As usual, the waste and recycling collections are unchanged on Good Friday and Bank Holiday Monday. The council warns people to plan ahead if visiting one of the Sort It recycling centres as these are often busy at this time of year.

The website for the new Demand Responsive Transport service, WESTlink, which is due to start new week, finally has details of how to book. Do let us know if you experience any teething problems – and do share the phone number with any neighbours who might not be on the internet.

We are delighted that South Gloucestershire Council has today proposed a decision to bring forward the resurfacing schedule for Patch Elm Lane. The lane is currently in a very poor condition with a large number of pot holes and significant edge erosion and we know that affected residents will welcome news of the upcoming repair. […]

Your Focus Team is delighted that, following the petition we started in August calling for the council to resurface Church Road, the council has today proposed a decision to bring forward the resurfacing schedule for Church Road – meaning the Bristol Road end of Church Road will be resurfaced this year. The decision notice has […]

Planning permission has been granted for the new Charfield railway station, something the Lib Dems have campaigned for since the days when Eddie Gadsby was the Charfield ward councillor in the 1980s and 1990s. Now planning permission has been secured work will progress on detailed designs for the station and highways improvements. Once these are […]

People have been asking about a new, larger phone mast being installed at the Woodside Road/Badminton Road junction, in place of the old one. Unfortunately the government changed permitted development rights in April 2022. (Another council has provided a very clear summary here). This explains why there hasn’t been a planning application – this is within […]

South Glos Council has again been defeated in a planning appeal, putting our countryside at risk. Previously a Planning Inspector found that the settlement boundaries are out of date. Now another Inspector has found that the council can no longer demonstrate a 5 year housing land supply. This means developers are more likely to get […]

Our local Ukrainian Community will be putting on a cultural event of Ukrainian musical performances with a talk on Ukrainian history at Yate Heritage Centre on March 18th between 2 and 3pm. This will be part of the Ukraine Unconquered display at the same venue from the 13th to the 23rd of March.

South Glos Council has launched a King’s Coronation grant scheme to support community groups as a contribution to organisations planning commemorative events to celebrate the Coronation of His Majesty the King. The minimum award is £100, and the maximum award will be £1000, depending on demand and budget availability.  The closing date for applications is […]

Cotswold Homes have submitted a planning application to build 14 homes on the field south of Harford Close (aka Harford Place). Agents acting on behalf of the applicants have already written to properties in the immediate vicinity informing them of this. The application has now gone live on South Gloucestershire Council’s planning website – https://beta.southglos.gov.uk/search-planning-applications. […]