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As part of the Cultural Quarter pop-up programme, the Dreamy Place Festival will be coming to Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Town Centre from Friday 4 October until Sunday 6 October where audiences can immerse themselves in the vibrant world of creative tech and arts.Produced by Videoclub, a Brighton-based agency supporting artists and…

Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Borough Council is pleased to announce that the second recipient of its Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Greentech Business Growth Fund is Recycle2Trade Ltd, a pioneering small local business.Recycle2Trade has been awarded a grant of £45,100 for the development of a digital prototype to detect and monitor methane gas emissions from…

Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Borough Council is pleased to announce its 1,000th council home has been retrofitted by Mears Group as part of a £4 million Towns Fund project to improve energy efficiency in its housing stock through a ‘fabric first’ approach and save around 900 tonnes of carbon dioxide.The council is working with Mears Group…

Employ Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ successfully hosted its first jobs fair at the new Town Hall.With over 200 live vacancies on offer, around 300 jobseekers were able to speak directly to employers to discuss the various roles available in the local area.Local employers from a wide range of industries including retail, construction,…

Voluntary and community organisations working in Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ can now apply online for strategic grants of £5,000 or more from Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Borough Council.The council awards one-off and regular grants to organisations for new or existing projects or services that will benefit the people of Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½. This funding programme is…

Councillor Michael Jones, Leader of Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Borough Council, and Peter Lamb MP have jointly expressed their concerns over the recent announcement of job losses at St. Catherine’s Hospice.The links between the town and the hospice are strong and long held, with so many Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ residents benefitting over the years from…

Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Borough Council has launched a consultation for residents in Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ aimed at providing an understanding of how economic pressures have affected residents over the last couple of years. This will help the council to shape its services going forward.The survey closes on 23 September and can be completed via our…

Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Borough Council is supporting a major report, which aims to improve how council housing is managed and developed.The report, called Securing the Future of Council Housing, details the current issues in the system and calls on the government to make changes to safeguard council housing.It has been commissioned…

The number of houses built in Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ has fallen below the annual target for the first time since 2015 due to water neutrality rules which stop development.The council traditionally has an enviable record in relation to housebuilding. Since 2015, the number of homes built in Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ exceeds the Local Plan target by 30…

West Green Park will host its first session of Free Parks Tennis on Sunday 1 September at 10am.Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Borough Council is inviting players of all abilities to come along and play tennis on their top quality, refurbished courts. Rackets and balls will be provided.Further free sessions will be held at West Green Park on…