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Cllr Ian Boulton and Cllr Maggie Tyrrell

South Gloucestershire Council calls on the Government to enforce planning requirements on EDF at Hinkley Point C to prevent critical levels of wildlife destruction

jw47 - 17th October 2024

A worker fixing a solar panel on a roof

South Glos Council to install solar PV systems on schools and other buildings over the next two years

Council publishes updated list of sites to be assessed for potential development

Fly-tipped waste at Serridge Lane

Frenchay man ordered to pay over £4,500 following rural lane fly-tip

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

A house under construction

Call for Sites map published, Council to assess potential development opportunities...

jw47 - 4th March 2021

Weekly recycling collections to resume in South Gloucestershire on 13 May

jw47 - 29th April 2020

Yate fly-tipper prosecuted

Editor - 17th December 2021

New land supply analysis strengthens council’s hand to resist speculative development

Editor - 18th December 2018

A stock image of black bin bags

Patchway man handed 12 month Community Order and ordered to pay...

Editor - 23rd January 2025

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

Gavel and judge

Rogue traders ordered to pay nearly £46,000

Editor - 4th September 2018

Councillor Ian Boulton and Councillor Louise Harris

South Gloucestershire Council launches ICaN initiative to drive nature recovery and...

Editor - 28th April 2026

Traffic on a road including a lorry

Supermarket prosecuted for breaching conditions for out of hours deliveries

Editor - 21st March 2025

Fly tippers prosecuted

Editor - 22nd August 2017

Measures being put in place to help social distancing and support...

jw47 - 24th June 2020

An image of a cigarette end in the road

Gloucester man fined £558 for littering in South Gloucestershire

Editor - 11th January 2023

Yate man fined after discovery of fly tipped hairdressing waste

Editor - 24th November 2016

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

South Gloucestershire Council reports on progress and challenges in tackling the...

jw47 - 22nd January 2025

A grass verge along Goose Green Way, Yate.

Trial for generating green energy launched in Yate

Editor - 11th September 2023

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

Gavel and judge

Landlord prosecuted for non-compliance of Improvement Notice

jw47 - 28th January 2020

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

Rogue traders fined and banned from cold calling anywhere in UK

jw47 - 12th September 2019

Symbol of a rubbish bin

Mangotsfield woman fined for littering

jw47 - 20th April 2023

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

Trees being planted.

Western Forest to become a new national forest

jw47 - 24th March 2025

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

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

Editor - 5th February 2019

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

An aerial image of the green South Gloucestershire countryside

Have your say on South Gloucestershire’s Climate Change Strategy

Editor - 19th December 2017

Bristol man prosecuted for waste offences in South Gloucestershire

Editor - 1st February 2018

Gavel and judge

Caerphilly man fined for fly-tipping fridge freezer

Editor - 6th October 2025

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

jw47 - 8th July 2021

Pontypool man sentenced following multiple fly-tips in South Gloucestershire

jw47 - 17th July 2019

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

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

Prosecution follows waste filmed thrown from car window

Editor - 10th January 2017

West of England Enterprise Area flood defence work gathers pace

Editor - 11th December 2020

Waste dumped next to a tree near a path

Yate woman prosecuted following Chipping Sodbury fly-tip

Editor - 23rd May 2023

A photograph of the fly-tipped waste discovered in Severn Beach

Bristol man ordered to pay £359 following South Gloucestershire fly-tips

Editor - 19th October 2022

Have your say on changes to Thornbury High Street

jw47 - 21st July 2020

A large pile of tyres

Cadbury Heath man handed Conditional Discharge and fined for illegally storing...

Editor - 28th April 2026

Fly-tipped bin bags

Downend woman fined for fly-tipping bin bags

Editor - 17th October 2025

South Gloucestershire News March 2022

March 2022 edition of South Gloucestershire News

Editor - 18th March 2022

Fly-tipped waste at Serridge Lane

Frenchay man ordered to pay over £4,500 following rural lane fly-tip

Editor - 14th May 2025

Symbol of a rubbish bin

Three people prosecuted for littering offences in South Gloucestershire

Editor - 22nd February 2023

A photograph of fly-tipped waste in Filton

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

Editor - 20th October 2022

Bristol landlord fined thousands for failing to make repairs to Kingswood...

jw47 - 8th September 2020

Staple Hill’s Page Park receives National Lottery investment

Editor - 1st June 2016

Patchway Common buzzing again thanks to award-winning project

Editor - 13th November 2018

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

A dropped kerb under construction

Driveway company ordered to pay over £33,000 following fly-posting, waste and...

Editor - 16th May 2024

South Gloucestershire Council shortlisted for recycling award

Editor - 1st June 2016

Downend man prosecuted for failing to comply with Community Protection Notice

Editor - 29th March 2018

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