Environment

Our strategic priority is to create a high quality local environmental quality by ensuring the delivery of efficient and responsive services.

In 2009-10, the projects and actions we undertook to support this priority included:

• The Council continued work on its climate change strategy and action plan
• Council answers calls for communal recycling bins in Workington
• More villages on purple bag recycling scheme
• Allerdale rewards quality building schemes
• A breath of fresh air for Harris Park, Cockermouth
• Water Street car park recycling site in Wigton
• Urgent ground works in Maryport
• Council dishes up planning advice for the digital television switchover
• Hellrigg wind farm planning inquiry
• Maintenance event for owners of traditional properties
• Council suggests “eco-logic” for World Environment Day
• Improvements to Oxford Street underpass in Workington
• Recycle Week
• Unauthorised use of land leads to prosecution
• Budding eco-kids pick up green tips
• Joining forces to fight environmental crime
• Council prosecutes litterer
• Vulcan Park vandalised again
• Prosecuted for dilapidated property
• VIDEO: Works to Derwentwater Foreshore  
• Clamp down on illegal waste carriers
• Storyteller takes children’s recycling message to Solfest
• Workington flies the flag for award-winning park
• Energy efficiency improvements to Cockermouth Leisure Centre and Pool
• Skills from the past can help build a greener future
• Council prosecutes man for breaching dog control order
• Cigarette litter costs man £150
• VIDEO: Care of the Solway Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
• Leisure centre offers an exercise in eco-friendly building
• HeatSeekers vehicles hit the roads in Allerdale
• Recycling bins get even greener
• New trees for Maryport conservation area
• Damage to public conveniences
• Fined for dog fouling
• Improvement works to Bell Close public toilets
• Another eyesore property to be renovated through heritage scheme
• Cockermouth Market Place short listed for design awards
• Refuse collections during floods
• Hall Park View homes are not condemned
• Refuse collections after floods
• Post-flood environmental information
• After the floods – building restoration advice and planning permission
• After the floods - Skips to be removed from Cockermouth town centre
• After the floods - Allerdale Borough Council offers renovation advice and support
• Maryport toilets closed due to vandalism
• Advice on bin collections in wintry weather
• Funding available to help restore Cockermouth shop fronts
• Garden waste collections suspended in wintry weather
• Gritting of Council car parks
• Improvement works to Wigton public toilets
• Allerdale Borough Council strives to empty bins in severe weather
• Working together to tackle coastal change in Allerdale
• Repairs to Riverside car park, Cockermouth
• Farmers get free help to clean agricultural land of flood debris
• Second prosecution for breaching listed building law
• Three times the charm for Maryport heritage scheme
  

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