Local campaigner, Matthew Riddle, has welcomed the completion of resurfacing work on the main arterial road through the village of Tockington. Lower Tockington Road was one the roads included in this year’s much larger road resurfacing programme after South Gloucestershire Council’s Conservative administration more than doubled the resurfacing budget from £1.5m to £3.5m. The road’s poor state of repair had
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Stoke Gifford campaigners have blasted the Highways Agency for forcing South Gloucestershire Council to withdraw a planning application to provide a new Park and Ride facility behind Bristol Parkway station. The congestion-busting scheme would have provided around 200 parking spaces adjacent to Hunts Ground Road in Stoke Gifford (and near to Parkway Station) and helped tackle the issue of the
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Local councillors have welcomed the switching on of a CCTV system to monitor an anti-social behaviour hotspot in Cadbury Heath, South Gloucestershire. Funded by South Gloucestershire Council, the two new state-of-the-art cameras have been erected on School Road and Newton Road, after calls from the local community for action to tackle numerous incidences of anti-social behaviour and other more serious
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South Gloucestershire Council’s Conservative planning chief has accused the Labour government of contradicting itself, following its admission of shortcomings in the way it has prepared its controversial planning blueprint for the region. The Government has confirmed plans to carry out a new ‘Sustainability Appraisal’ after admitting flaws in how it has drawn up its latest draft of the Regional Spatial
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Filton’s Conservative councillors have welcomed a decision by South Gloucestershire Council’s property chief to put on hold the planned sale of Conygre House in Filton. Following a series of meetings with Filton’s Conservative councillors and the Save Conygre House campaign group, South Gloucestershire Council’s property chief, Cllr Allan Higgs, has agreed to put on hold plans agreed in 2005 by
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South Gloucestershire Council’s planning chief has criticised the government for claiming that its controversial planning blueprint should be implemented, despite the document being in ‘legal limbo’. The Council has been told by the Government that: “The RSS [Regional Spatial Strategy] has reached such an advanced stage that we [the Government] would expect it now to be given considerable weight in
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Kingswood campaigners have questioned the legality of Bristol City Council’s plans to cut various bus services. The legal concerns follow the disclosure that the Liberal Democrat administration broke its own rules with the way it consulted on its plans to cut Sunday services on the cross-boundary 5 and 7 services from the end of September. From 24th June to 8th
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The £300K development of a children’s centre at Severn Beach Primary School has reached two huge milestones. Not only has planning permission recently been granted to landscape some of the school grounds to create a children’s play area, but this week has seen work finish on the main internal re-modelling work needed to create the children’s centre. Internal re-modelling work
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News that another safe crossing point is to be installed across a busy Thornbury road has been welcomed by locals. A light controlled ‘puffin’ crossing is to be built across Grovesend Road near the junction of Sibland Road, Thornbury, as part of plans to provide a ‘safer route to school’ for children attending the town’s nearby Crossways Infant and Junior
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