Latest news from the Borough Council and our partners

People have the opportunity to discover more about the borough's fascinating history with three new talks offered by Great Yarmouth Heritage Guides.

Norfolk County Council is delighted to announce the official opening of the new Herring Bridge in Great Yarmouth is scheduled for Thursday 1 February.

Great Yarmouth Borough Council (GYBC) has launched a new service to enable victims of domestic abuse to remain in their homes and avoid becoming homeless.

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Crematorium has donated £14,000 to charity by participating in the ICCM Recycling of Metals Scheme.

Great Yarmouth Borough Council is celebrating the completion of a successful small electrical waste collection trial, which saw items recycled in both rural and urban areas.

Great Yarmouth Borough Council is to mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2024 with its annual service in the borough.

Great Yarmouth Borough Council and Norfolk Police have been awarded £149,000 out of the Norfolk's Police and Crime Commissioner £936,000 allocation of the latest round of the government's Safer Streets Fund.

Great Yarmouth Borough Council has obtained an anti-social behaviour injunction against someone who was allowing their dogs to persistently foul the communal area outside a block of flats.

Following continued coastal erosion at Hemsby, work has begun on the demolition of five homes on the cliff edge in the village.

Some 60 local businesses, green-tech suppliers, installers and electric vehicle dealerships came together recently as part of the Great Yarmouth - Charging Ahead event.

Great Yarmouth Borough Council has announced the release of its draft Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy and is now asking for important feedback.

Following continued coastal erosion at Hemsby, Great Yarmouth Borough Council is preparing for the demolition of five homes on the cliff edge in the village.

A new operations and maintenance campus for Great Yarmouth moves ever closer as major piling works get underway this week.

FACET, a non-profit organisation dedicated to supporting businesses in the tourism and leisure sector to make cost-effective changes that are better for the environment, has funded more than 10 so-called Ballot Bins for the disposal of cigarette butts.

Over the weekend Great Yarmouth Borough Council has been supporting members of the community whose homes are most at risk.

The mayor of Great Yarmouth, Councillor Graham Plant, led the borough in the nation's one-minute silence at 11am today (Friday, February 24) to mark the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Guests from organisations involved in the major incident which was declared in Great Yarmouth when a 250kg Second World War bomb was discovered have been thanked at a special presentation.

As part of community consultation work around the ambitious project to restore the Winter Gardens, Great Yarmouth Borough Council is taking part in National Lottery Open Week with a special tour inside the Winter Gardens available to National Lottery players.