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Friday 20 October
 New proposals for Armada Way unveiled this week aim to help achieve a greener, safer, more family friendly city centre and bring life back to the heart of Plymouth.
You can now give your views on the proposals, which include:
- More trees and greenery, with 50 more trees than previously planned
- A play village for families
- Features to help wildlife and nature
- A new surface water drainage system, powered by solar panels
- Better lighting and CCTV to improve safety
- More places to sit, relax and eat
- A new cycling path for people of all abilities
- Pop-up spaces with water and power.
We are using an independent company, ECF, to carry out the six-week consultation on the proposals.
You can tell them your views online, in person to the team in Armada Way, or by picking up a hard copy of the survey from Central Library.
You can hear more about the proposals on our consultation launch video and on the Let’s Talk Armada Way website.
 Taxi drivers, companies and passengers will be able to give their views on major changes to the Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Licensing Policy.
The policy regulates taxi services within Plymouth and was formally implemented in May 2022, but we are considering altering it to take into account the current economic conditions and the cost of living.
The consultation, which starts on Monday (23 October), includes proposals to:
- Review and consider revoking the livery policy which requires new hackney cabs to be green and white
- Remove the Knowledge of Plymouth test as a requirement for private hire to help encourage more drivers
- Amend the current dress code for drivers to allow black jeans.
There will be an online portal which will go live on our website on Monday.
 Each year more than 30,000 people in the UK have a cardiac arrest outside of hospital and less than one in 10 survive.
Giving chest compressions (CPR) and using a defibrillator can more than double someone’s chances of survival and we are supporting a national initiative to raise awareness of what to do when someone suffers a cardiac arrest.
We are encouraging everyone to take 15 minutes to learn how to do CPR through the British Heart Foundation’s ‘Revivr’ training. All you need is a cushion to help practice CPR: www.bhf.org.uk.
Anyone who owns or manages a defibrillator is also being asked to register it with The Circuit, the national defibrillator network run by ambulance trusts with the British Heart Foundation.
 Important nature sites in Plymouth are to get an immediate boost from an innovative new scheme that will ensure planning laws for large developments will benefit city residents and natural habitats.
Plymouth's Habitat Bank is an arm's length, Council-owned company that will enable developers to meet new planning laws requiring all large developments to provide at least 10 per cent biodiversity net gain on all construction.
Developers will be able to purchase 'units' of already established biodiversity from the Habitat Bank, enabling them to fulfil their legal obligations while funding a lasting environmental legacy in publicly-owned natural environments.
The money from the new Habitat Bank will be put to work immediately to enhance biodiversity in Cann Woods, Ham Woods and Chelson Meadow.
 There’s plenty of spook-tacular things to do in Plymouth this half-term.
They include Halloween trails and parties, treasure hunts and a silent disco and Spooky Science event at The Box.
There’s lots of activities and things to do in libraries and the Plymouth Sound National Marine Park and plenty of free things to do across the city.
 A new Public Space Protection Order designed to reduce dog fouling has now come into force.
Although most rules are the same as previously, there are two main changes that have been made following a consultation earlier this year.
Dogs on leads can now accompany residents into Plymouth’s cemeteries at Efford and Weston Mill and it will now be an offence to walk more than six dogs together.
You must still clean up after your dog and if you are out with your dog, you need to have means to pick up after it.
Dogs must be on leads on marked sports pitches and are excluded from fenced play areas.
 How lovely is this? Sleeping Beauty came to life at Central Library with a real-life ballerina reading the much-loved fairy tale.
Beautifully-costumed Birmingham Royal Ballet dancer Emma Price took time out between performances at the Plymouth Theatre Royal to read to a room of entranced little ones – many dressed in their own tutus.
Over 100 boys and girls with their families enjoyed the reading and afterwards Emma sprinkled a bit of star dust for lots of little girls who posed with her for pictures. Sweet!
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