Local campaigners have revealed that a new CCTV system in Cadbury Heath has helped cut local crime by a whopping 25 per cent. Funded by South Gloucestershire Council, two new state-of-the-art cameras on School Road and Newton Road were switched on in September 2009, after campaigners called for action to tackle numerous incidences of anti-social behaviour and other more serious
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The district’s roads are benefiting from a sustained effort to identify and repair the damage caused by the unprecedented winter weather. Since this year’s pothole repair campaign started on 25 January, the council’s teams have already repaired over 1,200 potholes compared to 3,200 over the whole of 2009. This was made possible after the council put a plan in place
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Local history enthusiasts are invited to find out about some major Bristol landmarks with local researcher and film maker, Gordon Young. He will present three of his films at Staple Hill library on Wednesday 10 March. “Through Ticket to New York”is the story of Bristol’s funding of the Great Western Railway and the part it played in creating the first
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South Gloucestershire Council has welcomed the announcement that work is planned to start in the spring on a new £300million science park. The state of the art scheme – which will be located in Emersons Green, South Gloucestershire – will create around 6,000 high-skill and ancillary jobs and will help bring significant economic benefits to the West of England region
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South Gloucestershire Council is lending its support to celebrations to mark the centenary of aircraft production in the area. In 1910 the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company was founded in Filton, and later became known as the British Aeroplane Company, or more commonly as ‘BAC’ to generations of local people. The leader of the council, John Calway, and the chairman
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Police are appealing for people who may have seen a handbag snatch in the car park of a supermarket in the Kingswood area. The incident happened in the Somerfield car park in Halls Road between 2-2.15pm on Wednesday (February 10). The victim, aged 70, was sat in her car – a blue Volkswagen Polo – when a man male ran
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The Conservative administration on South Gloucestershire Council has announced plans for the district’s lowest ever council tax rise, despite being one of the lowest funded councils of its kind in the country. At 2.5 per cent for 2010/11, it would be the lowest council tax rise in the Council’s history and is in stark contrast to the huge rises seen
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Despite the challenging adverse weather, South Gloucestershire Council’s meals on wheels service has been busy delivering welcome hot meals to the district’s older residents. The service has experienced an increase of over 20 per cent in requests for meal deliveries as the severe weather has meant that many elderly and vulnerable residents have found it difficult to get to the
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Heavy falls of snow have disprupted transport and closed schools in South Gloucestershire. South Gloucestershire Council has set up a Severe Weather page on its website. Other useful links: BBC Bristol (FM: 94.9, 103.6, 104.6; DAB; Listen Live) Snow and travel information for Bristol and Bath Traffic information
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Proposals to help small businesses and defend the district against over-development are to be put in front of Ministers. In the summer, Conservative councillors drew up proposals that would see the government pay small business rate relief automatically and abolish regional planning, including the controversial Regional Spatial Strategy (RSS) document that calls for 32,800 new houses to be built in
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