Published on Tuesday 30 June 2026 at 2:50 pm
The Lancashire Waste Partnership is updating its strategy for managing waste across Lancashire from 2026-2036 and has launched a new survey to find out your views.
Filed under: bins | Consultation | environment | Lancashire | partnership | survey | waste
Published on Tuesday 10 March 2026 at 11:37 am
The council is backing a national call for sentencing guidelines for fly-tipping to be urgently reviewed, after new figures show that court fines for the offence are often lower than the penalties councils can issue directly.
Filed under: Blackburn | council | Councillor Jim Smith | Darwen | environment | fixed penalty notice | fly tipping | Flytipping | FPN | waste
Published on Wednesday 17 December 2025 at 2:02 pm
The environmental crime team at Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council have achieved three successful prosecutions recently, totalling almost £2000.
Filed under: council | Councillor Jim Smith | Crime | Darwen | environment | environmental crime
Published on Tuesday 11 November 2025 at 5:01 pm
A shop raided in Blackburn town centre as part of a national operation was found to have a considerable number of illicit products.
Filed under: Blackburn | Councillor Jim Smith | Crime | environment | National Crime Agency | NCA | Operation Machinize | public protection | trading standards
Published on Tuesday 19 August 2025 at 10:59 am
The council’s environmental crime team have secured another nine waste prosecutions for eight people, totalling almost £5,000.
Filed under: Councillor Jim Smith | environment | environmental crime | fly tipping | litter | prosecution | Recycling | waste
Published on Tuesday 18 March 2025 at 2:42 pm
Next month, over 9,000 households in Blackburn with Darwen will begin having their food waste collected, ahead of a borough wide roll out next year.
Filed under: bin | bins | Collections | Councillor Jim Smith | councillor phil riley | environment | Food | food waste | Phil Riley | pilot | recycle | Recycling | refuse | Trial | Waste Collections
Published on Thursday 5 December 2024 at 4:58 pm
We’re busy distributing the new recycling leaflet across the borough. If you haven’t had it yet, be sure to look out for it come through your letterbox very soon.
Filed under: Blackburn | brown bin | BwD Recycle | council | Councillor Jim Smith | Darwen | environment | food waste | Green waste | Jim Smith | recycle | Recycling | Win
Published on Thursday 7 November 2024 at 3:00 pm
In a pioneering project, Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council have teamed up with Together Housing to improve services and help communities feel empowered to take pride in their neighbourhood.
Filed under: Ashworth Estate | Blackburn | Brushing up the Borough | environment | Highways | Together Housing
Published on Friday 12 July 2024 at 10:52 am
Over the past year, the council have been continuing with their vow to lower the borough’s greenhouse gas emissions, contributing to a global call to tackle the impact of them.
Filed under: Blackburn | climate change | Darwen | environment
Published on Tuesday 9 July 2024 at 1:25 pm
Blackburn with Darwen borough council will begin collecting residents’ food waste from June 2026, with businesses of 10 employees or more expected to arrange for their own food waste to be collected before then.
Filed under: Blackburn | climate change | Darwen | environment | Food | food waste | Recycling
Published on Thursday 20 June 2024 at 8:56 am
Clean Air Day is today – Thursday 20 June – and is the UK’s largest air pollution campaign.
Filed under: Abdul Razaq | air pollution | Clean Air Day 2024 | environment | mental health | physical health | public health | schools
Published on Thursday 30 May 2024 at 5:54 pm
Blackburn with Darwen borough council’s environmental crime team have secured 22 waste prosecutions recently, totalling £14,584.
Filed under: environment | environmental crime | Fine | fly tipping | Issue | litter | Prosecuted | prosecution | waste
Published on Thursday 30 May 2024 at 12:14 pm
Council Leader Councillor Phil Riley has been to visit a mattress recycling business based in Darwen with big ambitions for the future.
Filed under: business | businesses | Darwen | environment | Leader | Recycling
Published on Monday 11 March 2024 at 4:34 pm
Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council, Bolton and Chorley councils, along with Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, Lancashire Police and Greater Manchester Police, have joined together using legal powers to protect the environment and prevent wildfire devastation on moorland.
Filed under: Councillor Jim Smith2 | environment | PSPO
Published on Monday 22 January 2024 at 10:47 am
A ground-breaking campaign around raising awareness of wood burners and air pollution is taking place this month.
Filed under: burning | Clean Air Night | councillors | Damian Talbot | environment | fuel | health | Jim Smith | wood burners
Published on Tuesday 14 November 2023 at 12:59 pm
The borough has been crowned as a Climate Action Leader by international environmental impact non-profit CDP – the highest rating possible.
Filed under: A List | award | CDP | Climate | Climate Action Leader | climate change | Councillor | environment | Leader | People's Jury | Phil Riley
Published on Thursday 5 October 2023 at 5:47 pm
A Bastwell and Daisyfield councillor has welcomed a newly-installed CCTV camera at a notorious littering hot-spot and warned offenders that they could face a fine of up to £150.
Filed under: anti-social behaviour | ASB | Ash | Bastwell | businesses | camera | cameras | cars | cctv | community | Councillor | enforcement< envirocrime | environment | environmental crime | fines | litter | prosecution | Shaukat Hussain | Street | Takeaway | vehicles | ward
Published on Tuesday 11 July 2023 at 12:44 pm
Blackburn with Darwen Council has released a short video aimed at preventing residents ‘getting the blues’ when it comes to recycling their paper and card.
Published on Tuesday 23 May 2023 at 6:25 pm
A Blackburn shop owner who was found guilty of nine offences relating to the sale of illicit tobacco has been ordered to pay £85,000.
Filed under: environment | Executive Member for Environment | Jim Smith
Published on Wednesday 18 January 2023 at 4:29 pm
Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council has launched a public consultation for a proposed Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) to protect the environment and prevent wildfire devastation.
Filed under: Darwen Moors Fire | environment | Wildfire
Published on Wednesday 16 November 2022 at 9:37 am
A further nine recent successful waste prosecutions were made by the environmental crime team at Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council.
Filed under: environment | rubbish | Rubbish fines | Waste prosecutions | Waste Removal
Published on Thursday 16 June 2022 at 2:45 pm
Children from a Blackburn primary school have been presented with a Young Forestry Award and commemorative coins recognising their Jubilee tree planting efforts.
Filed under: climate change | environment | schools | tree planting
Published on Tuesday 14 June 2022 at 5:35 pm
Air pollution is an invisible enemy, but that doesn’t mean we can’t fight it together.
#Airpollution dirties every organ in the body.
Filed under: air pollution | clean air day | environment | health and wellbeing
Published on Wednesday 9 March 2022 at 11:07 am
The Blackburn with Darwen Safer Roads Strategy has been developed to create a local action plan to improve safety on our roads.
Filed under: active travel | environment | safer roads
Published on Wednesday 2 February 2022 at 3:48 pm
The Environment Agency are offering a new flood warning service to Lancashire including Upper River Darwen at Darwen including Radford, Sough and Spring Vale neighbourhoods.
Filed under: Darwen | environment | flood alerts | flood risk | river darwen
Published on Wednesday 19 January 2022 at 2:36 pm
Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council is investing in positive infrastructure change to improve air quality for our borough.
Filed under: air quality | environment | pollution
Published on Wednesday 6 October 2021 at 9:50 am
Three residents and a landlord in Blackburn with Darwen have been fined and prosecuted after failing to dispose of their waste properly.
Filed under: environment | fly tipping | prosecutions | waste
Published on Tuesday 10 August 2021 at 12:15 pm
Two more residents in Blackburn with Darwen have been prosecuted for waste offences.
Martin Gerald McDonagh, 51, of Queen Victoria Street, Blackburn, pleaded guilty to failing to ensure his household waste was transferred to an authorised person.
Filed under: environment | fly tipping | prosecution | waste
Published on Wednesday 4 August 2021 at 9:57 am
Two more residents in Blackburn with Darwen have received court fines for failing to dispose of their waste properly.
Filed under: environment | fly tipping | prosecutions | waste
Published on Wednesday 28 July 2021 at 10:41 am
Seventeen residents in Blackburn with Darwen have been found guilty of waste offences and fined a total of £12,558.
Filed under: environment | prosecution | rubbish | waste
Published on Wednesday 21 July 2021 at 8:54 am
Blackburn with Darwen residents are being encouraged to take the Plastic Challenge this August to help tackle plastic pollution.
Filed under: environment | litter | plastic | pollution
Published on Wednesday 7 July 2021 at 2:17 pm
Residents in Blackburn with Darwen should keep an eye out for their new recycling and bin collection guides which will be posted through doors over the coming weeks.
Filed under: bins | environment | Recycling | waste
Published on Tuesday 8 June 2021 at 2:01 pm
Many happy returns to volunteer litter picker Nan Smith who celebrates her 90th birthday this week.
Filed under: environment | keep it tidy | litter | red bag | volunteer
Published on Wednesday 10 February 2021 at 1:10 pm
A landlord has been fined after waste accumulated in the rear yard of a tenanted property on Infirmary Street in Blackburn.
Filed under: environment | prosecution | waste
Published on Wednesday 16 September 2020 at 3:17 pm
Blackburn with Darwen has always been bursting with community spirit.
And we’ve seen that shine through brighter than ever since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic.
Filed under: community | environment | fly tipping | litter | Recycling | waste
Published on Wednesday 12 February 2020 at 4:52 pm
Blackburn with Darwen’s new Climate Change Champion has launched the borough’s fight to make a difference to the environment.
Filed under: Blackburn Market | Climate Emergency Action Plan | council | Councillor | environment | Jane Oates | Vicky McGurk
Published on Monday 23 December 2019 at 11:22 am
Blackburn with Darwen Council is continuing its crackdown on people dumping rubbish in the borough.
The Council secured half a dozen prosecutions in December for offences ranging from dumping rubbish in back yards to traders leaving waste on land around the towns.
Filed under: Councillor | environment | fines | Jim Smith | Waste prosecutions
Published on Friday 15 November 2019 at 2:13 pm
Half a dozen people have been fined and named and shamed for dumping rubbish in Blackburn.
Filed under: environment | prosecutions | rubbish
Published on Thursday 4 July 2019 at 3:50 pm
Residents and landlords who caused a ‘stink’ by leaving rubbish to pile up outside their properties in Blackburn with Darwen have been ordered to pay more than £2,000 in court fines and charges.
Filed under: Cllr Jim Smith | environment | waste
Published on Wednesday 20 March 2019 at 4:28 pm
The ‘Friends of Bold Venture Park’ group are celebrating after a recent funding bid for improvements within the park was successful.
Filed under: Bold Venture Park | Councillor David Smith | Darwen | environment | Parks
Published on Friday 9 December 2016 at 2:37 pm
Blackburn with Darwen Council is introducing changes to its garden waste collection scheme.
A small subscription fee will be charged to provide this optional service to those who want garden waste collecting due to increasing costs and a reduction in Central Government funding.
Filed under: Councillor | environment | Jim Smith | Recycling
Published on Friday 2 September 2016 at 12:21 pm
With autumn just around the corner, it is time to start thinking about preparing your home for bad weather.
Filed under: Councillor | environment | Flood advice sessions | Jim Smith
Published on Thursday 25 August 2016 at 10:48 am
Larger households in Blackburn and Darwen can now request a larger burgundy bin once the Council moves to alternate weekly collections which are set to take place from Monday 3 October.
Filed under: bin | Councillor | environment | Jim Smith | refuse | rubbish
Published on Thursday 7 April 2016 at 12:24 pm
We are aware of the issue around people fly-tipping waste on the Council-owned car parks in Ewood and are grateful to members of the public for also raising this problem with us.
Filed under: cctv | environment | Ewood | fly tipping | Martin Eden
Published on Monday 12 October 2015 at 3:44 pm
Six successful prosecutions have continued Blackburn with Darwen Council’s drive to tackle rubbish dumping and fly-tipping in the borough.
Filed under: Councillor | environment | fly tipping | Jim Smith | prosecutions | rubbish
Published on Wednesday 10 June 2015 at 10:28 am
Complaints over abandoned household waste have led to £427 worth of fines for the home owner.
Filed under: Councillor | environment | Jim Smith | prosecution
Published on Monday 8 June 2015 at 3:02 pm
Caroline Heys and Walter Jarvis of Queen Street Blackburn have been ordered to pay £690 each following a hearing at Blackburn Magistrates Court.
Filed under: Councillor | environment | Jim Smith | prosecution
Published on Friday 15 May 2015 at 3:03 pm
This weekend, Saturday May 16th residents within Blackburn will be able to freely dispose of items of domestic bulky waste.
Filed under: bulky waste disposal | environment
Published on Friday 15 May 2015 at 2:09 pm
A woman has been ordered to pay a total of £365 for failing to dispose of rubbish properly Mrs Shugufta Patel, of Wensley Road, Blackburn was served a notice under section 80 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, which required the removal and disposal of the waste which was found close to the rear of a properly, in a legal manner.
Filed under: environment | prosecution | Tony Watson
Published on Friday 15 May 2015 at 11:28 am
A man has been ordered to pay a total of £496 for failing to dispose of rubbish properly.
Filed under: environment | prosecution | Tony Watson
