Tips on doing less to do more for nature in your garden this autumn.
Local Electricity Generation + Distribution
A Civic Working Group Background There was a huge level of interest created by Alan Simpson’s recent talk to Beeston Civic Society. Several audience members agreed that we need to come together as a group to pool our resources and work towards creating our own local energy generation and distribution. The Idea To that end we have … Continue reading Local Electricity Generation + Distribution
Better By Design
Design Awards Launch This Spring If you’ve seen or undertaken a well designed, inspiring build project – nominate it for our Design Awards, which launch this Spring. Nomination categories are: Residential / Commercial / Sustainable The project must have been completed between July 2023 and June 2025, and be located within Attenborough, Beeston, Bramcote, Chilwell … Continue reading Better By Design
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