Hundreds of colourful wild flowers will be springing up across Calderdale thanks to a project to inspire people to transform their communities by sowing seeds. Calderdale Council is giving away free native wild flower seeds for people to plant at home and in their local area. A massive 40kg of seeds – enough to sow… read more … about Calderdale grows wild>>
The Clean for the Queen campaign was a great success in Calderdale with Council staff and volunteers getting stuck in to tidy up the borough. Clean for the Queen was a nationwide campaign to get the country looking its best ahead of the Queen’s 90th birthday on Thursday 21 April. The Council and partners took… read more … about 800 bags of litter, 17 tonnes of fly-tipping, one big Clean for the Queen>>
The Leader of Calderdale Council has welcomed today’s budget announcement of further funding for flood defence schemes across the North of England. In his budget speech today, the Chancellor of the Exchequer committed the Government to increase maintenance expenditure in England by £40 million per year and an investment of over £150 million to deliver… read more … about Calderdale Leader welcomes Chancellor’s flood funding announcement>>
Spring is well on its way, and with it comes Calderdale Council’s annual Events and Festivals guide, packed full of things to do between April and September. The colourful guide is crammed with over 30 entries of indoor and outdoor events taking place right across Calderdale. Spring arrives with a flurry of exciting events, such… read more … about Pick up your Events and Festivals guide>>
The latest edition of Wildside – the walks and events programme produced by Calderdale Council is now available in local tourist information centres, libraries and sports centres. The guide brings together all the walks and events run by the Council’s Countryside and Woodland team and their partners. This year’s programme has a number of highlights… read more … about Take a walk on the Wildside>>
The Adults, Health and Social Care directorate at Calderdale Council has been highly commended in a peer challenge that was carried out over a four day period by colleagues from the Local Government Association (LGA). The Council requested that the LGA visit to look at its processes for buying and providing services –particularly the Home… read more … about Peers find positives>>
Shoppers in Halifax will be able to discover the stories of the town as the Woolshops Shopping Centre welcomes the ‘We all have a story to tell’ exhibition on Saturday 19 March. ‘We all have a story to tell’ is a two year Arts Council England funded project, working with four artists to tell the… read more … about We all have a story to tell>>
Calderdale Council considers that it is important that people understand the correct facts relating to the recent High Court decision affecting the Casa Hotel. It should not be surmised from Mr McDaid’s public statements that he has won his planning appeals – the judge has simply referred the decisions back to the Secretary of State…. read more … about Statement on the Casa planning application>>
The clean up is continuing from the Boxing Day floods, with Calderdale Council, partners and volunteers taking part in a spring clean of the banks of the River Calder. The floods caused a lot of damage along the river, and while repair work has been carried out to towpaths and riverbanks, there’s still a lot… read more … about Join the River Calder spring clean>>
