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Number of affordable homes built in South Gloucestershire reaches record high

Editor - 8th August 2018
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

Envirocrime team win national award

Councillor Erica Williams, cabinet member responsible for schools at South Gloucestershire Council, with children at Barley Close Community Primary School

South Gloucestershire schools receive top grades for encouraging sustainable travel

Holiday activities in South Gloucestershire libraries

Waste operatives loading recycling on to a truck

South Gloucestershire’s impressive recycling rate continues to rise

Editor - 28th March 2023
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Common Connections project gets green light

Editor - 10th February 2022
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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
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Work to start at railway bridge to support cyclist and pedestrian...

jw47 - 20th August 2021
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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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Retirement home developer ordered to pay almost £7,000 for breaching planning...

Editor - 2nd May 2018
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South Gloucestershire Council to engage with local communities as it starts...

Editor - 18th September 2017
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Wick man prosecuted for waste offences

Editor - 11th October 2018
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Residents encouraged to help shape plans for Jubilee Park as potential...

jw47 - 1st June 2022
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Have your say on changes to Thornbury High Street

jw47 - 21st July 2020
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A fenced off path with no entry signs

Thornbury man ordered to pay over £8,000 for obstructing public right...

Editor - 19th March 2024
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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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South Gloucestershire’s Discover Festival

Editor - 6th October 2016
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Masterplan consultation launches to help develop a ‘Distinctly Kingswood’ future town...

jw47 - 19th July 2021
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Number of affordable homes built in South Gloucestershire reaches record high

Editor - 8th August 2018
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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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Siston man prosecuted following fly-tip in Henfield, South Gloucestershire

jw47 - 8th July 2021
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Council publishes updated list of sites to be assessed for potential...

Editor - 15th November 2018
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South Gloucestershire Council Cabinet agrees 2018/19 Budget

Editor - 5th February 2018
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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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SGN special edition June 2019

Special edition of South Gloucestershire News

Simon - 20th June 2019
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Cabinet agrees way forward on climate change and updating the Local...

Editor - 28th April 2020
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Council Leader Councillor Toby Savage next to solar panels

Positive progress shown in South Gloucestershire Council’s work to help tackle...

Editor - 9th December 2022
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Bristol landlord fined thousands for failing to make repairs to Kingswood...

jw47 - 8th September 2020
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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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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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ypical British terraced houses

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

Editor - 8th February 2022
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Unlicensed HMO landlord fined over £7,000

Editor - 7th October 2021
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South Gloucestershire’s first ‘School Street’ to launch in Frampton Cotterell

jw47 - 22nd June 2020
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Have your say at Community Engagement Forums

Editor - 6th October 2016
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Downend man prosecuted for failing to comply with Community Protection Notice

Editor - 29th March 2018
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Gavel and judge

Frenchay man fined following South Gloucestershire fly-tip

Editor - 16th October 2025
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Changes to the Sort It centres

Simon - 2nd September 2015
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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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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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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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Frampton Cotterell man prosecuted for waste offences

Editor - 18th September 2017
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Christmas and New Year waste collections

Editor - 12th December 2018
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Caerphilly man prosecuted for waste offences in South Gloucestershire

Editor - 13th December 2018
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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
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Fly-tipped bin bags

Downend woman fined for fly-tipping bin bags

Editor - 17th October 2025
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Trio of fly tippers prosecuted

Editor - 8th March 2017
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Record number of new homes will help provide ownership and affordable...

jw47 - 12th October 2021
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Dumped bags of rubbish

South Gloucestershire Council secures two more fly-tip convictions

Editor - 28th November 2024
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Little Stoke Sort It recycling centre to reopen

jw47 - 2nd July 2020
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Cllr Reade with EV at The Venue Cribbs

New EV charge points now available at Cribbs Causeway for South...

jw47 - 25th March 2022
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West of England Councils sign 10-year contracts to manage residual waste...

jw47 - 26th July 2019
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Change in governance arrangements introduced

Editor - 18th May 2017
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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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Red strong wind warning

An update on disruption caused by Storm Darragh

digital - 7th December 2024
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