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Waste operatives loading recycling on to a truck

Council to explore options for new waste and recycling contract from 2025

Editor - 19th June 2023
Litter being thrown from a vehicle

South Gloucestershire Council takes action to help reduce littering from vehicles

New Local Plan 2018-2036

Have Your Say on New South Gloucestershire Local Plan – Consultation Ends 30th April

Traffic on a road including a lorry

Supermarket prosecuted for breaching conditions for out of hours deliveries

A box filled with bottles of seized fake hand sanitiser

Covid hand sanitiser fraud pair sent to prison

Fly-tipped waste

Fly-tippers face justice for illegally dumping waste in South Gloucestershire

jw47 - 31st March 2022
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Fly-tipped waste

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

Editor - 26th June 2025
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South Gloucestershire’s first ‘School Street’ to launch in Frampton Cotterell

jw47 - 22nd June 2020
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Green Infrastructure Strategy and Action Plan sets out practical steps to...

jw47 - 9th November 2021
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Bristol man given conditional discharge and ordered to pay £110 clear...

Editor - 29th April 2019
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Councillor Sam Bromiley, cabinet member responsible for children and young people; Council Leader Councillor Toby Savage; Councillor Elizabeth Bromiley; and Councillor Rachael Hunt, cabinet member responsible for communities and local place, at the former Warmley Pitch and Putt site

Location chosen for new Jubilee Park in South Gloucestershire

Editor - 26th August 2022
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Council Leader Toby Savage speaking at the West of England Nature Partnership conference.

Empower parish councils to spark a community-led nature revolution, urges council...

Editor - 9th June 2022
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Local Plan 2023 consultation launch

Consultation launches on new Local Plan to deliver affordable homes, jobs,...

jw47 - 7th December 2023
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A photograph of fly-tipped waste near a lamp post

Keynsham man ordered to pay £1,193 following South Gloucestershire fly-tip

Editor - 18th October 2022
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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
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the fly-tipped fridge freezer

Warmley man fined following South Gloucestershire fly-tip

Editor - 5th November 2025
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Councillor Reade planting wildflowers with Max and Kady Stuart

Mass wildflower planting on Siston Common sows the seeds for a...

jw47 - 7th October 2022
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South Glos collaborating with Town and Parish Councils on pioneering Local...

jw47 - 13th January 2022
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Gavel and judge

Frenchay man fined following South Gloucestershire fly-tip

Editor - 16th October 2025
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Land owner ordered to pay over £6,000 for waste offences

Editor - 23rd January 2019
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Landlords prosecuted for renting unsafe property

Editor - 15th December 2016
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An empty kitchen after Brown ripped out the units

Company director jailed for multiple thefts from customers

Editor - 30th June 2025
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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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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
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Licensing for larger privately rented properties set to change

Editor - 24th July 2018
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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
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Inefficient homes in South Gloucestershire and Gloucestershire set to benefit from...

Editor - 17th December 2021
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Sort It centre slip road gets green light as planning permission...

jw47 - 16th June 2022
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Fines and community service for successfully prosecuted fly-tipper

Editor - 11th December 2018
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Destroying protected trees costs developer £2,267.46

Editor - 1st February 2017
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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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Patchway Common buzzing again thanks to award-winning project

Editor - 13th November 2018
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South Gloucestershire Council to engage with local communities as it starts...

Editor - 18th September 2017
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An image of a cigarette end in the road

Bristol woman fined over £700 for littering in South Gloucestershire

Editor - 25th January 2023
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Major investment to prevent flooding on South Gloucestershire roads as resilience...

jw47 - 8th March 2021
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Patchway man prosecuted following Little Stoke fly-tip

Editor - 24th February 2021
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Red strong wind warning

An update on disruption caused by Storm Darragh

digital - 7th December 2024
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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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Council challenges planning decisions

Editor - 12th June 2018
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Page Park clock tower set for restoration

Editor - 1st June 2016
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Improvement work for recycling facility at Mangotsfield

Editor - 16th January 2017
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Roll out of new bins will help boost recycling rates

Editor - 11th January 2018
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Zero landfill aim for South Gloucestershire waste

jw47 - 12th March 2020
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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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Planters in Staple Hill, South Gloucestershire

Grants awarded to support sustainable planting projects across South Gloucestershire

jw47 - 13th March 2024
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A variety of scrap metal waste on the back of a flatbed truck

Bristol man ordered to pay £1,600 for illegally transporting scrap metal...

Editor - 26th January 2023
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A tractor and container for grass cuttings

Carbon reduction scheme to be rolled out to more South Gloucestershire...

Editor - 10th April 2024
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Members of the South Gloucestershire Food Partnership

New report on how food is made, sold and used locally

digital - 22nd May 2025
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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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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
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Public invited to hear more about changes to Thornbury High Street

jw47 - 24th August 2021
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St Albans man prosecuted for waste offences in South Gloucestershire

Editor - 27th November 2017
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Council employees recognised for public service

Editor - 1st June 2016
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Gavel and judge

Caerphilly man fined for fly-tipping fridge freezer

Editor - 6th October 2025
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