Prudent financial management and an excellent track record for delivery have helped East Riding of Yorkshire Council secure funding from the Homes and Communities
House builders developing properties in the East Riding have signed up to the Government’s FirstBuy scheme, designed to help first-time buyers’ purchase newly built properties. The scheme works by the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) and the house builders loaning a total of 20 per cent of the property price, meaning purchasers only have to make up the other 80 per cent from savings and a mortgage to buy a…
East Riding of Yorkshire Council is holding six special collections of cardboard across the area after Christmas. Councillor Symon Fraser, portfolio holder for environment and planning, said: “At Christmas, we all end up with an abundance of cardboard because of the packaging on everything from food to toys. “Lots of it gets taken to our 10 household waste recycling sites over Christmas so, this time, we are taking the collections…
The work of the council’s Building Control service has been recognised in a national awards scheme. The former Corn Exchange in Beverley’s Saturday Market, which was converted by a local businessman into Browns department store, has won the ‘highly commended’ award (best small commercial building category) in this year’s LABC National Building Excellence Awards. LABC is the member organisation representing local authority building control departments. Unlike other industry awards, the…
East Riding residents took less waste to the 10 household waste and recycling sites over the summer months compared with the same months last year. For East Riding of Yorkshire Council, Councillor Symon Fraser, portfolio holder for environment and planning, said: “This is excellent news because the cheapest waste to get rid of is the waste we don’t make. “It saves the council and our taxpayers the cost of dealing…
East Riding of Yorkshire Council is offering residents the use of an eco-pack that includes an electricity monitor, a pouch for kitchen fats and a water saving device. The packs, on loan from local libraries including Beverley Library, are an extension of a scheme launched last year, which proved so popular. Councillor Symon Fraser, portfolio holder for environment and planning, said: “The monitors can be taken out on loan, just…
Results of a survey of the waste in the East Riding’s green bins show that residents are trying to reduce what they throw away. The survey, by East Riding of Yorkshire Council, is the latest in a series of nine through to 2012, monitoring what is put in the green bins and sent to landfill. While the amount of waste in the bins was down, nearly a third of it…
East Riding of Yorkshire Council is holding a series of roadshows to focus on the recycling of small electrical items. Councillor Symon Fraser, portfolio holder for the environment and planning, said: “We are concentrating on smaller electrical and electronic equipment, like toasters and toothbrushes, because it is the fastest growing waste stream. “The aim of the roadshows is to demonstrate how old, broken electrical items can be recycled while those…