Latest news from the Borough Council and our partners

Residents and members of the Great Yarmouth FEPOW community are invited to the annual service of thanks and remembrance in Great Yarmouth to mark the anniversary of V-J Day, on Tuesday, August 15.

Redwings Horse Sanctuary is delighted to have welcomed Her Majesty the Queen to Anna Sewell House in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk on Monday 24th July.

Great Yarmouth Borough Council has announced the opening of a wheelchair kiosk and all-access concrete table tennis tables at Gorleston Beach.

Great Yarmouth Borough Council is inviting people to help shape a key planning document which will help set out clear principles and standards for how development should be designed in the borough.

Great Yarmouth Borough Council is asking for feedback on its exciting plans to revitalise the iconic Winter Gardens, restoring the iron and glass structure to its former glory as a People's Palace on the town's seafront thanks to funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Great Yarmouth Borough Council has announced that all the units within phase two of the Market Place development have now been provisionally leased. All stalls have been well insulated to regulate temperature and the light fittings are low-energy LED lights, adding to the market's energy efficiency.

Great Yarmouth Borough Council has announced the winners of its latest competition where primary school children were invited to suggest creative and inspiring names for Great Yarmouth Services Limited's (GYS) five new refuse trucks.

Great Yarmouth Borough Council has announced the launch of a new social media campaign aimed at encouraging people and local businesses to actively participate in keeping the borough's beaches free of litter.

Her Worship the Mayor of Great Yarmouth, Councillor Penny Carpenter, was joined by councillors, stakeholders, project team and construction company to celebrate the official opening of the council's new housing development, featuring 18 one-bedroom flats.

The Visit Great Yarmouth Wheels Festival, held this past weekend, has been hailed as a tremendous success, attracting tens of thousands of visitors and raising essential funds for East Anglian Air Ambulance (EAAA).

Great Yarmouth Borough Council is appealing for information after large quantities of waste were left at the same location for the second month in a row.

Great Yarmouth Borough Council have obtained an Anti-Social Behaviour Injunction against Michelle Sison of Lowestoft, banning her from Nottingham Way in, Great Yarmouth and the surrounding areas.

Great Yarmouth Borough Council's Tenancy Services Team, working in partnership with Norfolk Police, are joining a national campaign to promote community safety in the area's neighbourhoods.

Community and voluntary groups, arts and cultural organisations, businesses and individuals across the Great Yarmouth Borough and East Suffolk Council areas have given an enthusiastic welcome to the coastal region's entry into the race to become the UK City of Culture in 2025.

Young people and adults living and working in designated coastal parishes in the east of Norfolk are being asked to get tested from Thursday, 22 July after a rapid rise in Covid-19 cases in recent weeks.

Morgan Sindall, the council's main construction partner on the Marina Centre Development, is offering grants to local businesses, schools, community groups and charities in the Great Yarmouth borough, through their Customer Experience Initiative.

With a shared cultural history linked to the sea, beautiful beaches, historic buildings and bordered by the unique Broads National Park, Great Yarmouth Borough and East Suffolk Councils have joined forces for an exciting bid to become UK City of Culture 2025.

Today The National Lottery Heritage Fund has announced almost £10million of funding to Great Yarmouth's Winter Gardens. Known as the 'People's Palace', the Grade II* listed Victorian building is the last surviving cast iron and glass structure of its type in the UK, and is currently at an acute and immediate risk of loss.