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Traffic on a road including a lorry

Supermarket prosecuted for breaching conditions for out of hours deliveries

Editor - 21st March 2025
Councillor Rachael Hunt at a South Gloucestershire Sort It recycling centre.

South Gloucestershire recycling rates continue to break records

Christmas and New Year waste collections

a bonfire burning at Rangeworthy Court

Bristol waste collector ordered to pay over £15,000 for setting alight waste at historic manor house

Kingswood MP Chris Skidmore and South Gloucestershire Council Leader Cllr Toby Savage with representatives of the Friends of Southey Park planting the new trees at Southey Park

South Gloucestershire Council plants over 600 new trees across the area this season

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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South Gloucestershire Council aims for fresh approach to managing waste collections...

Editor - 5th February 2019
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Improvement work for recycling facility at Mangotsfield

Editor - 16th January 2017
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Kingswood MP Chris Skidmore and South Gloucestershire Council Leader Cllr Toby Savage with representatives of the Friends of Southey Park planting the new trees at Southey Park

South Gloucestershire Council plants over 600 new trees across the area...

Editor - 10th March 2022
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South Gloucestershire Council commits to phasing out single use plastics

Editor - 1st March 2019
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An aerial image of the green South Gloucestershire countryside

Council secures £50k to protect green belt from illegal development

jw47 - 23rd September 2019
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Rogue traders fined and banned from cold calling anywhere in UK

jw47 - 12th September 2019
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The Avonmouth Severnside Enterprise Area (ASEA) Ecology Mitigation and Flood Defence Project has been shortlisted for a prestigious civil engineering award.

ASEA Ecology Mitigation and Flood Defence Project shortlisted for a prestigious...

jw47 - 8th July 2024
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Children and staff from The Park Primary School in Kingswood celebrate their Modeshift STARS accreditation.

South Gloucestershire schools top national league table for sustainable and...

jw47 - 12th June 2025
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Traffic on a road including a lorry

Supermarket prosecuted for breaching conditions for out of hours deliveries

Editor - 21st March 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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Have your say on the Resource and Waste Strategy: 2020 and...

jw47 - 15th August 2019
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Fly-tipped waste on the roadside

Bristol woman fined following South Gloucestershire fly-tip

Editor - 15th December 2025
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New land supply analysis strengthens council’s hand to resist speculative development

Editor - 18th December 2018
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Advertising signs on a pallet propped against a traffic light signal

Driveway business ordered to pay over £4,500 for illegal fly posting

Editor - 20th March 2024
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Gavel and judge

Rogue mattress seller prosecuted

jw47 - 30th September 2019
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An artists impression of how Regent Street in Kingswood could look in the future

Kingswood Masterplan gains approval unlocking a future vision that will bring...

Editor - 8th April 2022
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Thousands of tonnes of carbon reduced and millions saved as LED...

jw47 - 21st December 2021
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low emission bus

Low emission bus announcement

Simon - 29th August 2017
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Gavel and judge

North Somerset rogue trader sentenced for conning NHS worker from Thornbury

jw47 - 26th April 2021
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Slough man prosecuted for failing to comply with Community Protection Notice

Editor - 17th April 2018
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Litter alongside the A4174 ring road

Kingswood man ordered to pay over £500 for driving with unsecured...

Editor - 15th August 2024
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West of England Joint Spatial Plan Submitted to Government for Review

Editor - 13th April 2018
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Wildflowers in South Gloucestershire

Double celebration as South Glos Council celebrates an A rating for...

jw47 - 5th June 2025
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Councillors Louise Harris (right) and Angela Morey (left) cutting a celebration cake, along with other members of the South Gloucestershire Council Administration

South Gloucestershire Council celebrates 5 years of climate and nature action

jw47 - 18th July 2024
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Fly-tippers prosecuted for waste offences in South Gloucestershire

jw47 - 3rd December 2021
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New waste contract to cut costs and litter

jw47 - 6th November 2019
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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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An image of fly-tipped waste in Hanham

Bristol man ordered to pay over £500 following fly-tip in South...

Editor - 15th December 2022
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Gavel and judge

Rogue traders ordered to pay nearly £46,000

Editor - 4th September 2018
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cctv footage

Bradley Stoke man fined following South Gloucestershire fly-tip

Editor - 28th January 2026
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Climate and Nature Emergency progress report marked by community projects and...

jw47 - 10th December 2020
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Teachers and children planting new trees

Free voucher scheme aims to encourage tree planting in South Gloucestershire

Editor - 30th November 2022
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Downend man prosecuted for failing to comply with Community Protection Notice

Editor - 29th March 2018
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Gritting fleet prepared for cold period

Editor - 30th November 2015
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Waste spilling from a black bin bag on the pavement

Hair salon owner ordered to pay over £1,500 after business waste...

Editor - 15th October 2024
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Emersons Green woman prosecuted for waste offences

Editor - 21st December 2017
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Single use cups and plastic cutlery to be removed from council...

Editor - 4th July 2018
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Council Leader Councillor Toby Savage next to solar panels

South Gloucestershire recognised among top-10 Councils in National Climate Emergency Action...

jw47 - 27th January 2022
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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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The exterior of Badminton Road office in Yate.

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

jw47 - 15th July 2025
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Cllr Louise Harris taking part in tree planting at the new Pucklechurch Woodland

Report on biodiversity in South Gloucestershire shows council and communities working...

jw47 - 10th March 2026
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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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Trees being planted.

Western Forest to become a new national forest

jw47 - 24th March 2025
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Little Stoke Sort It recycling centre to reopen

jw47 - 2nd July 2020
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High Street changes to support traders and environment developed to help...

jw47 - 28th May 2021
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Bristol man receives 68 week sentence after being prosecuted for fly...

Editor - 2nd February 2018
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flooded road

A review of recent flooding in South Gloucestershire

digital - 29th November 2024
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Symbol of a rubbish bin

Mangotsfield woman fined for littering

jw47 - 20th April 2023
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How Bristol Parkway might look in the future.

Bristol Parkway to become station for the 21st century

jw47 - 6th December 2022
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