Latest news from the Borough Council and our partners

Great Yarmouth Borough Council has prosecuted two people following complaints about drug use at their homes.

Great Yarmouth Borough Council has launched a wide-ranging programme of community engagement, including a new online survey and workshops, to help it shape its vision for improving the town.

Members of the public are invited to attend a service to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day on Thursday, June 6.

Great Yarmouth Borough Council has taken delivery of two new mechanical road sweepers to bolster its street cleansing fleet.

Eleven new CCTV cameras are set to be installed across Great Yarmouth to help improve public safety and security.

Councillor Paula Waters-Bunn has been elected as the Mayor of Great Yarmouth for the 2024/2025 municipal year following a vote by her fellow councillors.

A Great Yarmouth man has been handed an Anti-Social Behaviour Injunction after disrupting life on an estate with persistent loud music, drug taking and verbal altercations at his home and in communal areas.

Great Yarmouth Borough Council has successfully prosecuted two people for dog fouling and littering offences.

Great Yarmouth Borough Council has announced that further investment is set to come to the borough - this time in the shape of almost £860,000 to be used for the Middlegate Estate.

Earlier this year, Great Yarmouth Borough Council funded the necessary improvement required by the Great Yarmouth and District Athletics Club to ensure they met the TrackMark requirements for the athletics track which surrounds the main football pitch at the Wellesley recreational ground.

After being abandoned for two decades, a Grade II listed historic building in King Street, Great Yarmouth, is set to receive a new lease of life.

As the start of Remembrance approaches, Great Yarmouth Borough Council invites residents to commemorate the fallen and support the armed forces community in person at several public events in the upcoming weeks.

An exciting programme of free access to a number of museums and galleries, as well as a series of activities and events, is available in Great Yarmouth during the October half term week starting this Saturday (October 23).

Residents across the Borough are being asked to help shape a five-year strategy to help make their coastal borough a more environmentally friendly place to live and visit.

Cash extorted from convicted loan sharks is being ploughed back into the Great Yarmouth community to help raise awareness of the issue.

Great Yarmouth's historic Venetian Waterways has once again scooped a coveted Green Flag award that recognises well-managed parks and green spaces around the world.

30,000 visitors are expected to visit the Venetian Waterways of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, where the brand new 15 night-time shows of Fire on the Water will light up the waterways and entertain visitors from 21 October to 6 November. *

The council is joining forces with Gorleston Traders Association to bring an addition to the winter programme this year, inviting residents and visitors to rock around the Christmas tree in Priory Gardens as it hosts its very own Christmas in the Parks event.