Media Releases

Dudley Council is promoting Clean Air Day in June by encouraging people to walk or cycle to work and school, or to work from home when possible.

Year six pupils in primary schools across the borough are taking part in road safety training sessions as they prepare for walking and cycling to secondary school.

Work is set to begin on a new children’s play area at Himley Hall and Park later this month.

Trailers packed full of rubbish have been dumped in Lye as part of an organised crime racket which has cost more than £150,000 to clean up over the last five years.

Dudley Council has formally adopted its first Climate Action Plan.

More than 25,000 households have signed up for all year round garden waste collections in the first fortnight, figures reveal today.

An order which cracks down on dog fouling and bans canines from fenced off children’s play areas has been extended.

The High Court has granted a full and final injunction banning 'street racing', also known as 'car cruising', in the Black Country.

Nearly £52,000 in funding has been secured to spruce up outdoor gyms at nine parks in the borough.

Drivers have been warned they could be fined for parking in ‘advisory’ disabled spaces on residential borough streets as part of rule changes.

Almost £2million has been spent tackling potholes on Dudley borough roads over the past year with highways crews continuing to tackle thousands of defects.

People are being invited to have their say on dog fouling and whether children’s play areas should continue to be no-go zones for canines.