Travel and Environment
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First look at plans for city's new waterside pocket park
Work has begun on an eye-catching new pocket park celebrating the beauty and heritage of the city’s twin waterways.
The new Whitehall Riverside Pocket Park will sit between the River Aire and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and is set to include sustainable public seating areas, wildflowers and grassland.
New Light Night zone announced for 2022
Leading urban quarter Wellington Place has been announced as a new zone in Light Night Leeds, the first to be unveiled in the city in four years.
The UK’s largest annual arts and light festival, Light Night Leeds has been running for 17 years, and transforms some of Leeds’
Stunning sunflowers take centre stage
Van Gogh would have been proud! With the sunflower season now reaching its height, the award-winning William’s Den family tourist attraction in East Yorkshire is launching its stunning Sunflower Experience.
William's Sunflower Experience showcases the wonder of sunflowers in full bloom, set against the panoramic backdrop of
The North’s growing polyester problem
New analysis reveals that parents in the North are throwing away 350,000 wearable school uniforms each year, just because they have been outgrown.
With the average school uniform consisting of 32 percent polyester, or similar synthetic fibres, that’s the equivalent of 87 tonnes of plastic going to landfill
Calderdale College launches free green and sustainability short courses
To mark World Environment Day on Sunday 5th June, Calderdale College has
announced the launch of a range of free sustainability courses. These short
courses are available to businesses across all sectors and are aimed at helping
employers, employees and apprentices to develop a more environmentally-friendly
workplace.
The launch follows
Over 9,000 in Yorkshire sign up for UK’s biggest ever plastics investigation
The Big Plastic Count, the UK’s biggest ever investigation into household
plastic waste, has started. Over 140,000 are planning to take part across the
country, including schools, MPs, community groups, businesses, families and
individuals. 9,364 people in Yorkshire and The Humber have signed up, including
seven MPs
Canal charity appoints new chair to Yorkshire and North East advisory board
Canal & River Trust, the waterways and wellbeing charity that cares for 316
miles of waterways in Yorkshire and the North East, has appointed Helen Grantham
as the new chair of its Regional Advisory Board.
The voluntary role, for an initial three-year term, will help the Trust connect
people and