Community and Living

View article Community planting day at Oak Road Playing Fields

Community planting day at Oak Road Playing Fields

Local children and the community recently took part in a Humber Forest community planting day at Oak Road Playing Fields in Hull where they helped to plant hundreds of trees and improve the area for all to enjoy. Humber Forest is the community forest for Hull, East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire. It is one of […]

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View article Lead development partner announced for East Bank Urban Village

Lead development partner announced for East Bank Urban Village

Hull City Council has announced its intention to appoint ECF, a partnership between Muse, Legal & General, and Homes England, as its lead development partner for East Bank Urban Village following an extensive procurement exercise. Marking a significant milestone for this major regeneration, the council plans to enter into a 15-year development agreement with ECF […]

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View article Love Your Neighbourhood: Pickering area next in line for a tidy-up 

Love Your Neighbourhood: Pickering area next in line for a tidy-up 

Hull City Council’s Love Your Neighbourhood project will be arriving in the Pickering area next week.     As part of the citywide initiative, several streets within Hull’s Pickering ward will undergo a comprehensive tidy-up between Monday 17 February and Friday 28 February, leaving streets transformed and residents with a renewed sense of pride in their community.       […]

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View article Latest pocket park completed in Drypool

Latest pocket park completed in Drypool

A brand new pocket park has been created by Hull City Council at the junction of Sherburn Street and New Bridge Road. Improvements on the east Hull site in the Drypool area include the cleaning of footpaths and revitalised grassed areas, whilst the original rock sculpture has been maintained as a feature. The central sculpture […]

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View article Love Your Neighbourhood: North Carr ward next in line for a tidy-up

Love Your Neighbourhood: North Carr ward next in line for a tidy-up

Hull City Council’s Love Your Neighbourhood project has arrived in the North Carr ward today.  As part of the citywide initiative, several streets within Hull’s North Carr ward will undergo a comprehensive tidy-up from today, Monday 3 February, until Friday 14 February, leaving streets transformed and residents with a renewed sense of pride in their community.     […]

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View article Stepney community urged to have their say area’s green spaces

Stepney community urged to have their say area’s green spaces

Members of the Stepney community will next week have the chance to shape the future of Sculcoates Park and pocket green spaces in the area by collaborating with landscape architects. Mace Group has been appointed by the Stepney High Street Accelerator Partnership to create the designs based on public survey results and feedback from the […]

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View article Residents invited to engage with Community Highstreets project launch

Residents invited to engage with Community Highstreets project launch

Hull City Council is hosting a series of public engagement events as it launches its £6million Community Highstreets investment project. The citywide scheme aims to reinvigorate high streets through enhancing quality of place, environmental performance, accessibility, community services and satisfaction, as well as increasing footfall and reducing shop vacancy rates. An online survey will launch […]

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View article Love Your Neighbourhood: Sutton area tidy-up begins

Love Your Neighbourhood: Sutton area tidy-up begins

Hull City Council’s Love Your Neighbourhood project has arrived in the Sutton area today.  As part of the citywide initiative, several streets within Hull’s Sutton Ward will undergo a comprehensive tidy-up from today, Monday 20 January, until Friday 31 January, leaving streets transformed and residents with a renewed sense of pride in their community.     The streets […]

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View article Affordable Warmth grants support community groups in Hull in 2025

Affordable Warmth grants support community groups in Hull in 2025

Affordable Warmth, a citywide initiative to help residents with the cost of living this winter, will begin from Thursday 2 January 2025. The three-month initiative, which has seen 28 voluntary and community sector (VCS) organisations receive funding, means more than 30 warm space venues will be open across Hull.  This is in addition to the […]

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View article Newland area next to benefit from Hull City Council’s Priority Streets regeneration programme

Newland area next to benefit from Hull City Council’s Priority Streets regeneration programme

Hull City Council has approved a £4 million investment into streets between Newland Avenue and Beverley Road in north Hull. The funding is part of Hull City Council’s Priority Streets programme which identifies areas of the city most in need of housing improvement works. The streets involved are De Grey, Lambert and Grafton Streets and […]

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View article Exhilarating high ropes on the way for Hull Adventure Centre

Exhilarating high ropes on the way for Hull Adventure Centre

Visitors to Hull Adventure Centre will soon be able to enjoy an exhilarating new high ropes course. Hull City Council has appointed High-Low Ropes Course Consulting Ltd to construct the latest offering at the multi-activity centre in east Hull. The first planned stage will see a unique 20-pole high ropes course that will be incorporated […]

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