Category: Climate change / environment

399 Climate change / environment posts found.

Smart water butts ease flood risk with advanced wireless technology

01/05/2025

The River Severn Partnership Advanced Wireless Innovation Region (RSPAWIR) has enabled the installation of an industrial scale smart water butt at a…

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Shire Services does the double at Public Sector Catering Awards

25/04/2025
Two catering awards being held

Shropshire Council’s Shire Services team is celebrating a remarkable achievement after winning two prestigious awards at the 2025 Public Sector Catering (PSC)…

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Business volunteers plant 400 trees to improve environment

15/04/2025

Around 400 mixed native woodland trees have been planted in the Guilsfield area through the Severn Valley Water Management Scheme demonstrator programme.…

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River Severn Partnership and Vodafone trial ‘network-as-a-sensor proposition’ to improve rain forecasting

10/04/2025
A Vodaphone mast against blue sky and countryside

The River Severn Partnership Advanced Wireless Innovation Region (RSPAWIR) is joining forces with Vodafone and Wireless DNA to use the mobile network…

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Farmers joining water management conversation with Perry and Peatlands project

10/04/2025
People sitting at a large with papers in front of them

Farmers are being encouraged to join the conversation and influence the Severn Valley Water Management Scheme’s (SVWMS) Perry and Peatlands Demonstrator Project…

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Garden waste subscription deadline extended to 30 April

01/04/2025

Householders are being given an extra four weeks to subscribe to Shropshire Council’s garden waste collection service, after the deadline for signing…

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Plans to produce biochar in Ludlow given the go-ahead 

27/03/2025
Biochar

Shropshire Council’s plans to develop a pyrolysis plant on Ludlow’s Coder Road business park have been given the go-ahead  at Southern Planning…

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New nature project at historic estate to help inform water management scheme

26/03/2025

Work has begun on a nature restoration project at the National Trust’s Attingham Estate supported by the Severn Valley Water Management Scheme.…

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More than 1,000 trees planted in Rea Brook catchment to aid water management

11/03/2025

Volunteers and contractors have planted more than 1,000 trees in the Rea Brook catchment as part of a Severn Valley Water Management…

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Tree safety work near Dyas Close, Shifnal

11/03/2025

Shropshire Council has programmed important tree safety works to some of the trees that line the eastern bank of Hurley Brook, behind…

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