The first residents have started moving into Cambrian Green Court in Yate – South Gloucestershire Council’s first multi-million pound extra care housing development. Councillor Matthew Riddle and staff from Cambrian Green Court met some of the new residents on Friday 28th January, including Eric Ball, who has moved there from Frome House, a care home in Yate. Cllr Riddle took
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Conservative councillors and campaigners have welcomed the approval of South Gloucestershire Council’s planning blueprint. Approved at a Full Council meeting in mid-December, the authority’s Core Strategy has set out plans for 21,500 more homes up to 2026, whilst protecting the countryside surrounding Chipping Sodbury, as well as the Shortwood Green Belt and Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). These
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Conservative councillors’ view of a recent decision by South Gloucestershire Council A call by ‘out of touch’ Labour and LibDem councillors on South Gloucestershire Council to think again on plans to provide hundreds more home care hours has been dismissed by the authority’s Conservative care chief. Following a special ‘call-in’ meeting of its Community Care & Housing Select Committee back
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Government cuts announced last month could mean that a local council is set to lose £500,000 that it had earmarked for spending on equipment for disabled residents, say Labour councillors. The fine print revealed by Conservative Chancellor George Osborne’s Comprehensive Spending Review of 20th October, shows that councils will no longer receive any money when council house tenants buy their
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Merlin Housing Society has reassured tenants that improvements to their homes due to be carried out by Connaught will still go ahead. Connaught, which called in administrators KPMG last week, is one of three companies carrying out Merlin’s decent homes improvement programme. It was appointed to the programme in 2007 and had fitted new kitchens and bathrooms in thousands of
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Young people have been airing their views on life in South Gloucestershire and the services provided by Merlin Housing Society. Twenty-five young people aged 16 to 25 attended a recent event specifically designed to allow them to have their say. Organised by Merlin and 1625 Independent People the event followed a similar one the housing society ran with its black
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The ground has been broken on the site of a new housing development in Kingswood. Merlin Housing Society’s chairman Les Good, who is a Merlin resident, got the work underway last week. Over the coming weeks and months two new buildings will be built on the site, providing ten new flats and a new Kingswood Housing Office. “This development will
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Merlin Housing Society is asking young people to give their views on the services it provides. The society houses more than 16,000 people in its 8,000 properties in South Gloucestershire, a third of who are aged under 25. Now Merlin is inviting people aged 16 – 24 to a meeting at Patchway Community Centre on Monday 28th June from 12
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Prospective Conservative MP for Kingswood, Chris Skidmore, with local councillors John Calway and Christine Price have launched a petition to stop inappropriate development on Green Belt Land in Longwell Green. Developers are looking to build hundreds of houses on Green Belt land behind Pearsall Road and Williams Close. This is thanks to the Government’s Regional Spatial Strategy (RSS) which looks
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A turf cutting ceremony is being held on Friday 12 March (11am until 11.30am) to mark the start of work on the latest South Gloucestershire Council extra care housing scheme. Fiveways, as it is currently known, is located on New Cheltenham Road in Kingswood and will provide 40 one and two bedroom flats to rent. There will be a range
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