Two men have been charged after police searched a house in Kingswood on Tuesday September 28th 2010 and recovered a motorbike stolen in Longwell Green the day before. Officers from the Neighbourhood Team and the South Gloucestershire Priority Crime Team also recovered two bicycles stolen from Kingswood and Bridgeyate in the search. Six young men aged between 15 and 18
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A ceremony to mark work starting on site at the new Kingswood Children’s Locality Hub has taken place. Councillors were joined by representatives from health and building contractors Wates to turn the first sod at the site, which is located behind the civic centre on Alma Road. Once complete, South Gloucestershire Council, NHS South Gloucestershire and North Bristol NHS Trust
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Opposition is growing to plans by a Kingswood industrial estate to increase its hours of operation. A planning application has been submitted by the owners of the Bridge Road Industrial Estate to extend their hours of operation from 08:00 – 18.00 to 07:00 – 19:00 Monday to Friday and from 08:00 – 13:00 to 07:00 – 17:00 Saturdays. Local residents
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A launch event has been held to mark the start of work on a new school for pupils with behavioural, emotional and social difficulties (BESD) in South Gloucestershire. The school will offer primary and secondary provision on two sites, with the celebration marking the start of work on the project at Mulberry Drive in Kingswood, which will provide a safe,
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Local residents living on a steep Kingswood road are being encouraged to have their say on a road safety scheme to tackle speeding motorists. South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) has begun consulting on the provision of a new footway build out, new white lining and a new dropped kerb crossing point at the junction of Champion Road and Pound Road. The
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The Cycling City project has provided match funding to local charity the Kingswood Foundation to provide secure, covered cycle parking for young people and staff. The new cycle parking facility has proved to be very popular and since completion the number of people cycling to the site has increased. To celebrate the opening of their new cycle parking facility, the
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Police are appealing for witnesses and information following an assault in Kingswood on Saturday 25th July. At around 3am a 27-year-old man was about to enter a fast food outlet on Regent Street when he was approached by an unknown man who assaulted him and dragged him down London street. The assault stopped when a member of the public intervened.
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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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NHS South Gloucestershire and construction company ISG Pearce have signed a contract for the refurbishment of Cossham Hospital. This paves the way for builders to move onto site on 1 June. The strategic health authority NHS South West announced in March 2008 that £19 million has been set aside for the redevelopment of Cossham Hospital. Plans to redevelop the hospital
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Voting in the three parliamentary constituencies in South Gloucestershire has seen two Conservative and one Liberal Democrat candidates selected to represent the area in the House of Commons. The biggest surprise came in Kingswood where the sitting MP Roger Berry (Labour) was ousted by Chris Skidmore (Conservative) thanks to a 9.4% swing from Labour to Conservative. Incumbent Steve Webb (Liberal
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