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We maintain the council’s tree stock including woodlands and specimen amenity trees on Council owned land. Our current work programme operates outside the bird nesting season (November to February) and is prioritised to ensure that our limited resource is focussed to where it is needed most.

We do offer a tree service and can provide free estimates for works.

We manage Sandholes Allotment Site in Egremont as well Brisco Mount allotment site at Egremont. All other allotment sites in Copeland are managed by town/parish councils or associations.

Brisco Mount is a gated, secure site with access to running water. It has panoramic views of Dent and alongside the allotment plots, has two pigeon lofts..

Allotments allow you to grow food while also gaining the benefits of being outdoors and working with nature.

We maintain a small stock of footway lighting on car parks, footpaths and small mostly rural pockets of land.

These lights are not roadway or street lighting. That responsibility falls under Cumbria County Council and as such any faults or issues should be reported to them direct via their call centre or website.

Our lighting generally covers Copeland Borough Council-owned car parks, footpaths and smaller pockets of land formerly owned by the council.    

We regularly inspect and maintain 14 playground facilities in open spaces, including skate parks and multi-use games areas within Copeland.

We also inspect and maintain other play areas for third parties.

Our play areas are located at:

The grass cutting season usually runs from March/April through to October/November.

We cut our grass areas across the borough at various frequencies, depending on how often it is needed and the type of site it is.  In many locations we have changed our grass cutting regimes to leave more grass longer for wildlife and to allow wild flowers to grow.

Soft and wet ground conditions will sometimes make it difficult or even dangerous to operate mowing machines, and can lead to delays in grass cutting schedules.

We are committed to ensuring our commercial arrangements and contracts are fit for purpose, offer excellent value for money and ensure our procurement expenditure provides the best possible social value for our residents, businesses and tax payers.  This is outlined in our latest Procurement and Contract Management Strategy.

We sometimes need to hold all or part of our meetings in private. Listed below are upcoming meetings that are subject to this notice:

Executive June 14, 2022 - Bereavement Services Opportunity

Executive August 23, 2022 - Whitehaven Civic Hall

Decisions made by Copeland Council's Standards and Ethics Committee following code of conduct complaints relating to borough and parish councillors.

August 2, 2022 - Complaint concerning Ennerdale & Kinniside Parish Councillors Taylor and Young.

July 27, 2022 - Complaint concerning St Bees Parish Councillor Simon Ritson

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