Make a Bird Box – all equipment and materials included. Come along to our Bird Box making workshop on 8 March and make a bird a home in time for nesting season this year. Tickets are £20 each, and that includes the making experience led by expert tutor, Adrian, all tools and materials - plus … Continue reading Bird Box Making
Turning Beeston On to Turning Off
“save energy – save money” When: 10am Saturday 14 December 2024 Where: The Square, Beeston Beeston’s school children take the lead in showing the way to save energy and save money. Pupils at Beeston’s John Clifford School, students from the University of Nottingham’s Department of Architecture & Built Environment and volunteers of Greening Beeston have come together to show the local community, via a range … Continue reading Turning Beeston On to Turning Off
Make Broxtowe an Exemplar Council for Nature
By Mervyn Brown The latest changes to planning regulation on Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) should be established as an absolute minimum across the Borough. We should emphatically require rigid compliance with this regulation and ensure that the benefit is applied locally for the benefit of local communities. Far too often have we seen developers ‘offsetting’ their commitments to Section 106 … Continue reading Make Broxtowe an Exemplar Council for Nature
CONCRETE PLANS
Before you hire the digger out, did you know that paving over your front garden may require planning permission? Parking is increasingly an issue, and many consider removing their front gardens to accommodate parking their car(s) there instead. In some places, roads now have virtually no front gardens left to help soak up heavy rains, … Continue reading CONCRETE PLANS
Walks R Us
Our 2023 Walks with an Expert are finally out of the bag! Interested in learning more about the area? For around 90 minutes a local expert will guide you around areas of Beeston and nearby on an interesting theme. A chance to discover something new about places you may walk past everyday.Our programme of walks runs … Continue reading Walks R Us