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Litter being thrown from a vehicle

South Gloucestershire Council takes action to help reduce littering from vehicles

Editor - 1st November 2023

Recycle every week from 19 June

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 new Western Forest

A photograph of the fly-tipped waste

Bradley Stoke man ordered to pay over £2,600 following fly-tip and assault in Little Stoke

Last chance for public engagement on final draft of West of England Joint Spatial Plan

Fly-tipped waste

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

Editor - 18th March 2024
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Council calls on Government to fund flood defences to protect Severn...

jw47 - 27th February 2024
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Longwell Green landlord fined for breaching building regulation rules

Editor - 6th October 2016
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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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Have Your Say: Council launches public consultation on 2018/19 budget

Editor - 16th November 2017
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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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Recycling and containers

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

Editor - 8th April 2024
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Warehouse fire update

Simon - 6th December 2017
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Landlords prosecuted for renting unsafe property

Editor - 15th December 2016
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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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Gavel and judge

Filton Rogue Trader arrested after failing to show up in court

Editor - 17th September 2025
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South Gloucestershire Council shortlisted for recycling award

Editor - 1st June 2016
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First South Gloucestershire Tree Week launches

jw47 - 29th November 2019
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Conditional discharge and fines follow discovery of fly tipped waste

Editor - 12th December 2016
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Teachers and children planting new trees

Over 5,000 new trees planted across South Gloucestershire this season

Editor - 21st March 2023
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Gavel and judge

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

Editor - 21st January 2019
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Trees being planted.

Western Forest to become a new national forest

jw47 - 24th March 2025
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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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South Gloucestershire residents encouraged to plant their own tree during Tree...

jw47 - 25th November 2020
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Residents and businesses encouraged to have their say on the future...

jw47 - 5th October 2020
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Gavel and judge

Birmingham man fined for waste offences in South Gloucestershire

jw47 - 2nd February 2022
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More sustainable electric vehicles added to fleet

Editor - 24th November 2016
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Climate and nature graphic

Council signs up to Climate and Nature Bill

Editor - 4th November 2024
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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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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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Councillor Rachael Hunt at Mangotsfield Sort It centre during the slip road’s construction

Mangotsfield recycling centre slip road nears completion

Editor - 6th February 2023
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Red strong wind warning

An update on disruption caused by Storm Darragh

digital - 7th December 2024
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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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Recycling success celebrated in South Gloucestershire

Editor - 26th September 2018
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Yate man fined after discovery of fly tipped hairdressing waste

Editor - 24th November 2016
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Roll out of new bins will help boost recycling rates

Editor - 11th January 2018
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An image of a cigarette end in the road

Gloucester man fined £558 for littering in South Gloucestershire

Editor - 11th January 2023
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Patchway man prosecuted for waste offences

Editor - 30th October 2017
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New homes and primary school for Warmley on old Grange School...

Editor - 22nd October 2021
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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
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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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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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Number of affordable homes built in South Gloucestershire reaches record high

Editor - 8th August 2018
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Page Park clock tower set for restoration

Editor - 1st June 2016
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New ‘School Streets’ in Kingswood and Yate to help clear the...

jw47 - 3rd September 2020
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Voluntary agency joins forces with council to help out in an...

Editor - 17th November 2015
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South Gloucestershire Council commits to phasing out single use plastics

Editor - 1st March 2019
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Page Park turf cut event

Editor - 24th November 2016
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Fly-tipped waste

Chippenham man ordered to pay over £1,700 following South Gloucestershire fly-tip

Editor - 11th January 2024
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Key milestone complete for £57 million Cribbs Patchway metrobus extension

jw47 - 28th May 2021
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a bonfire burning at Rangeworthy Court

Bristol waste collector ordered to pay over £15,000 for setting alight...

Editor - 19th March 2025
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Fly tippers prosecuted

Editor - 22nd August 2017
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Update on the Yate warehouse fire

Editor - 26th October 2017
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Codrington fly-tip

Two more fly-tippers prosecuted in South Gloucestershire

Editor - 6th October 2025
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