Community and Living

View article How Hull is responding to flooding

How Hull is responding to flooding

15th November 2019

Following yesterday’s downpour, a number of leisure services have been affected. Sutton Park Golf Course remains closed due to waterlogged grounds and the local authority’s amateur football and rugby pitches will not be in use over the weekend. Gully cleansing crews worked through the night to protect properties from flooding, saving potential damage ten houses […]

View article Flood defences in Victoria Pier given go-ahead

Flood defences in Victoria Pier given go-ahead

9th October 2019

Plans to install flood defences in Victoria Pier have been approved by Hull City Council’s planning committee. The plans will see the Environment Agency removing the existing flood wall and build out three metres into the Humber estuary with sheet piling to provide protection against flooding until 2040. The defence will be designed to be […]

View article Hull team wins tech challenge for design to help dementia suffers

Hull team wins tech challenge for design to help dementia suffers

3rd October 2019

A Hull team has been crowned as the winner of the Humber Care Tech Challenge 2019 with their design on how to support people living with the dementia. Team Ull-tra Fast designed a technological concept on how to ease the symptoms of dementia suffers who experience sundown syndrome. The term refers to an end-of-day confusion […]

View article Here is Hull’s best garden

Here is Hull’s best garden

27th September 2019

The winners of this year’s Hull in Bloom competition were announced at a presentation evening last night (Thursday 26 September) in The Guildhall. Terry Alsop of Waldegrave Avenue, Hull, walked away with the title of Hull in Bloom winner 2019. Mr Alsop was awarded the title after the judges unanimously voted his garden as the […]

View article Huge Mick Ronson mural created in Hull to commemorate rock legend

Huge Mick Ronson mural created in Hull to commemorate rock legend

3rd September 2019

The late great rock musician Mick Ronson has been immortalised in a huge mural in Bilton Grange. The artwork is the result of a collaboration between residents, arts company Back to Ours and Hull City Council. Overwhelmingly, residents opted for a mural of the east Hull legend on the blank canvas – a bare brick […]

View article Concerned about flooding? Then have your say

Concerned about flooding? Then have your say

2nd September 2019

People living and working around the Humber are being invited to complete a public survey to help organisations working on a new tidal flood risk strategy understand local views and priorities. Hull City Council is working in partnership with 11 other local authorities around the Humber, the Environment Agency and the Humber Local Enterprise partnership, […]

View article One of Hull’s oldest parks gets a makeover

One of Hull’s oldest parks gets a makeover

30th August 2019

One of Hull’s oldest parks has received a £90k makeover. Barnsley Street Park in east Hull is one of the city’s oldest original play areas, dating back to the 1970s. It is one of several in the city that has benefited from the first phase of investment from the £1.2m parks refurbishment fund. Picnic benches, […]

View article Victoria Pier flood defence plans go on show

Victoria Pier flood defence plans go on show

29th August 2019

Victoria Pier flood defence plans will go on show at a public drop-in event on Tuesday 3 September. Staff from the Environment Agency will be on hand to explain the plans and answer any questions at a pop-up stand on Nelson Street from 12.30pm to 5.30pm. The proposed work would see the existing steel sheet […]

View article Residents urged to help protect flood defences

Residents urged to help protect flood defences

31st July 2019

Residents in Orchard Park are being urged to protect a newly built nature area designed to help alleviate flooding in the neighbourhood. The lake and fishing pond sits off Danepark Road and forms part of the Cottingham and Orchard Park Flood Alleviation Scheme. It will protect the area from flooding and will be stocked with […]

View article Keep cool this summer in Hull’s paddling pools

Keep cool this summer in Hull’s paddling pools

17th July 2019

Find a way to keep cool this summer by making a splash at one of Hull’s free paddling pools. From Saturday 20 July, the water areas at Oak Road, Pickering Park, West Park, Ings Road, Bude Park and Alderman Kneeshaw will reopen, just in time for the school summer holidays. And the swan boats in […]

View article Woman to be evicted after damaging home, hosting all-night parties and threatening neighbours

Woman to be evicted after damaging home, hosting all-night parties and threatening neighbours

11th July 2019

A woman has two weeks to leave her council home after seriously damaging the property and subjecting neighbours to loud late night parties and a range of antisocial behaviour. Kelly Barraclough of 81 Mappleton Grove, Hull, appeared at Hull County Court today (Wed July 10) in connection with a Possession Order for the property. She […]

View article The Hulltimate Challenge returns for 2020

The Hulltimate Challenge returns for 2020

3rd July 2019

A huge water-themed obstacle course is heading back to the city next year. More than 900 racers took part in the Hulltimate Challenge last year, taking on a range of tasks including the Hullmageddon – a giant water slide placed outside of Hull Minister. Organised by the Living with Water partnership, the race brings to […]