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

Editor - 4th January 2018
A black and white image of the former Frog Lane Colliery

South Gloucestershire Council explores using local mines as a source of renewable heat

Fly-tipped bin bags

Downend woman fined for fly-tipping bin bags

South Gloucestershire Council shortlisted for recycling award

Green light for next stage of Avonmouth Severnside Enterprise Area flood defence project which will protect 2,500 homes and businesses

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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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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Cllr Ian Boulton and Cllr Claire Young stood near a recycling truck

South Gloucestershire Council welcomes willingness of Suez and Union to return...

jw47 - 11th July 2023
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Recycling success celebrated in South Gloucestershire

Editor - 26th September 2018
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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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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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Bristol fly-tipper prosecuted for dumping waste in South Gloucestershire

Editor - 15th January 2021
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A photograph of buildings, roads and pathways in Charlton Hayes

30-year vision for South Gloucestershire neighbourhoods unveiled

Editor - 10th October 2022
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South Gloucestershire Council shortlisted for recycling award

Editor - 1st June 2016
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Trees being planted.

Western Forest to become a new national forest

jw47 - 24th March 2025
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Masterplan consultation launches to help develop a ‘Distinctly Kingswood’ future town...

jw47 - 19th July 2021
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Improvement work for recycling facility at Mangotsfield

Editor - 16th January 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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solar panels

Solar farms on the way

Simon - 2nd September 2015
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A photograph of the fly-tipped waste

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

Editor - 6th December 2023
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Gavel and judge

Birmingham man fined for waste offences in South Gloucestershire

jw47 - 2nd February 2022
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Litter alongside the A4174 ring road

Kingswood man ordered to pay over £500 for driving with unsecured...

Editor - 15th August 2024
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Fly-tipped waste at Serridge Lane

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

Editor - 14th May 2025
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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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Have your say on the Resource and Waste Strategy: 2020 and...

jw47 - 15th August 2019
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Council challenges Charfield planning decision

Editor - 4th September 2018
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Have your say on South Gloucestershire’s new strategy for ‘Greener Places’

jw47 - 22nd June 2021
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The Avonmouth Severnside Enterprise Area (ASEA) Ecology Mitigation and Flood Defence Project has been shortlisted for a prestigious civil engineering award.

ASEA Ecology Mitigation and Flood Defence Project shortlisted for a prestigious...

jw47 - 8th July 2024
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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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A water vole

Water voles settle into new home at one of UK’s newest...

Editor - 20th June 2023
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Fly-tipping duo prosecuted for dumping waste in South Gloucestershire

jw47 - 15th February 2022
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New cycle lanes for Yate commuter route to improve safety and...

jw47 - 17th August 2020
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New land supply analysis strengthens council’s hand to resist speculative development

Editor - 18th December 2018
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Residents congratulated for recycling an extra 1,279 tonnes of waste with...

Editor - 12th December 2017
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A plan for Yate to flourish and prosper – consultation on...

jw47 - 21st June 2021
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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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Warm and Well is offering grants to make homes that aren't connected to the mains gas network, more energy efficient.

Six million funding offers energy-saving home improvements for off-gas properties across...

jw47 - 26th July 2023
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South Gloucestershire’s Discover Festival

Editor - 6th October 2016
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Consultation launched on the West of England Joint Spatial Plan and...

Editor - 8th November 2016
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Two South Gloucestershire residents prosecuted for waste offences

Editor - 9th January 2019
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Have your say about how South Gloucestershire grows for our future...

jw47 - 27th November 2020
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Cllr Ian Boulton and Cllr Maggie Tyrrell

South Gloucestershire Council calls on the Government to enforce planning requirements...

jw47 - 17th October 2024
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Caerphilly man prosecuted for waste offences in South Gloucestershire

Editor - 13th December 2018
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Update on the Yate warehouse fire

Editor - 26th October 2017
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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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Fly-tipped waste

Yate man sent to prison following multiple waste offences and CBO...

Editor - 9th July 2025
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High Street changes to support traders and environment developed to help...

jw47 - 28th May 2021
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Wick man prosecuted for waste offence

Editor - 24th July 2018
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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

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

Editor - 21st November 2024
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A house under construction

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

jw47 - 4th March 2021
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Unlicensed HMO landlord fined over £7,000

Editor - 7th October 2021
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Flood defence project progress impresses West of England Leaders

jw47 - 5th July 2021
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Land owner ordered to pay over £6,000 for waste offences

Editor - 23rd January 2019
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