The Riverside Neighbourhood Team works on behalf of the Area Committee covering the Drypool, St. Andrew's and Docklands and Newington wards to provide excellent and accountable services which help address local priorities and contribute to achieving the City's aspirations by-
- improving residents' quality of life across a range of issues
- supporting members in carrying out their area and community leadership roles
- listening to our communities and involving them in designing the services they want
- supporting the delivery of effective frontline services, that meet the needs of local residents
- help communities to develop a healthy, safe, green and sustainable environment for current and future generations
Riverside priorities
We have listened to you to find out what you feel are your priorities in your neighbourhood and will work together to improve the things that matter to you. You have told us your current priorities are -
- roads, highways and pavements
- Community Safety - reducing levels of crime and antisocial behaviour
- Parks and Open Spaces - increasing community activities and facilities
- Street Care and Cleaning - improving the environment, making it cleaner and more appealing
- recycling, rubbish and waste collection and disposal
- improving community involvement and cohesion
Ward newsletters, plans and annual reports
We produce ward newsletters at various times of the year, the newsletters provide information about what's happening in your area.
Ward forums
Ward forums, neighbourhood forums or forums on the move are informal meetings where you can talk directly to your councillor to -
- express your views about council services
- raise issues that are important to the local community
- share ideas on how to improve the area where you live
- hear and talk about new council policies for the area
- get feedback on actions from the previous meeting
Drypool ward -
- to be confirmed
Newington ward -
- to be confirmed
St. Andrews and Docklands -
- to be confirmed
- to be confirmed
General enquiries
Use the form below in order to submit a general enquiry to your local Area Team.
Your local councillors for the Riverside Area
To contact your councillors access the link below.
Drypool
St Andrew's & Docklands
Newington & Gipsyville
Contact Us
- 01482 300 300 Riverside Neighbourhood Team
- Email - Riverside.Areateam@hullcc.gov.uk
- In writing to - Riverside Neighbourhood Team, 33 Witham, Hull, HU9 1DB
Follow us on
Twitter @HCCRiverside
Facebook Riversideareahull
You can also find information about what’s happening in your neighbourhood by checking -
Notice boards
Our aim is to keep local communities aware of what’s happening in the area. We have a number of notice boards throughout Riverside these can be found in the following locations -
Drypool
- Holderness Road, outside McDonald's
- Corinthian Way
- Citadel Way
Newington & Gipsyville
- West park x 3
- The Greenway - Pickering Road, near St Nicholas Church
- Arthur Street Park - Hessle Road, near Essex Street and Gipsyville Shops
- Amy Johnson Park
- Council Avenue – outside the park
St Andrew's & Docklands
- Asda Hessle Road
- Corner Boulevard Hessle Road
- Coltman Street Hessle Road Corner
- Queens Gardens
Ward budgets
The Ward Budgets have been specifically established to enable Area Committees to support local projects for the benefit of their local communities. We welcome applications for funding from -
- community groups
- charities
- agencies
- council departments
- other organisations that provide benefit to the residents of the local area
Apply for ward budgets
Complete an application form, available to download below, and return it to your neighbourhood team.
- Email - Riverside.Areateam@hullcc.gov.uk
Community Centres
We have a number of community centres which we work with, each operate a number of organised activities and also have rooms available for hire.
If your interested in enrolling in a new course or want to start a new activity, need a venue for a meeting or event, thinking of volunteering, then visit the centres website and or Facebook pages for more details.
St Andrews & Docklands
- Edinburgh Street Community Centre
- Maurice Rawling Community Centre
- Lonsdale Community Centre
- Hull Chinese Cultural Centre
Drypool
Newington & Gipsyville
What else we can help with -
We want to support local communities, if you feel we could help you with a community issue not mentioned on this page, please get in touch.
Gypsy and Traveller - Unauthorised encampments
We carry out assessments of unauthorised encampments by travellers on the public highway, including any areas of carriageway, footpath or verge that is maintained by the council.
If you believe travellers have set up an unauthorised encampment near you please contact us.
Environmental
We work with our environmental teams to undertake a number of environmental projects working with the community. We look at environmental issues such as fly tipping, graffiti and rubbish removal from the ward -
Antisocial behaviour
We help deal with antisocial behaviour within our wards, by working in partnership with our neighbourhood nuisance team and communities policing teams. Examples of issues we combat are -
- the misuse of a public space
- street drinking (alcohol)
- dropping litter
- intimidation
- harassment
- criminal activity
- vandalism
- damage to personal property
- begging
- rough sleeping
Community Payback
Magistrates or judges can sentence offenders to carry out anything from 40 to 300 hours of unpaid work as part of their sentence within the community. We work with the community payback service on a variety of environmental projects such as litter picking, painting and general clean ups.
Members of the public can nominate projects for Community Payback teams to complete. To find out more or make a nomination please contact us or make a nomination direct to -
Meet your local communities policing teams
You can contact your policing team by following the links below -
