Size restrictions in social housing and cuts to Council Tax Benefit will hit thousands of people in Plymouth in less than a month’s time. Plymouth City Council’s Cabinet Member for Finance stands strong against these Government cuts and urges residents to get advice at an open day in March.
From April 2013 every household will be required to pay something towards their Council Tax...
Builders, developers, architects and businessmen from across Plymouth and the South West will be working on a different kind of blueprint at an event to plan the future of the city and change it for the better.
The event at the Council House on Tuesday 5 March has been organised by the Plymouth Branch of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and Plymouth City Council, and...
Curtain’s up for the Plymouth Plan sofa! Theatre goers are being encouraged to enter the debate about the future of the city according to Plymouth City Council.
Planners will be taking the sofa to the Barbican Theatre on Friday 1 March and Saturday 2...
The number of young people being accepted into their first choice of secondary school has increased this year, as thousands of primary pupils in Plymouth will today learn which school they will be going to this September.
Plymouth City Council confirmed that 95.36 per cent of young people received their first choice of school, 3.62 per cent their second and 0.77 per cent their third...
Plympton Library will be celebrating World Book Day on Saturday 9 March with a special event showcasing the very best of library services.
The library will be inviting readers of all ages to sing along to nursery rhymes, enjoy live music performances, hunt for treasure, meet an author, watch a film and find out more about what Plymouth City Council’s library service has to offer....
A new figurehead to represent Plymouth’s growing visitor economy on a national and international stage has been appointed.
Amanda Lumley will take up the role as Chief Executive of Destination Plymouth, the body which oversees the city’s visitor economy sector worth £252 million per annum.
Amanda brings a wealth of experience in both the public and private sector from...
Shadow Housing Minsiter Jack Dromey MP is visiting Plymouth today (Thursday 28 February) to see how the Council and housing organisations are tackling the housing crisis.
During his visit Mr Dromey will be taken on a tour of housing redevelopments in Millbay, Devonport and also the biggest in the south west, North Prospect, where he will also meet some of the residents who are...
Plymouth City Council has unveiled a fighting fund of £20 million to invest in the city’s economy and help create the right conditions for growth.
The Building for Jobs investment fund has been created as part of the city’s Plan for Jobs, which pulls together key projects that will help create around 2,000 jobs over the next two years.
A huge energy programme is being unveiled by Plymouth City Council to light the way for a brighter and greener future that will save residents millions.
All of the city's streetlights could be replaced with brighter, energy saving LEDs, more Council buildings could have solar panels and old boilers would be replaced.
The £13 million programme of money and energy saving...
