Bus users in South Gloucestershire are to benefit from a new £1.3m Government grant to help improve services in the West of England. The award from the Department for Transport’s ‘Better Bus Area’ scheme will be used to improve services on eight routes including the A38 from Bristol to Thornbury and the A420 from Bristol to Kingswood Town Centre. The
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South Gloucestershire residents are set to have even more opportunities to recycle their household waste, following a majority decision by councillors last night (Tuesday 10th September), but they will have to start paying for the collection of garden waste. Plans to include mixed plastics, drinks cartons and small electrical items within kerbside recycling services from next year were approved by
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A national scheme to extend free early years education to two-year-olds living in low-income households has got off to a flying start in South Gloucestershire. Some 479 children have had places provided by the council under the scheme, a take-up rate of 87 per cent of all eligible children. The government had originally allocated funding for 439 places in South
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South Gloucestershire Council has received an outstanding achievement award for reducing carbon emissions across its properties and operations by more than ten per cent over the last four years. It was one of eight organisations to receive the award at the West of England Carbon Challenge (WECC) Carbon Champions Awards on Monday 15th July. The council’s greatest accomplishments in reducing
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Filton and Bradley Stoke MP Jack Lopresti has called on South Gloucestershire Council to do more to improve transport locally. Mr Lopresti has made the call after supporting a number of transport initiatives but he believes the council must go further, saying: “One of local people’s main concerns about our local area is the existing and future transport infrastructure. Public
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Staff who helped residents enjoy the Olympic Torch pass safely through the streets of South Gloucestershire have been named ‘team of the year’ at South Gloucestershire Council. Their work was commended during the council’s annual Pride Awards on Monday (17th June), designed to acknowledge the hard work of council staff in providing excellent services to residents. Chief Executive Amanda Deeks
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Two new parish councils could be created in South Gloucestershire following the council’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) next Wednesday (22nd May). Councillors will be invited to approve recommendations to create a town council for Emersons Green and a parish council for Stoke Lodge and The Common. The recommendations follow the council’s recent review of its community governance arrangements, which considered
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April marks the completion of a range of improvements to three cycle and pedestrian routes across South Gloucestershire, thanks to a grant from the Government’s Local Sustainable Transport Fund (LSTF). A growing number of cyclists are now benefiting from the improvements which build upon the network constructed during the Cycling City project – completing missing links and providing more continuous
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Government planning inspector Mr Paul Crysell is expected to deliver his final report on South Gloucestershire’s Core Strategy in June, following a further consultation period that began last Friday (22nd March). Over the next six weeks he will be inviting members of the public to comment on modifications to the strategy that he believes are necessary to make it ‘sound’
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Possible locations for additional housing development in the district will be discussed this week (Thursday 7th March) when the public examination of South Gloucestershire’s long-term planning blueprint, or Core Strategy, is re-opened for one day. Government-appointed Planning Inspector Paul Crysell reviewed the strategy in detail at a public examination last summer and proposed a number of modifications, including suggesting that
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