Safer Cleaner Greener
Love Parks Week 29 July – 5 August 2022
Calderdale boasts a unique landscape and rich heritage which is reflected in the regions’ Parks and Open Spaces.
Love Parks Week is back, giving people the chance to shout about their wonderful green spaces. Whether it’s walking the dog, picnicking with friends, or pushing your little ones on a playground swing, our parks give our communities, our children, and our pets a vital space to play, grow, and bond.
Love Parks Week is set up to celebrate and support the efforts of volunteers and workers up and down the country to maintain and protect our green spaces.
Calderdale has a wide range of wonderful parks, why not visit one this weekend?
Parks and Open Spaces in Calderdale are managed and maintained by Calderdale’s Safer Cleaner Greener Teams. Our teams are working within your Neighbourhood areas, delivering street cleansing, grounds maintenance, countryside services, play ground maintenance, tree management, park and nature reserve management services.
Let us know what you think of the parks and open spaces that you use.
Green Spaces and Street Scene
Email parks@calderdale.gov.uk
Telephone 01422 284428
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Clean up Calderdale with 3 days of action in Elland
Every day, the Council do a wide range of jobs you may not always be aware of. Some jobs, such as street cleaning, may be done in the early hours of the morning, while others, such as pest control, licensing and road safety may not be seen directly – but all contribute to making Calderdale a better place to live.
From Wednesday 1 to Friday 3 February, Calderdale Council will be out in Elland on the key themes of safer, cleaner, greener with partners including Together Housing,West Yorkshire Police and West Yorkshire Fire Service.
Let’s be safer
We will be focusing on a range of things, including tackling problem parking outside schools, safety checks at bars and food hygiene inspections.
Let’s be cleaner
We will be doing a range of activities including litter picking, bin emptying, jet washing and de-odourising, plus spot fines for littering and fouling.
Let’s be greener
Some of the activities which will take place will include advice on recycling and pest control to residents and businesses. We will also be checking on air pollution.
The video below shows some of the things Calderdale Council and partners did during the first week of action held from 23 to 29 October 2016.
New Orchard and wildflower Meadow at Wellholme Park Brighouse
Safer Cleaner Greener apprentice group working together with Incredible Edible Brighouse have completed the planting of the new orchard to aid the promotion of fruit trees and fruit production in an urban community park.
Fruit varieties include (apples) Cox, Orange Pippin, Discovery, Jonagold and Golden Delicious, plus Conference and Williams Pears, also cherries which can often survive in difficult conditions, plus the apples are often quite large and they usually display a good degree of natural disease resistance.
The creation of the orchard is a powerful way to bring people together, to create green spaces and build healthier, happier and more sustainable communities.
The development of wildflower areas using seed that has been recycled by Safer Cleaner Greener apprentices from a new wildflower area in the town centre of Brighouse and will create a new wildlife habitat as part of the Grow Wild Corridors of Colour Project .
The apprentice group again working with Incredible edible have won a Grow wild Grant where the apprentices are to paint the onsite shipping container with colourful environmental scene’s information interpretive boards and to host a wildflower workshop and painting day in May.
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