Two new parish councils could be created in South Gloucestershire following the council’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) next Wednesday (22nd May). Councillors will be invited to approve recommendations to create a town council for Emersons Green and a parish council for Stoke Lodge and The Common. The recommendations follow the council’s recent review of its community governance arrangements, which considered
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Sixth form students from Chipping Sodbury School are to hold a fashion show in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust’s South West Appeal. The event, on Thursday 23rd May, is being organised by A-Level textile students who are making their own clothes for the show. The theme of the fashion show is ‘Upcycling’ which refers to turning waste materials into new,
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Work has begun on a £20m project to improve 1,000 homes in South Gloucestershire. Merlin Housing Society is carrying out external improvements to most of its non-traditional housing stock to make them warmer and cheaper to heat. The first phase of work involves 48 properties in Cadbury Heath. Project manager Richard Hopkins said: “It’s great to get underway with this
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April marks the completion of a range of improvements to three cycle and pedestrian routes across South Gloucestershire, thanks to a grant from the Government’s Local Sustainable Transport Fund (LSTF). A growing number of cyclists are now benefiting from the improvements which build upon the network constructed during the Cycling City project – completing missing links and providing more continuous
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Government planning inspector Mr Paul Crysell is expected to deliver his final report on South Gloucestershire’s Core Strategy in June, following a further consultation period that began last Friday (22nd March). Over the next six weeks he will be inviting members of the public to comment on modifications to the strategy that he believes are necessary to make it ‘sound’
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Teenagers across South Gloucestershire are having the chance to see crime and punishment first-hand. Local schools are the first in the Avon and Somerset policing area to take part in ‘Getting Court’, an educational programme which has proved a great success in Gloucestershire. It’s supported by the High Sheriff of Gloucestershire, Duncan Clegg, and the Avon and Somerset Police Community
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Over 100 new jobs are being created at Yate Shopping Centre with the opening of three new retail units in the next few months. Within two weeks of the jobs being advertised on the Yate Shopping Centre website and Facebook page, there have been over 3,500 enquires. During May and June, Marks & Spencer Simply Food, Sports Direct and Costa
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Possible locations for additional housing development in the district will be discussed this week (Thursday 7th March) when the public examination of South Gloucestershire’s long-term planning blueprint, or Core Strategy, is re-opened for one day. Government-appointed Planning Inspector Paul Crysell reviewed the strategy in detail at a public examination last summer and proposed a number of modifications, including suggesting that
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Consultation has begun on South Gloucestershire’s first Health and Wellbeing Strategy and local people are being encouraged to have their say. Prepared by the district’s Health and Wellbeing Board, the strategy sets out a series of priorities to make sure that South Gloucestershire’s health and care services meet the needs of local people in the coming years. Among its draft
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Council Tax is set to be frozen for a third consecutive year in South Gloucestershire while the Living Wage will be introduced for low-paid council staff from October 2013, as part of three-party revenue budget proposals agreed by the council’s Policy & Resources Committee earlier this week. In the authority’s first budget proposals since moving to a committee system last
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