South Glos Council’s joint Lib Dem & Labour Cabinet will meet next week to consider proposals for next year’s budget that include details of “incredibly difficult” decisions to reduce spending and increase charges. The new draft budget does not propose to make new savings, but does provide details of cost-cutting that was approved in the Conservatives’ last budget agreed in February.
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A new free shuttle bus is being laid on to try to ease traffic chaos and delays from the long-term closure of a bridge over the M4 in South Gloucestershire. The half-hourly service will start on Thursday 14th September, to take passengers from Yate Park & Ride via Coalpit Heath to the Cuckoo Lane junction on the A432 Badminton Road, from where it is a short walk to…
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A long-running strike by waste and recycling operatives across South Gloucestershire is officially over after union members voted to accept a new, improved 10 percent pay increase. Kerbside collections had been disrupted since Monday 12th June as around 150 employees of SUEZ, the council’s waste contractor, took industrial action in support of a 15 percent pay claim.
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Kerbside waste and recycling collections in South Glos are set to resume in full from Monday (31st July) after strike action was suspended. The Little Stoke Sort It recycling centre, which has been closed due to a lack of staff during the strike, will reopen from the same date. Unite the Union says it is suspending industrial action for three days while it ballots its members on an improved pay offer.
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Traffic problems caused by the closure of a bridge over the M4 look set to last until at least the end of the year. National Highways closed the A432 Badminton Road overbridge on the main road between Bristol and Yate earlier this month after finding “accelerated deterioration and cracking” to the south-east underside of the structure, which was built in 1966.
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Council leaders have created an “environmental and public health crisis” through lack of action over bin strikes in South Gloucestershire, it is claimed. Waste has quickly piled up and recycling ‘bring banks’ are overwhelmed as residents have no kerbside collections other than black bins, while one of the district’s four Sort It recycling and waste centres, Little Stoke, has had to shut…
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Residents affected by the ongoing bin workers’ strike in South Gloucestershire can now take their recycling and food waste (but not garden waste) to a number of additional drop-off points that have opened today (Monday 3rd July). In addition, there will be further recycling-only bins available from 12noon on Tuesday 4th July.
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Black bin collections could be reduced to just once a month and garden waste fees hiked from £30 to as much as £75 under controversial plans being considered by South Gloucestershire Council. Changes to how the service is run are needed because the council’s 25-year Private Finance Initiative (PFI) with Suez ends in July 2025.
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Waste and recycling collections in South Gloucestershire are being impacted by strike action being taken by employees of Suez, the council’s waste contractor. The strike began today, Monday 12th June, and is set to run until Sunday 18th June, with a second phase spanning two weeks planned from Monday 26th June until Sunday 9th July.
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The Lib Dems and Labour have finally agreed to form a coalition to run South Gloucestershire Council. The alliance will replace the Conservatives who were in power since 2015 but lost their overall majority at the polls on Thursday 4th May, although they remain the largest single group with 23 councillors compared with 20 Liberal Democrats and 17 Labour members.
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