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Tom Hampson, volunteer at Hedgehog Rescue, Councillor Steve Reade, cabinet member responsible for the environment at South Gloucestershire Council, and Yvonne Cox, founder of Hedgehog Rescue in Yate

Become a hedgehog hero and help our hedgehogs thrive

Editor - 1st February 2023

Council employees recognised for public service

Council challenges planning decisions

A photograph of grass and wildflowers on the roadside

South Gloucestershire Council partnered project set to receive £4.7 million Live Labs 2 highways decarbonisation funding

Climate and nature graphic

Council signs up to Climate and Nature Bill

Michael Thompson from the Bristol Avon Rivers Trust, Jen Nightingale and Carys Peotto from the Bristol Zoological Society UK conservation team, Rowena Kenny from South Gloucestershire Council’s Climate and Nature Team and Councillor Louise Harris, South Gloucestershire Council’s cabinet member for the Climate and Nature Emergency.

Funding secured to help restore nature along the Severn Estuary

Editor - 4th September 2024

COVID-19 enforcement action

Editor - 30th April 2020

Ambitious new recycling service given the go-ahead

Editor - 6th October 2016

A photograph of the damaged Sycamore tree, a trench and a pile of damaged roots

Bradley Stoke man ordered to pay over £9,000 for severely damaging...

Editor - 22nd February 2023

flooded road

A review of recent flooding in South Gloucestershire

digital - 29th November 2024

A photograph of fly-tipped waste in Filton

Severn Beach man fined £1,588 for fly-tipping in South Gloucestershire

Editor - 20th October 2022

Commercial vehicles carrying poorly secured loads stopped to help tackle roadside...

Editor - 24th May 2022

Gavel and judge

Bradley Stoke builder ordered to pay over £11,000 for breaching building...

Editor - 21st January 2019

Fly-tipped waste

Chepstow man handed 80 hours community service and ordered to pay...

Editor - 26th June 2025

Green ecological house in empty field

Energy efficient Malmains Drive development progresses

Editor - 31st March 2022

Fly-tipped waste

Bristol man ordered to pay almost £2,000 following South Gloucestershire fly-tip

Editor - 18th March 2024

Councillor Steve Reade is pictured with Marshfield residents, including members of the parish council, Marshfield Community Centre and Sustainable Marshfield.

Council commits to more electric vehicle charge points

jw47 - 15th March 2023

An image of a cigarette end in the road

Gloucester man fined £558 for littering in South Gloucestershire

Editor - 11th January 2023

Black bin bags dumped on a green space

Lyde Green man fined £368 following South Gloucestershire fly-tip

Editor - 10th July 2024

Daphne Dunning, Clerk of Pucklechurch Parish Council; Councillor Rick Dunning, Pucklechurch Parish Council environment lead; Councillor Gail Boyle, Chair of Pucklechurch Parish Council; Councillor Maggie Tyrrell, Leader, South Gloucestershire Council; Councillor Louise Harris, South Gloucestershire Council’s cabinet member for the climate and nature emergency; Richard Higgs, Director, Western Forest; Laura Norton, Partnerships Manager for the Forest of Avon and Mia Ridler, Green Infrastructure Officer, West of England Combined Authority.

First trees planted in Pucklechurch Wood as landmark step towards creating...

Editor - 28th November 2025

Changes to the Sort It centres

Simon - 2nd September 2015

Councillor Louise Harris with councillor Paul Hulbert from Dodington Parish Council and community volunteers.

Local communities take climate and nature action

Editor - 15th May 2024

CCTV of a man removing waste from a vehicle

Yate man ordered to pay over £4,500 following multiple South Gloucestershire...

Editor - 16th November 2023

New Local Plan 2018-2036

South Gloucestershire launches 12 week consultation on new Local Plan

Simon - 6th February 2018

A photograph of buildings, roads and pathways in Charlton Hayes

30-year vision for South Gloucestershire neighbourhoods unveiled

Editor - 10th October 2022

Planning changes will encourage greater engagement

Editor - 24th July 2018

Residents encouraged to help shape plans for Jubilee Park as potential...

jw47 - 1st June 2022

Roll out of new bins will help boost recycling rates

Editor - 11th January 2018

New homes and primary school for Warmley on old Grange School...

Editor - 22nd October 2021

An image of cardboard boxes and packaging waste fly-tipped on the roadside

Yate man ordered to pay more than £1,200 following South Gloucestershire...

Editor - 31st January 2023

An aerial image of the green South Gloucestershire countryside

Have your say on South Gloucestershire’s Climate Change Strategy

Editor - 19th December 2017

Common Connections officer David Tibbatts, Bobbie Sutherland and Paul Kearsley from Emersons Green Town Council, and Councillor Louise Harris at the bulb planting

Common Connections project sees over 85,000 spring bulbs planted in South...

Editor - 18th December 2024

A banner van parked on the roadside

Yate Indian takeaway ordered to pay over £4,400 following fly-posting offences

Editor - 16th October 2024

Change in governance arrangements introduced

Editor - 18th May 2017

Patchway Common buzzing again thanks to award-winning project

Editor - 13th November 2018

New planning process will open up and improve application times and...

Editor - 1st November 2018

South Gloucestershire Council Partner Lead Members for Communities and Local Place, Councillor Jayne Stansfield, and Climate and Nature Emergency, Councillor Alex Doyle, were joined by Mayor Dan Norris and local residents to mark the start of project to sow the wildflower meadows. at Jubilee Park.

Heavy horsepower harnessed to sustainably sow wildflower meadows

jw47 - 15th September 2023

Have your say at Community Engagement Forums

Editor - 6th October 2016

Work to start at railway bridge to support cyclist and pedestrian...

jw47 - 20th August 2021

Recycling and containers

Plastic bags and wrapping recycling to expand to reach 22,000 South...

Editor - 8th April 2024

Gavel and judge

North Somerset rogue trader sentenced for conning NHS worker from Thornbury

jw47 - 26th April 2021

The exterior of Badminton Road office in Yate.

Wind power project for Pucklechurch to be explored in detail as...

jw47 - 15th July 2025

An image of the Sevrnside coast looking out to the Severn Bridge

Vision for coastal communities in Severnside unveiled

Editor - 16th November 2022

Roger Loveridge Chairman of the Patchway and Charlton Hayes Community Sports Association, Councillor Rachael Hunt cabinet member responsible for communities at South Gloucestershire Council, Councillor Dayley Lawrence Mayor of Patchway, and Jack Turner Clerk at Patchway Town Council

Council secures more than £700,000 to provide new sports facilities...

Editor - 21st March 2023

Siston man prosecuted following fly-tip in Henfield, South Gloucestershire

jw47 - 8th July 2021

Major investment to prevent flooding on South Gloucestershire roads as resilience...

jw47 - 8th March 2021

Plan for Yate investment unveiled

Editor - 13th December 2021

Gavel and judge

Landlord prosecuted for non-compliance of Improvement Notice

jw47 - 28th January 2020

A photograph of the waste pile before and after it had been set alight

Yate men handed suspended sentences, fines and behaviour orders for waste...

Editor - 2nd November 2023

South Gloucestershire’s Discover Festival

Editor - 6th October 2016

Symbol of a rubbish bin

Mangotsfield woman fined for littering

jw47 - 20th April 2023

Gritting fleet prepared for cold period

Editor - 30th November 2015

A large blue bag full of empty whipped cream cannisters

Bristol man ordered to pay almost £1,300 following South Gloucestershire fly-tip

Editor - 30th April 2024

Wick man prosecuted for waste offences

Editor - 11th October 2018

Prosecution follows waste filmed thrown from car window

Editor - 10th January 2017

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