Your environment

• Take your pick of activity at event to mark National Apple Day

  18 October 2023

  2 minute read

  PEOPLE can find out about a new project to raise the profile of Leicester’s community orchards at an open day this weekend.

• Council bid secures £1.8m for Rally Park improvements

  11 October 2023

  2 minute read

  ROUTES through Leicester’s Rally Park for walkers, wheelers and cyclists are set to be improved, thanks to a successful bid for funding from Active Travel England.

• Green theme for this year’s Libraries Week

  26 September 2023

  2 minute read

  STORYTELLING, writing workshops and green-themed crafts are some of the free events taking place in Leicester’s libraries next week.

• Free ECO Stars scheme on offer for local fleet operators

  26 September 2023

  2 minute read

  LEICESTER City Council has become the latest UK local authority to join the ECO Stars Fleet Recognition Scheme.

• New cycle and walking route under construction

  22 August 2023

  2 minute read

  WORK is under way to create a new section of walking and cycling track in Aylestone Meadows that will form part of the National Cycle Network.

• Council reviews extent of flooding in city after unprecedented rainfall

  15 August 2023

  2 minute read

  THE city council is gathering information on the scale and impact of flooding in the city, following the unprecedented rainfall experienced in Leicester and across the county on 22 June this year.

• Hop! free bus service reaches 1,000 passenger trips a day

  24 July 2023

  4 minute read

  A FREE bus service in Leicester city centre is proving to be a hit with an average of 1,000 passenger journeys per day made on the route.

• New gardens to help tackle flood risk at three city schools

  19 July 2023

  5 minute read

  THREE Leicester schools have seen their playgrounds revamped with new gardens, trees and planters as part of a natural approach to managing localised flood risk.

• Huge solar array installed at council leisure centre

  10 July 2023

  2 minute read

  A HUGE solar array, comprising of more than 800 separate panels, has been installed on the roof of a city council leisure centre.

• Help find the winning ‘mealbarrow’ in annual schools competition

  27 June 2023

  2 minute read

  GREEN fingered pupils that have been busy growing ‘mealbarrows’ full of healthy fruit and vegetables will have their efforts judged at Abbey Pumping Station this weekend.

• Riverside footpath improvements to take place

  20 June 2023

  1 minute read

  A SECTION of a popular riverside pathway in Leicester is due to be resurfaced in a six-week programme of repairs starting next week.

• Newarke Street car park solar panel project completed

  15 June 2023

  2 minute read

  AN environmental scheme to fit two giant canopies covered with solar panels onto the roof of Leicester’s Newarke Street car park has been completed.