Waste and recycling collections in South Gloucestershire are being impacted by strike action being taken by employees of Suez, the council’s waste contractor. The strike began today, Monday 12th June, and is set to run until Sunday 18th June, with a second phase spanning two weeks planned from Monday 26th June until Sunday 9th July.
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The Lib Dems and Labour have finally agreed to form a coalition to run South Gloucestershire Council. The alliance will replace the Conservatives who were in power since 2015 but lost their overall majority at the polls on Thursday 4th May, although they remain the largest single group with 23 councillors compared with 20 Liberal Democrats and 17 Labour members.
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Crackdowns are being launched to tackle littering and landlords who fail to bring rented homes up to energy standards, after South Gloucestershire Council approved its budget for 2023/24. As expected, council tax will rise by 4.99 percent from April 2023, taking the authority’s portion of bills for middle Band D households up by £87.47 to £1,752.11.
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South Gloucestershire Council’s ruling Conservatives have been accused of “pretending they can solve” a £29.3 million budget shortfall “caused” by their own party’s government. The authority’s Cabinet agreed a raft of proposed cuts on Monday 5th December 2022, despite many of them lacking details. However they include garden waste collection subscriptions increasing from £30 to £55 a year…
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Green waste collections will nearly double in price, street lights will be dimmed and staffed library hours reduced under South Glos Council plans to plug a £29.3 million shortfall. The authority has revealed dozens of proposed measures, including cuts to frontline services and redundancies, to balance its 2023/24 budget.
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Black bin collections in South Gloucestershire could be cut to once every three or four weeks from 2025. The move could cut costs and carbon emissions while encouraging residents to recycle more and throw away less rubbish into general waste. The potential change is being considered as new figures reveal the district is now recycling 60 percent of its overall waste.
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A former leader of South Gloucestershire Council, Alderman John Calway, has sadly died following a battle with cancer. Alderman Calway played a huge role in local government and was a local councillor, representing Longwell Green, from 1980 until 2014. He served as leader of the council between 2007 and 2014
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South Gloucestershire Council says it is committed to playing its part in supporting those who will be resettled from Afghanistan by the government. “I know that we will all open our arms and our hearts to those who have helped us and who now need our support,” says Cllr Franklin Owusu-Antwi, Cabinet member for public health and equality of opportunity
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South Gloucestershire Council has announced that three of its four Sort It recycling centres will reopen on Saturday 16th May after being temporarily closed due to the coronavirus emergency.
Sort It recycling centres at Mangotsfield, Thornbury and Yate will open with some restrictions around the type of waste that can be disposed of, and essential social distancing measures in place to keep people safe.
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Weekly recycling collections are to resume across South Gloucestershire from Wednesday 13th May after being temporarily changed to keep essential collections running during the Covid-19 (coronavirus) emergency.
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