The City Council's five-year housing plan has been cut again. The Council is demolishing 900 homes including the Lenton flats, and several large blocks of flats along Alfreton Road in Radford. Their original plan was to build 500 new homes, which clearly wouldn't be enough to make up for those lost. Now this figure has been cut again to 350 new homes. In other words, roughly 2 in 3 of those being …

As has been reported elsewhere on this site, Council Leader, Jon Collins, and Berridge Councillor Toby Neale, were both very quick to say that the NCH housing scandal affair is all done and dusted, nothing to see here, etc. at a recent consultation meeting. However, new information obtained by what Neale referred to in disgust as "a certain website" (NCCLOLs) paints a rather different picture.

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As you've probably heard, Council Tax benefit is to be abolished from next year and councils are being charged with devising their own local schemes to replace it. Big issues include the fact that central government will be cutting support for the new schemes by 10% of what they are paying now and that, for rather obvious political purposes, councils are being told that pensioners' entitlemen…

Protests have begun against Nottingham City Council’s plans for extensive felling of trees in Lenton. On Friday a small demonstration against the logging was held which attracted the attention of City Council staff and PCSOs. The council is planning to cut down 84 lime trees because of “aphid mess, falling branches and loss of light”, but the protestors say it is really a money saving strateg…

Nottingham City Council is planning to impose sweeping changes to how their allotment tenancies are handled and, most importantly, how much people are expected to pay for allotments. Allotment owners are objecting to these changes on a number of grounds and we want to highlight some of these to others who may be thinking of objecting.