A Labour-LibDem proposal to scale back a multi-million pound refurbishment of Kingswood Leisure Centre has been rejected by more than two-thirds of respondents to a public consultation, according to Conservative councillors on South Gloucestershire Council. After an earlier consultation attracted only a limited response, a further independent consultation was carried out using a variety of different techniques, including local roadshows
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Road safety schemes costing as little as a few hundred pounds have been put on hold by South Gloucestershire Council (SGC), according to a group of Labour councillors in Kingswood. Officials working for Conservative-led SGC have had to stop working on small road safety schemes because transport chiefs in charge of the Council have frozen their budget. However, junior officials
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Three stores sold alcohol to under-18s in a test-purchase operation run by police and South Gloucestershire Trading Standards. Two clearly under-age girls tried to buy alcohol in eight off licences and convenience stores in Downend, Kingswood, Mangotsfield and Warmley in the operation on Friday 5th November 2010. The teenage volunteers were able to buy alcohol in two Kingswood stores and
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Community leaders in Kingswood have expressed relief that planned enhancements to play equipment for local open spaces will still be going ahead despite government cuts. South Gloucestershire Council had been forced to put its plans for the Woodstock Open Space between Somerton Close, Glanville Gardens and Wedmore Close on hold earlier this year after the new Conservative-Lib Dem coalition government
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The new multi-million pound Courtney Primary School has been officially opened. The development, funded by South Gloucestershire Council and built by Cowlin Construction, opened its doors to pupils at the start of the Autumn term and the children are already settling in and enjoying their new surroundings. Councillor Sheila Cook said: “The new school is a fantastic facility for pupils,
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Police are appealing for witnesses and information after a man was assaulted in Kingswood. The incident occurred yesterday (Sunday 31st October) at around 11pm on Hanham road, Kingswood near to Beacon’s Rise School. A 21-year-old man was approached by a dark coloured vehicle. A man got out of this vehicle and hit the victim on the back of the head
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Campaigning councillors have expressed their delight after an application to increase a Kingswood industrial estate’s working hours was thrown out by planners. In August, a planning application was submitted by the owners of the Bridge Road Industrial Estate to extend their hours of operation from 8:00 – 18:00 to 7:00 – 19:00 Monday to Friday and from 8:00 – 13:00
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A new school for primary-aged children has been downsized after cuts imposed by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government. South Gloucestershire Council’s plans to build a new school in Kingswood for 15 primary-aged children with Behavioural, Emotional and Social Difficulties (BESD) have been changed after the coalition government announced it was snatching back a grant of £660,000 already allocated for new
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Police are appealing for information and witnesses following an assault that occurred recently in Kingswood. At around 2am in the morning of Sunday 26th September, the victim was stood on the corner of Regent Street and London Street when he was approached by a man who punched him with such force he fell and hit his head. The victim was
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Developers in Kingswood have been given permission from the local council for a new set of proposals for a former nightclub. South Gloucestershire Council has granted permission for the demolition of the Rotunda club on Moravian Road and for it to be replaced by a development of over 1000 sq.m. of office space and 14 flats. The developers intend to
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