat in Leicester after neighbours complained about very loud music being repeatedly played in the property.

• Memorial walk for Leicester & Leicestershire reaches fundraising target

  2 February 2021

  2 minute read

  A TREE trail in a country park will soon be providing a space for remembrance for those whose lives have been affected by the coronavirus, thanks to the success of a crowdfunding campaign.

• Final plea for pledges in COVID remembrance project

  29 January 2021

  2 minute read

  A PROJECT to remember all those affected by COVID could get the go-ahead, if its fundraising target is met by Sunday (31 January).

• People invited to have their say on Stocking Farm’s regeneration

  28 January 2021

  3 minute read

  PEOPLE who live and work in the Stocking Farm area of north-west Leicester are being invited to have their say on how the area should be regenerated.

• Successful funding bid supports planting of around 5,000 trees

  18 January 2021

  1 minute read

  NEARLY 5,000 new trees are being planted in two of Leicester’s most popular green spaces, following a successful bid to the Urban Tree Challenge Fund.

• Major air pollution study will help put city ‘ahead of the curve’

  22 December 2020

  3 minute read

  A ground-breaking project to provide people in Leicester with real-time information about local air pollution from fine particulates is in its final stages of development.

• Schools to become bee-friendly in new environmental project

  17 December 2020

  2 minute read

  A NEW project to help make school grounds bee-friendly will kick off in the new year.

• Tree preservation strategy will protect neighbourhood’s giant redwoods

  16 December 2020

  2 minute read

  MORE than two dozen giant trees, some well over a century old and which characterise a Leicester suburb, are being given protection under a new strategy by Leicester City Council.

• Work begins to control flooding and improve habitats at Everards Meadows

  9 December 2020

  3 minute read

  A SCHEME to help control flooding and improve wetland habitats is underway at a popular destination for cyclists and walkers on the banks of the River Soar. 

• ‘Memorial walk’ proposed for Leicester & Leicestershire

  2 December 2020

  3 minute read

  A TREE trail in a country park could soon provide a space for reflection for those whose lives have been affected by the coronavirus, if a new crowdfunding campaign is successful.

• New grants to help keep homes warm and energy bills low

  6 November 2020

  2 minute read

  LEICESTER City Council has been awarded £1million for a new scheme aimed at tackling fuel poverty with grants for energy efficient and low carbon heating.