Our museums and galleries will benefit from just over £124,000 of Arts Council England funding from the Culture Recovery Fund Grants programme, ensuring that the district’s much-loved heritage assets can continue to benefit local people and visitors. This funding creates capacity for Covid safe reopening of Oakwell Hall, Bagshaw Museum and Tolson Museum in line with the government’s roadmap, as
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We’ve published a proposal today which asks Cabinet Members to invest £600,000 at the former Red House museum in Gomersal, to refurbish the Grade II* listed house and neighbouring cart shed, so that both properties can be let as luxury short-term holiday accommodation.
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Businesses are encouraged to get involved with town centre reopening campaign
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An investment plan has been submitted by the Dewsbury Town Board demonstrating how their bid for £25M of funding from the Government’s Towns Deal Fund would be spent.
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If you are visiting one of our towns and villages you will need to pay to park from 11 January.
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We declared a climate emergency in 2019 and have now arranged for our energy supplier to switch our corporate electricity supply to a green electricity tariff for the remaining 2 years of the current contract, which will last until April 2023. ‘Green electricity’ means that our electricity supplies will be generated from entirely renewable sources. The impact of using green
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Three Kirklees councillors have today resigned from the Labour group. All three remain Kirklees councillors and have indicated their intention to sit as independent members. They are Cllr Rob Walker, Cllr Lesley Warner and Cllr Richard Murgatroyd. There are currently 68 councillors elected to Kirklees Council (one seat is vacant). The new political composition of the council is: Labour and
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Following meetings with the Government, Kirklees alongside the rest of West Yorkshire will move from Tier 2 to Tier 3 in the COVID-19 restrictions system from Monday.
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