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First Patchway youth meeting held

The inaugural meeting of Patchway Town Council’s new youth committee was held earlier this month. The newly formed youth committee met for the first time on Monday 15th November and elected Conservative South Gloucestershire Councillor for Bradley Stoke Central and Stoke Lodge and Patchway Town Councillor, Brian Hopkinson, as Chairman. Councillors in the town aim to improve the way they

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£200 road safety scheme put on hold due to budget freeze (Kingswood)

Road safety schemes costing as little as a few hundred pounds have been put on hold by South Gloucestershire Council (SGC), according to a group of Labour councillors in Kingswood. Officials working for Conservative-led  SGC have had to stop working on small road safety schemes because transport chiefs in charge of the Council have frozen their budget. However, junior officials

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New recycling collections begin next week

With new recycling services launching across South Gloucestershire from next Monday (22nd November), new recruits have been trained and new vehicles have been delivered to help ensure the changes run as smoothly as possible for residents. South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) and its recycling and resource management contractor, SITA UK, have recruited more than 30 new crew members and taken delivery

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Council could lose £500k earmarked for disabled residents

Government cuts announced last month could mean that a local council is set to lose £500,000 that it had earmarked for spending on equipment for disabled residents, say Labour councillors. The fine print revealed by Conservative Chancellor George Osborne’s Comprehensive Spending Review of 20th October, shows that councils will no longer receive any money when council house tenants buy their

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Council tax review nets £360,000 saving

A review of the council tax single person discount has saved £360,000 of taxpayer’s money, says South Gloucestershire Council. The council has over the past year completed a full review of the single person discount and following stringent checking a number of discounts have been cancelled. The council wants to ensure that any council tax relief which is granted, such

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Tories challenge Labour councillors to come up with alternative deficit reduction plan

Conservative councillors on South Gloucestershire Council have challenged their Labour opponents to come up with their own plan to protect local services. The challenge laid down to Labour councillors follows their criticism of Conservative plans to protect frontline services, whilst further reducing local spending on waste, bureaucracy and duplication in line with the Chancellor’s plans to tackle the national debt

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