A homeowner has been blocked from building a garden fence to protect his young children from a busy road in Patchway. South Gloucestershire Council refused planning permission for the 1.85-metre high boundary fence due to the impact on views and an underground oil pipeline. A council planning officer said the fence would “stand out” from the rest of the housing estate.
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Officers at South Glos Council have given the green light to a controversial planning application for the erection of a large block of flats in gardens behind a row of shops on Coniston Road. The proposed development comprises four separate HMO dwellings providing a total of 22 bedsits. The applicant says the units are foreseen for use as student accommodation.
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A Patchway man has been ordered to pay a total of £2,950 in fines and costs after being prosecuted for waste related offences following the discovery of a fly-tip in nearby Little Stoke. The man went to the Sort It centre in Station Road but it was closed when he got there, so he emptied the waste into a nearby entranceway.
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The need to cater for a massive increase in expected demand for secondary school places in the Bristol North Fringe over the coming years looks set to see the building of a brand new school, the extensive redevelopment of an existing school and an increase in the intake of a third.
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Work on building the first batch of new homes on the former Filton Airfield is set to begin before the end of the year after South Gloucestershire Council approved the first ‘reserved matters’ planning application to come forward for the massive 143ha (354 acre) site. Outline permission for development of the site as a whole was granted in 2015, with
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A local councillor who has represented the Patchway ward on South Gloucestershire Council for many years has stepped down from the role due to ongoing health issues. Eve Orpen, who has been undergoing cancer treatment for over two years, submitted her resignation from the council today (14th November). Cllr Orpen said: “I have found it difficult to fulfil my district
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A number of Patchway transport, youth and community projects stand to benefit from decisions due to be made at a meeting of South Gloucestershire Council’s (SGC’s) Southern Brooks Area Forum this week. The forum has £100k to allocate to local transport capital schemes and two of the twelve schemes to be considered for implementation are in Patchway. These are: Provision
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Work to implement a scheme to ban traffic turning left off the A38 Gloucester Road into Shellmor Avenue and improve the layout of the Shellmor Avenue/Stoke Lane junction got underway this week. The scheme is intended to improve road safety on Shellmor Avenue by reducing the volume of traffic using the road as a “cut through”. The go ahead for
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Officials at South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) have recommended that a proposed scheme to ban traffic from making a left-turn into Shellmor Avenue from the A38 Gloucester Road should be implemented, despite 93 residents signing a petition against it. The recommendation is contained in a report prepared in advance of next Wednesday meeting of SGC’s Planning, Transportation and Strategic Environment Committee,
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The future of Patchway Youth Centre, in Coniston Road, could be decided at a meeting of South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) this evening (Monday 10th). Under proposals published earlier this year, the Council said it was planning to transfer control of all its youth centres to locally-based organisations. If no such organisation comes forward for any particular centre, it will be
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