Wirral Council has been successful in a bid for £27,500 to put into action plans to remove discarded, dried chewing gum from local streets.

At the next meeting of the Environment, Climate Emergency and Transport Committee, members will consider an update on the council’s new five-year Waste and Street Cleansing Strategy – entitled ‘Rethinking Waste: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Recover 2025-2030’.

The new subscription period for kerbside garden waste collections runs from 1 June 2025 to 31 May 2026.

Last updated: 9 January 5:30pm

Wirral has experienced snow and icy weather conditions, and for some areas, the impacts continue due to ongoing freezing conditions.

The Met Office has weather warnings in place with expected snow and ice over the weekend, Saturday 4 January and Sunday 5 January.

The Queensway Tunnel lighting refresh project is now complete and the milestone was marked with the official switching on for new LED lights.

We are proposing changes to parking charges, in line with the approved Parking Strategy, that will affect car parking across the borough.

As the school term starts and the journeys to and from school return, more of our children will be travelling actively thanks to the efforts of Wirral schools to become Modeshift accredited.

We're looking for local people to become a School Crossing Patrol to help children cross the road safely on their way to or from school.

Young people from local primaries have been given a boost to get them to and from school quicker and more safely.

Projects that are focused on preventing and reducing carbon emissions are in line to benefit from grants being offered by the Zero Waste Community Fund.