• Town council for Emersons Green and parish council for Stoke Lodge and The Common proposed

  By ptics at 11:43 on 22/05/13

  

  Two new parish councils could be created in South Gloucestershire following the council's Annual General Meeting (AGM) tonight (22 May). Councillors will be invited to approve recommendations to create a town council for Emersons Green and a parish council for Stoke Lodge and The Common. The recommendations follow the council's recent review of its community governance arrangements, which considered options to create, merge or alter...

• Streetlight switch-off "comments period"

  By sglabour at 10:15 on 08/04/13

  

  Councillor Pat Rooney writes:   In June South Gloucestershire Council is planning to switch the street lights off in Kingswood between midnight and 5am to save money.  This is part of an ongoing programme that has already seen approximately one-fifth of the district's street lights converted to part-night operation.  The council has opened a "comments period" that will run until the 13th May, so it is...

• Councillors clean up Kingswood town centre

  By ptics at 07:56 on 21/03/13

  

  By Labour South Gloucestershire.... Councillors representing central Kingswood were out on the streets on Saturday cleaning up the town centre as part of an annual Big Spring Clean campaign.  In two hours they managed to fill 10 bags of rubbish as well as a collect an abandoned tyre. Local Labour councillors Gareth Manson, Andy Perkins and Pat Rooney from Woodstock ward and Pat Apps and Bill Bowrey from neighbouring Kings Chase...

• £8,000 in small grants awarded to community groups in Staple Hill

  By ptics at 09:33 on 12/03/13

  

  More than £8,000 in small grants has been given to several local community groups based in Staple Hill. The sum was part of a total of nearly £30,000 awarded by the Chase Area Forum last week to groups across the Kingswood, Staple Hill, Mangotsfield and Downend areas. Staple Hill groups that are benefiting include: •    £1,625 for the Our Place Community Flat – this will support and...

• Competition: Perform at Kingswood Family Fun Day

  By ptics at 10:58 on 07/03/13

  

  Are you the next Kings Of Leon, Sister Sledge, Jackson 5 or Bee Gees? The council is holding a competition to find a 'family' band to play at the Family Fun Day in Kingswood Park on Wednesday 29 May. If you are in a band, group or a choir with family members – don't worry, you don't all have to be related – and you live in South Gloucestershire or have a family connection to the area then the council wants to hear from...

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