Our Neighbourhood Services Team have been working hard to keep the flowers blooming during this unprecedented hot spell.

The bespoke website has been developed to celebrate all things Northumberland Line.

Groundwork NE & Cumbria have a flagship project which has just begun rolling out in Northumberland. Green Doctors offers an independent energy advice service. It has been running successfully in other parts of the North East, offering residents telephone support and home visits which includes installing practical energy saving measures in people’s homes, giving free debt support which reduces energy bills, and cutting energy emissions. The result is saving money and energy, and contributing towards carbon saving, net zero goal too. 

The Climate Change Committee meeting postponed to Tuesday 26th July has been rescheduled for Wednesday 3rd August 2022, commencing at 6:00pm in the Council Chamber, Station Road.

An updated agenda will be available on 27th July 2022.

Behind the scenes, Ashington Town Council has been working with award winning, local garden designer and horticulturist, Sean Murray, to bring sustainable planting solutions to Station Road and the Gateways into the town.

As well as being the future, young people are the trailblazers when it comes to environmental responsibility, and the Council was keen for schools to be involved in this project. Pupils from Bishop’s Primary, Castle School and James Knott Primary have created ‘Work in Progress’ signs to inform of and celebrate the sustainable beds to come.

Sharon Parmley, the Council’s Senior Administration Officer, designed a brief that captured the imagination of school pupils and their commitment to the environment. We received bees and butterflies aplenty and some very positive messages about what people should do to look after Ashington.

Ashington Town Council will host a meeting of the Climate Change & Environment Committee on Tuesday 19th July, at 6:00pm, in the Council Chamber.

The agenda and associated papers for the meeting can be downloaded from the meetings page.

The meeting is open to the public to attend.

Ashington Town Council will welcome Mr Glyn Davies as Town Cllr for Seaton Ward, following an election yesterday, T

Northumbria Police ran the latest Operation Checkpoint initiative on Thursday (June 30) in partnership with officers from Durham Constabulary, Cleveland Police and Cumbria Constabulary.

Following a meeting of the Full Council last night, Tuesday 28th June 2022, Ashington Town Council formally agreed the Climate Change and Environmental Committee.

Ashington Town Council has received and approved the Annual Governance and Accountability Return (AGAR) (2021/22), and this will now be submitted to the external auditor. The unaudited AGAR has been published on the Council’s website, under the AGAR section of the Finance pages.

Any person interested has the right to inspect and make copies of the accounting records for the financial year to which the audit relates.  The Notice of Public Rights and Publication of Unaudited Annual Governance and Accountability Return sets out these rights and how to exercise them.