South Gloucestershire Council has completed a footpath which links Tytherington to Thornbury, thanks to a grant from Natural England. The footpath, which has been well received locally, runs from Tytherington village to Thornbury town centre and provides residents with a safer pedestrian route to their local town. The new 300-metre section of path runs along Tytherington Road next to the
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Community radio station Gloss FM is reaching out to local schools thanks to a grant from South Gloucestershire Council. The popular radio station, previously Thornbury FM, is widening its broadcast area across South Gloucestershire during April and schools across the district will be joining in when Gloss FM starts broadcasting on Monday 19 April. Thanks to a grant of more
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South Gloucestershire’s new youth concessions bus pass – ‘Youth Unltd’ – has been officially launched. South Gloucestershire Council has been working with the Youth Parliament and local schools to promote the new pass giving students discounted bus travel. This is a flagship scheme to give greater freedom to young people in the district and South Gloucestershire Council has invested £1.2million
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The new changing rooms on the Emersons Green side of Pomphrey Hill playing fields were officially opened on Saturday 27 March. The Council has invested £400,000 in the new facility which is the latest stage in a comprehensive programme of new sports facilities for the community at Pomphrey Hill. Housing four changing rooms, a refreshment area, a room for match
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The concerted efforts to fix the potholes on South Gloucestershire’s roads are really paying dividends as the amount of potholes repaired so far this year has already surpassed the figure for the whole of last year. Since this year’s pothole repair campaign started on 25 January, the council’s teams have already repaired over 3,300 potholes, including 1,600 in February alone,
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The first stage of the digital switchover, allowing all viewers in the West TV region to have access to Freeview began this week. The switchover is a two-stage process which began on Wednesday 24 March and will complete on Wednesday 7 April, making Freeview available for all viewers who receive their signal from a relay transmitter. The vast majority of
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Work to widen the roundabout where junction 1 of the M32 meets the A4174 Ring Road has been completed as part of the Greater Bristol Bus Network scheme. The roundabout layout between the A4174 and the M32 has been altered to provide an additional lane for all vehicles in order to reduce congestion and speed up the flow of traffic.
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South Gloucestershire Council has started a £600,000 programme of improvements to the district’s libraries. Extensions to the existing facilities will be taking place at Bradley Stoke, Hanham and Winterbourne libraries and later in the year Kingswood Library will have an upgrade to its interior. Since many of the libraries were built new services have been introduced such as internet access,
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South Gloucestershire Council recently carried out a routine inspection of mobile food businesses in the district. The aim of the initiative was to check that the operators were complying with regulations and offering the best possible service to residents. During the inspection 13 late night food vans were visited. Licensing officers discovered a number of licensing breaches including the late
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A turf cutting ceremony is being held on Friday 12 March (11am until 11.30am) to mark the start of work on the latest South Gloucestershire Council extra care housing scheme. Fiveways, as it is currently known, is located on New Cheltenham Road in Kingswood and will provide 40 one and two bedroom flats to rent. There will be a range
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