Please share with friends, family and neighbours in the borough so they can keep up to date. Sign up here if you've received a forwarded copy.

You should have received a leaflet detailing your new collection day, and you can also check your next collection day online. Your recycling and food waste bins go out on the same day of the week as your rubbish bin. Please have your bins out by 6.30am.

Any missed bins should be reported using the Report It tool online: this is the quickest and most effective way to resolve any issues. If bins have the wrong waste inside them, they will not be collected until the items are removed. Recycling should be rinsed and free from food waste - contaminated materials cannot be recycled. 

If you have any queries about the revised waste collections, we have frequently asked questions on our website. These are being regularly updated.

We have put a lot of advice on our website to help you reduce waste and maximise the space in your bins. If you have any more ideas to help reduce waste, please contact us, and we can add them in.

A £155m funding deal has been agreed for the first phase of The Landing, a mixed used scheme of 429 homes, along with extensive accommodation for office, retail, business and community use.

It enables the delivery of the homes and 23,000 sq ft of ground floor retail, as well as car parking and extensive new public space on a 3.5-acre site in Maidenhead town centre. Construction will start on site immediately and is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2024.

For more information, see the press release.

Full Fibre contract to connect Berkshire schools and public buildings to world-class digital infrastructure

Learn more in our press release.

The Environment Agency is holding a public consultation on draft Flood Risk Management Plans across a number of areas, including the Thames.

The consultation runs until 21 January 2022. For more information, and to respond, please visit the Environment Agency's consultation page.

Applications are open for this one-off grant funding and you can apply online. The closing date is Sunday 21 November.

For more information, and to apply, visit our website.

A series of events are planned in the borough in the run up to, and during, the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow.

The RBWM Climate Community - made of residents from the borough with a passion to address the climate crisis - have created the 'COPtober' brand.

This will be used for all climate and environmental initiatives and events locally, covering 16 October to 13 November.

The group has invited organisations from across the borough to contribute to the calendar of events and activities encouraging people to cut their carbon footprint.

For more information, and the calendar, visit the group's Facebook page.

Check out the Maidenhead Advertiser's story on the launch for further information.

It can be scary how much waste a Halloween party can produce! You can still have lots of fun without producing as much waste.

A scary costume is part of the fun, but it doesn’t have to cost the earth. Get together with friends and “swish” costumes – have a swapping party, so that costumes get reused. Or why not get creative and make your own? You don’t have to be skilled at sewing – cut up old clothes and team with face paint for a zombie or make a ghost costume out of an old sheet. It can be cut up for dusters and cleaning cloths afterwards.

If you are taking part in trick or treating, and want to keep waste low, avoid individually wrapped items in plastic. Instead, buy loose sweets from a market or zero waste shop, or a large bag online, and wrap portions in twists of bright paper or pretty paper bags. Or why not offer alternative treats? You could try little boxes of raisins or small fruits like apples or satsumas – draw a scary face on a satsuma to match your pumpkins. Or offer something that can be kept and used, like pencils or crayons.

Millions of pumpkins bought for Halloween are expected to go uneaten this year. With food waste being one of the biggest contributors to climate change, eating your pumpkin is a really simple way of reducing Halloween waste. Hubbub and Love Food Hate Waste have lots of recipes to use up your pumpkin instead of just throwing it away (and if you do throw it away, put it in your food caddy).

Learn how to cook delicious meals and snacks with your pumpkins with Love Food Hate Waste, or with Hubbub.

If you really don’t like pumpkin, try reusable lanterns. You don’t have to buy them; you can make your own by putting tea lights inside empty jars you have decorated.

Here are just some of the upcoming community events in the Royal Borough.

If you have an upcoming not-for-profit community event or activity you’d like to promote in our Residents’ Newsletter, simply send basic information about your event to communications@rbwm.gov.uk and it could be shared with over 19,000 local residents.

More information can be found on the consultations pages of our website. 

The M4 is due to be closed in both directions overnight only during the weekend of Friday 22 October – Monday 25 October 2021 between junctions 4b (M25) and 5 (Langley). The closure will start after 8pm Friday 22 October and the motorway will reopen by 6am each morning.

The M4 is also due to be closed in both directions overnight only during the weekend of Friday 29 October – Monday 1 November 2021 between Junctions 6 (Slough) and 8/9 (Maidenhead). The closure will start after 8pm Friday 29 October and the motorway will reopen by 6am each morning.

Visit the Highways England website for more details on the M4 smart motorway scheme.

For details of council works on highways, visit our website. For full local roadwork details, including work by utility firms, please visit the One Network website.

Keep up to date with news and information from the council by signing up to Nextdoor and following us on Twitter and Facebook.