Babergh District Council

09/06/2026

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(formerly called Solar Together Suffolk)

08/06/2026

🔽Upcoming public council meetings🔽

🗓️Cabinet
Tuesday 9 June – 4pm
To discuss:
- housing revenue account (HRA) financial outturn 2025/26
- general fund financial monitoring outturn 2025/26
- Q4 performance report
- annual greenhouse gas emissions report
- Building Safety Regulator (BSR) inspection outcome letter
- joint air quality strategy

🗓️ Planning Committee
Wednesday 10 June – 10am
To discuss an application in Stratford St Mary

🗓️Shared Revenues Partnership Joint Committee
Wednesday 10 June – 4pm
To discuss:
- election of a committee chair and vice-chair
- service report, forward plan and revenues update

👇Agendas, papers and available livestreams via the link in the comments🔗

08/06/2026

You can now start using your blue bin ready for your first collection next week (week commencing 15 June), if you haven't already

This bin is for clean, dry and loose (not bagged):
✅ Plastic pots, tubs and trays
✅ Plastic carrier bags, film, wrapping and bubble wrap
✅ Plastic bottles
✅ Glass bottles and jars
✅ Drinks cartons (Tetra Pak)
✅ Metal cans and aerosols
✅ Tin foil and foil trays

It must not include:
❌ Paper
❌ Cardboard
❌ Books
❌ Shredded paper
as these go in your green lidded bin (collected this week - from 8 June - and again from week commencing 29 June)

For all the information on how to use your bin and what can go in it, as well as how to recycle many other items, head to the Suffolk Recycles website (link in the comments) or refer to the information pack sent in the post ♻️

You may also wish to put your house number on your bin

05/06/2026

If you’re pregnant or you have a child under four, NHS Healthy Start could help with the cost of fruit, veg, milk, and more. 🍎

We're writing to residents who may be eligible and offering support to help them apply. You can find out if you're eligible and apply online via the link in the comments.

For help to apply, or to request an interpreter for information in other languages call the Healthy Start Helpline: 0300 330 7010.

03/06/2026

Long Melford 😍

03/06/2026

Chair of Babergh District Council, Councillor Lee Parker, has chosen Sudbury Defibrillators as his charity of the year to support during his term.

The charity launched a mission to ensure nobody in Sudbury is more than 2 minutes away from their nearest defibrillator.

Read more via the link in the comments

01/06/2026

You can now start using your green lid bin ready for your first collection next week (week commencing 8 June), if you haven't already

This bin is only for clean, dry and loose (not bagged):
✅ Paper
✅ Cardboard
✅ Books
✅ Shredded paper

It must not include:
❌ Any other recycling - like plastic, glass bottles/jars, tins etc
as these will go in your blue bin (collected from week commencing 15 June)

For all the information on how to use your bin and what can go in it, as well as how to recycle many other items, head to the Suffolk Recycles website (link in the comments) or refer to the information pack sent in the post ♻️

You may also wish to put your house number on your bin

📲If you've not yet received your green lid bin, please contact our waste team as soon as possible (via the link in the comments)

29/05/2026

Discover Kersey in Babergh 😍

28/05/2026

On Saturday 13 June ActivLives are celebrating 10 years of volunteering at Belle Vue Park 🌸 with a free event (from 10am and 4pm) to coincide with Sudbury Open Gardens

Head down on the day to meet the team and volunteers - who were recently featured in our reel below - and enjoy the plants, refreshments and more ☕️

Find all the details via the link in the comments

We grant £10,000 in community funding to the group every year, enabling local people of all ages and abilities to socialise, improve their wellbeing, and learn new gardening skills - while making the park look beautiful for our visitors🌻

28/05/2026

Looking for a weekend plan? Gainsborough's House in Sudbury is not to be missed 😍