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City Council Consultations

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:53:00 -0500

The current list of Aberdeen City Council Consultations is available at:
http://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/Consultations/cst_CurrentConsultation.asp

Current items of specific interest to the Cults, Bieldside and Milltimber area are:
- Stakeholder Engagement on the Secondary School Estate (ends 13 September 2010)

Transition Aberdeen

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:15:00 -0500

Aberdeen Forward is running a project called Transition Aberdeen, which aims to help communities deal with the twin challenges of climate change and peak oil, by taking simple, constructive action. The main aspects of the project are providing sustainability training, getting derelict allotments back into production and establishing a 'landshare' scheme and community growing areas within Aberdeen.

We provide information on environmental topics and run eco-friendly community workshops, such as upholstery, arts and crafts and composting. In addition to this, we run fully serviced office suites and provide mail box and virtual office services to the business community. We also sell second hand office furniture and stationery through our Creative Waste Exchange project to both the general public and business community. All of our work is in-keeping with our ethos to protect the environment, minimise waste and reduce landfill. If you want to find out more about any of the above, contact 01224 560360 or visit http://www.aberdeenforward.org/workshop-events.

SpringClean Scotland

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:00:00 -0500

** post script: Thank you for helping to make National Spring Clean 2010 such a resounding success! For those of you who love facts and figures… This year 83,668 volunteers took part in 1,406 litter picks across the whole of Scotland during the month of April. That’s more than 1.5% of the Scottish population, who took action to clean up the country this spring. Amazingly, 891 schools and nurseries took part and young people accounted for 79% of participants overall – putting us adults to shame.
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The National Spring Clean encourages as many people as possible to pick up litter at some point during the month of April: a time of year when people are giving their homes a clean sweep and starting to get back out into the great outdoors after a long winter. It’s an ideal opportunity for groups around the country to unite in a common cause and make a concerted effort to clean up the whole of Scotland.

Please help support the National Spring Clean 2010 by organising your own event. Register your interest at http://springclean.keepscotlandtidy.org.

MBC Area Environmental Walkabout

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:00:00 -0500

** post script: the results of the environmental walkabout have been published and shared with the Community Council. If you are interested in finding out what issues were identified in this year's walkabout, please contact any Community Council member, or email cbmcc@cbmcommunity.org.uk **

The Environmental Walkabouts during 2009 were useful and practical for local residents, elected members and council staff. Depending on the date, some walkabouts were joined by city wardens, local police inspectors, community councillors, tenants associations and interested individuals. The purpose of the Walkabout is to identify ongoing neighbourhood problems with litter, overgrown bushes and trees, graffiti, fly tipping, blocked drains, poor street lighting, crumbling footpaths, potholes, road signs, parks and play equipment – in fact, anything which comes under the heading “environmental”.

Steven Shaw, Environmental Manager, has issued the dates for all 37 Neighbourhood Environmental Walkabouts for 2010.

The date for your diary for the Cults, Bieldside and Milltimber neighbourhood is Thursday 29 April 2010 at 10 am. Because of feedback following last year’s Walkabouts, this year there will be two or more starting points so that residents can choose which part of the neighbourhood they walk. In Cults, Bieldside and Milltimber, three starting points have been identified: one at Cults Library which will look at Abbotshall Road to Quarry Road area, one at Bieldside shops, which will look at the area from Quarry Road to the Baillieswells and one at Milltimber Community Hall at The Meadows which will look at the Binghill Road to Contlaw Road area.

For more information, please contact Lorna Graham, Development Officer at Kittybrewster on 01224 489343 or lograham@aberdeencity.gov.uk.

Local Photographs

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:43:00 -0600

This website's masthead image was provided by local resident Martin Slowey. If you like it, you may also like some of his other work - see www.redbubble.com/people/mjs67.

If you have any local photographs which we can include in the website, or MBC News - we'd love to see them. Email us at mbcnews@cbmcommunity.org.uk.

Welcome

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:51:00 -0500

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