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New planning process will open up and improve application times and decisions

Editor - 1st November 2018

Black bin-liners full of waste dumped on a pavement

Filton students handed 12 months conditional discharge and ordered to pay £332 for fly-tipping waste

Get involved in the Great Big Green Week in South Gloucestershire

How Bristol Parkway might look in the future.

Bristol Parkway to become station for the 21st century

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 tree protected by preservation order

An aerial image of the green South Gloucestershire countryside

Have your say on South Gloucestershire’s Climate Change Strategy

Editor - 19th December 2017

Waste operatives loading recycling on to a truck

South Gloucestershire’s impressive recycling rate continues to rise

Editor - 28th March 2023

Teachers and children planting new trees

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

Editor - 21st March 2023

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

Fly tippers prosecuted

Editor - 22nd August 2017

Have your say on a new Local Plan for South Gloucestershire

Editor - 12th January 2017

Residents congratulated for recycling an extra 1,279 tonnes of waste with...

Editor - 12th December 2017

New planning support to help residents build annexes and outbuildings

jw47 - 7th October 2021

Fly-tipped fridges

Soundwell man ordered to pay over £1,400 following roadside fly-tip

Editor - 12th November 2024

Have your say on South Gloucestershire’s new strategy for ‘Greener Places’

jw47 - 22nd June 2021

Inefficient homes in South Gloucestershire and Gloucestershire set to benefit from...

Editor - 17th December 2021

Chris Jelf, Deputy Head at Little Stoke Primary School with pupils from the school celebrating Modeshift STARS 'outstanding' accreditation.

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

jw47 - 15th May 2024

COVID-19 enforcement action

Editor - 30th April 2020

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

Single use cups and plastic cutlery to be removed from council...

Editor - 4th July 2018

ypical British terraced houses

Consultation on proposed controls on HMO conversions in Filton and Stoke...

Editor - 8th February 2022

Councillor Louise Harris, Emily Harrison from the School Leadership Team, Active Travel Champion Beverley Furber and school children at The Ridge Juniors in Yate

South Gloucestershire schools handed top sustainable travel awards

Editor - 27th September 2023

Little Stoke fly tipper prosecuted

Editor - 21st June 2018

A photograph of grass and wildflowers on the roadside

South Gloucestershire Council partnered project set to receive £4.7 million Live...

Editor - 26th January 2023

An image of the Sevrnside coast looking out to the Severn Bridge

Vision for coastal communities in Severnside unveiled

Editor - 16th November 2022

Planning changes proposed to encourage greater engagement

Editor - 10th July 2018

Green Infrastructure Strategy and Action Plan sets out practical steps to...

jw47 - 9th November 2021

Waste dumped next to a tree near a path

Yate woman prosecuted following Chipping Sodbury fly-tip

Editor - 23rd May 2023

Gavel and judge

Frenchay man fined following South Gloucestershire fly-tip

Editor - 16th October 2025

Launch of Call For Sites process as part of developing the...

Editor - 8th July 2020

Council challenges planning decisions

Editor - 12th June 2018

Roll out of new bins will help boost recycling rates

Editor - 11th January 2018

A photograph of buildings, roads and pathways in Charlton Hayes

30-year vision for South Gloucestershire neighbourhoods unveiled

Editor - 10th October 2022

A photograph of the waste pile before and after it had been set alight

Yate men handed suspended sentences, fines and behaviour orders for waste...

Editor - 2nd November 2023

Rogue traders fined and banned from cold calling anywhere in UK

jw47 - 12th September 2019

An empty kitchen after Brown ripped out the units

Company director jailed for multiple thefts from customers

Editor - 30th June 2025

a fly-tipped sofa on the roadside

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

Editor - 13th January 2025

Green ecological house in empty field

Energy efficient Malmains Drive development progresses

Editor - 31st March 2022

Planters in Staple Hill, South Gloucestershire

Grants awarded to support sustainable planting projects across South Gloucestershire

jw47 - 13th March 2024

Gavel and judge

Rogue roofer jailed after repeated fraud against a total of 19...

Editor - 21st November 2024

Bristol man prosecuted for waste offences in South Gloucestershire

Editor - 1st February 2018

West of England Joint Spatial Plan Submitted to Government for Review

Editor - 13th April 2018

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

Number of tree varieties in Page Park more than doubles with...

Editor - 24th March 2017

Flood defence project progress impresses West of England Leaders

jw47 - 5th July 2021

Wick man prosecuted for waste offence

Editor - 24th July 2018

Plan for Yate investment unveiled

Editor - 13th December 2021

More sustainable electric vehicles added to fleet

Editor - 24th November 2016

Residents encouraged to help shape plans for Jubilee Park as potential...

jw47 - 1st June 2022

Have your say at Community Engagement Forums

Editor - 6th October 2016

The empty home at Marshfield

House owners prosecuted over empty and unmaintained property

Editor - 9th July 2025

Have your say on changes to Thornbury High Street

jw47 - 21st July 2020

Staple Hill’s Page Park receives National Lottery investment

Editor - 1st June 2016

Page Park clock tower set for restoration

Editor - 1st June 2016

Commercial vehicles carrying poorly secured loads stopped to help tackle roadside...

Editor - 24th May 2022

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