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Welcome to your monthly Climate Change update.
Northumberland County Council is committed to making our county carbon neutral by 2030 and we need everyone to do their bit to help reduce carbon emissions.
How can you help make a difference? 👇
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Historic pollution clean-up work gets the final go-ahead
Major work to tackle historical pollution on the coast at Lynemouth has now been given the go-ahead. The council has allocated £5m to undertake the works to clean up this stretch of coastline and stop historic waste deposits from washing into the sea in this area.
Site set up and preparatory work is due to start from autumn 2023, with the main works taking place through 2024 when some elements of the scheme, including reforming the dunes, can be carried out in better weather.
Council teams continue to visit weekly to monitor and remove material from the beach, where able and safe to do so. The public is reminded they should not seek to remove material themselves.
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Riding Mill Outdoor Preschool
Riding Mill Outdoor Preschool sits in the heart of the small rural village of Riding Mill, near Prudhoe in west Northumberland. Being a predominantly outdoor school, the staff are keen to incorporate the natural environment and support children to learn through play.
The school applied to Northumberland County Council's free tree scheme in 2021 for a pack of native harvest hedges and applied again in 2022 to expand its woodland area. The trees have been planted near the school boundary fence with the help of the children and other members of the community-run preschool and will help with drainage and the provision of cleaner air once they mature.
The children love to engage with the tree planting process, helping them to understand the important role trees play in tackling climate change and are excited to see the trees grow and develop so that they can come and visit them in the future.
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Morpeth First School
Morpeth First School is a mainstream first school and integrated nursery where the planting and preservation of trees is part of its ethos. Outdoor learning is encouraged in its on-site forest school where children learn hands-on the importance of protecting the natural environment.
After hearing about Northumberland County Council’s free tree scheme on social media, the school applied for Native Harvest hedging to cordon off its forest school area. The children, their parents and carers came together to plant the trees which eventually will be coppiced for use within the forest school.
Morpeth First School recognises that many children thrive in an outdoor environment where they can demonstrate creative thinking that they may find difficult in the classroom. They believe being outdoors and planting trees helps the children think about how they behave in nature - well into adulthood - and hopefully will pass this on to future generations.
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Join our climate change collaboration event
We would like to invite you to our collaboration event where we would like to gather your perspective about how we can work together to reach our carbon neutral targets.
- Date: Thursday 30 March 2022
- Time: 5:45pm - 7:30pm
- Location: Alnwick Garden, NE66 1YU
The event will be structured around three key topics that link to our climate challenges and solutions in Northumberland:
- Renewables, energy efficiency and fuel poverty
- Reducing transport emissions
- Natural resources and land management
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