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Green light for zebra crossing (Kings Chase)

Labour councillors in Kingswood have welcomed the approval of funding for a zebra crossing outside an extra-care housing scheme that they have been campaigning for ever since residents moved in 16 months ago. At last night’s meeting of the Chase Area Forum, councillors voted additional funds of £30,000 to upgrade an uncontrolled crossing on the busy New...
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Young people on song (Staple Hill)

Labour councillors representing the Kingswood and Staple Hill areas tonight voted to provide funds to engage young people in music production at a Staple Hill youth venue. Last autumn South Gloucestershire Council delegated a large amount of its depleted youth services budget to each of its Area Forums so that councillors could target funds...
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Major road set for re-surface (Woodstock)

Councillors are celebrating the announcement that the entire length of a major road running through Kingswood is set to be resurfaced this year. Cock Road within the Woodstock ward of Kingswood extends from Wraxall Road close to the A4174 Ring Road all the way into Hanham where it becomes Mounthill Road, a distance of around 1...
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Labour backs commission into schools

South Gloucestershire’s Labour councillors have supported the creation of an external body to investigate the model of secondary schools needed to improve standards, arguing that this work is urgently needed. At a meeting of the council’s Children and Young People’s Committee yesterday, councillors were told that educational achievement was not good enough across South Gloucestershire, with...
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Welfare Benefit Road Shows

The Tory-led government is making sweeping changes to some benefits and thousands of local people will be affected. South Gloucestershire Council is holding a number of events over the next few weeks for local residents who want any information about the changes. The Road Shows are as follows: Date Place...
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Urgent cash for Tabernacle welcomed

Kingswood’s Labour councillors have welcomed the allocation of £105,000 for urgent works at the prominent and historic but derelict Whitfield Tabernacle in the centre of the town, and are urging its owners to work positively to get the site restored. A recent meeting of South Gloucestershire’s Planning, Transportation and Strategic Environment Committee was presented with a...
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Pat gets the record put straight

A South Gloucestershire Labour councillor has welcomed a retraction from the online Daily Mail after it had misquoted her in an article last month. The national newspaper ran a story, which appears on their website, about South Gloucestershire Council’s current consultation on changing the district’s green bin waste collection. The original article had implied that...
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