More and more South Gloucestershire residents say they love where they live. That is the finding of a new report published by South Gloucestershire Council. The annual ‘Quality of life: better or worse?’ report for the district reveals that satisfaction with the local area as a place to live has increased over the last four years, with 85 per cent
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A kerbside plastic bottle and food waste collection service is to be rolled out to every South Gloucestershire household in the biggest expansion of recycling services in 10 years. South Gloucestershire Council’s (SGC’s) Conservative administration has unveiled an ‘in principle’ agreement with its waste contractor SITA to overhaul the 25 year contract that had been agreed in 2000 by the
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Voting in the three parliamentary constituencies in South Gloucestershire has seen two Conservative and one Liberal Democrat candidates selected to represent the area in the House of Commons. The biggest surprise came in Kingswood where the sitting MP Roger Berry (Labour) was ousted by Chris Skidmore (Conservative) thanks to a 9.4% swing from Labour to Conservative. Incumbent Steve Webb (Liberal
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To coincide with Noise Action Week, South Gloucestershire Council is encouraging the district’s licensed premises to be good neighbours and have a successful and noise free football World Cup. During Noise Action Week, which runs from 26 to 30 April, council officers will be visiting licensed premises to offer information and advice about how to avoid noise problems during World
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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 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 Appointments Commission has approved the appointment of Melanie Gibbs as the new chair of NHS South Gloucestershire. Melanie Gibbs has been acting Chair of NHS South Gloucestershire since December 2009, after the death of Sir Chris Clarke who had chaired the primary care trust from September 2006. Mrs Gibbs has been a non executive on NHS South Gloucestershire’s Trust
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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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