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A photo of a car next to several black bin bags in a car park area

Stoke Gifford man ordered to pay over £1,500 following fly-tip in South Gloucestershire

Editor - 7th February 2023
scrap metal

Yate man fined for transporting scrap metal without the required licences

New ‘School Streets’ in Kingswood and Yate to help clear the air for pupils

Have Your Say: Council launches public consultation on 2018/19 budget

A house under construction

Call for Sites map published, Council to assess potential development opportunities as part of new Local Plan making

Councillor Louise Harris at a recent tree planting event with pupils from Warmley Park school

South Gloucestershire Council’s climate and nature emergency progress outlined in annual...

Editor - 7th December 2023
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Flood gate testing

ASEA flood defence project commissions flood gates and glass panel flood...

Editor - 1st March 2023
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Waste operatives loading recycling on to a truck

South Gloucestershire’s impressive recycling rate continues to rise

Editor - 28th March 2023
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A water vole

Water voles settle into new home at one of UK’s newest...

Editor - 20th June 2023
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Public invited to hear more about changes to Thornbury High Street

jw47 - 24th August 2021
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School children presented with award for local litter pick

jw47 - 21st January 2020
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A black and white image of the former Frog Lane Colliery

South Gloucestershire Council explores using local mines as a source of...

Editor - 15th December 2022
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Food Partnership group discussion

New action plan launched to strengthen South Gloucestershire’s food system

Editor - 29th May 2026
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New multi-million pound housing development under way in South Gloucestershire

Editor - 20th December 2016
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Launch of Call For Sites process as part of developing the...

Editor - 8th July 2020
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central heating radiator

Funding to help heat homes

Simon - 2nd September 2015
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Yate man fined after discovery of fly tipped hairdressing waste

Editor - 24th November 2016
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Final draft of the West of England Joint Spatial Plan to...

Editor - 25th October 2017
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a fly-tipped sofa on the roadside

Gwent man handed 120 hours community service and ordered to pay...

Editor - 13th January 2025
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Green ecological house in empty field

Energy efficient Malmains Drive development progresses

Editor - 31st March 2022
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New Local Plan approved for public consultation

Editor - 9th October 2020
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Have your say on the Resource and Waste Strategy: 2020 and...

jw47 - 15th August 2019
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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
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Little Stoke fly tipper prosecuted

Editor - 21st June 2018
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Thornbury man prosecuted following country lane fly-tip

Editor - 28th August 2020
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Waste operatives loading recycling on to a truck

Council to explore options for new waste and recycling contract from...

Editor - 19th June 2023
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Land owner ordered to pay over £6,000 for waste offences

Editor - 23rd January 2019
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Councillor Rachael Hunt, Jacqui Harris, Martin Burton and Lucy Rees with the thermal imaging cameras

South Gloucestershire Council and Warm and Well bring thermal camera technology...

Editor - 8th November 2022
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Gavel and judge

Partnership working secures Criminal Behaviour Order first for council

Editor - 22nd August 2017
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A worker fixing a solar panel on a roof

South Glos Council to install solar PV systems on schools and...

jw47 - 9th December 2024
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The empty home at Marshfield

House owners prosecuted over empty and unmaintained property

Editor - 9th July 2025
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Plan for Yate investment unveiled

Editor - 13th December 2021
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Sign on fence saying No tipping or dumping

Mangotsfield man ordered to pay over £2,000 following fly-tip prosecution

Editor - 23rd August 2022
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A photograph of buildings, roads and pathways in Charlton Hayes

30-year vision for South Gloucestershire neighbourhoods unveiled

Editor - 10th October 2022
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An image of the Sevrnside coast looking out to the Severn Bridge

Communities in Severnside invited to help shape future of the area

Editor - 9th June 2022
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A grass verge along Goose Green Way, Yate.

Trial for generating green energy launched in Yate

Editor - 11th September 2023
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Mangotsfield woman prosecuted following fly-tip in South Gloucestershire

Editor - 19th February 2019
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Recycling and containers

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

Editor - 8th April 2024
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An image of green waste on a trailer

Thornbury man handed 12-month conditional discharge for illegally transporting waste in...

Editor - 11th January 2023
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Warehouse

South Glos Council Leaders write to Secretary of State asking for...

jw47 - 2nd July 2026
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Green light for next stage of Avonmouth Severnside Enterprise Area flood...

Editor - 12th March 2019
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Councillor Erica Williams, cabinet member responsible for schools at South Gloucestershire Council, with children at Barley Close Community Primary School

South Gloucestershire schools receive top grades for encouraging sustainable travel

Editor - 28th September 2022
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Have your say about how South Gloucestershire grows for our future...

jw47 - 27th November 2020
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Waste dumped next to a tree near a path

Yate woman prosecuted following Chipping Sodbury fly-tip

Editor - 23rd May 2023
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Warm and Well is offering grants to make homes that aren't connected to the mains gas network, more energy efficient.

Six million funding offers energy-saving home improvements for off-gas properties across...

jw47 - 26th July 2023
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Cllr Ian Boulton and Cllr Maggie Tyrrell

South Gloucestershire Council calls on the Government to enforce planning requirements...

jw47 - 17th October 2024
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Council challenges Charfield planning decision

Editor - 4th September 2018
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Black bin bags amongst vegetation

Emersons Green man ordered to pay over £1,000 following Warmley fly-tip

Editor - 16th November 2023
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Flood defence project progress impresses West of England Leaders

jw47 - 5th July 2021
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First South Gloucestershire Tree Week launches

jw47 - 29th November 2019
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Children reap benefits from outdoor play session

Editor - 6th October 2016
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Bristol man given conditional discharge and ordered to pay £110 clear...

Editor - 29th April 2019
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Number of affordable homes built in South Gloucestershire reaches record high

Editor - 8th August 2018
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Residents encouraged to help shape plans for Jubilee Park as potential...

jw47 - 1st June 2022
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An image of a model of a house held up against the sun

South Gloucestershire continues to lead the way on delivering new affordable...

Editor - 26th May 2022
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An artist’s impression of how Kingswood clock tower could look following refurbishment.

Kingswood town centre improvement work begins

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Chair of South Gloucestershire Council, councillor Adrian Rush (right) is joined by a family (centre) and member of staff (left), at Emersons Green Library to mark the launch of the Summer Reading Challenge 2026.

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