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ºù«ÍÞapp Borough Council has reached a major milestone in plans to bring cheaper, greener energy to the town centre. Construction has begun on the new energy centre and is due for completion in February 2022. This forms phase one of the project and will consist of a combined heat and power (CHP) plant, which…

ºù«ÍÞapp Borough Council is supporting Love Local Jobs’ Dare to Dream programme, helping hundreds of students from five schools. Dare to Dream is an inspirational programme created by the LoveLocalJobs Foundation, a community interest company (CIC), which aims to support the self-awareness, resilience, employability…

Councillor Raj Sharma, former Mayor of ºù«ÍÞapp and Governor at Manor Green College, sadly passed away in January. He had been an ardent fundraiser and supporter of Manor Green for many years and the ºù«ÍÞapp was his chosen charity while he was Mayor of ºù«ÍÞapp in 2019/20. Following his death, Raj’s family very…

ºù«ÍÞapp Borough Council has extended the provision of free parking for NHS workers, social care staff and volunteers until 21 September 2021 at Orchard Street multi-storey car park. The national scheme ended on 21 June 2021 so the costs of the extension will be covered by the council. The council has taken this…

As part of the ºù«ÍÞapp Growth Programme, ºù«ÍÞapp Borough Council is undertaking a public engagement exercise on a planned transport improvement scheme along the western end of The Boulevard. The scheme is intended to deliver better transport facilities and connectivity improvements, completing the link from The…

ºù«ÍÞapp Borough Council, in partnership with other local authorities in West Sussex, is asking private landlords and lettings organisations how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected their tenants. The end of furlough and increase in unemployment has placed many people in private housing under financial pressure…

The wetter and cooler month of May followed by recent settled weather has seen very fast grass growth across the town. Residents may see longer grass for a few weeks until the growth slows down again, usually in July. The good news is that longer grass means we should see bumper crops of buttercups and…

ºù«ÍÞapp Borough Council is consulting on how it runs its 11 neighbourhood parades. The current approach was agreed in 2004 following an Overview and Scrutiny Commission recommendation that the council adopt a more commercial attitude to the parades. This approach is now being reconsidered by the Council-owned…

A time-lapse video of the new Town Hall has been released by ºù«ÍÞapp Borough Council, condensing 10 months of construction into just 100 seconds. The video, which can be viewed on the Invest ºù«ÍÞapp website,  shows the empty site transformed into a striking nine-storey building. ºù«ÍÞapp Borough Council…

Two fly-tippers have been fined a total of £520 after rubbish was dumped in ºù«ÍÞapp. In July 2019, dumped trade waste from an address in London was discovered at Buchan Park Kennels on ºù«ÍÞapp Borough Council land. The contents of the fly-tip led the council’s Fraud and Investigations Team to uncover where the…