A living willow sculpture has been created by staff and service users from Cumbria County Council’s Hensingham Day Service as part of a project funded by the Cumbria Coastal Community Forest.
Cumbria County Council has allocated £6,000 to Cumbria Action for Sustainability (CAfS), a climate change charity, to provide grants to community groups hosting events during Great Big Green Week, 10-18 June.
Almost 400 trees were planted today (Friday 3 March) at Rosebank Recreation Ground in Hensingham as part of a Cumbria Coastal Community Forest woodland creation scheme.
Cumbria County Council has been granted permission for the construction of two new solar farm sites in Barrow.
Works to plant 71 trees along prominent roadside verges in Barrow, as part of the Local Authority Treescapes Fund (LATF), have now completed.
Cumbria is set to receive £1.4m of funding following a successful bid to Department for Transport’s Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure pilot made by Cumbria County Council, on behalf of the One Public Estate (OPE) partnership last year.
Works to improve the surface of a footpath linking Hallgarth and Briarigg housing estates in Kendal have now been completed.
After a short break whilst different operational arrangements were put in place to comply with new Environment Agency regulatory requirements, some of Cumbria’s Household Waste Recycling Centres are now able to accept waste upholstered domestic seating.
