Labour councillor backs Active Travel Grant

21 Sep 2023

There isn’t long left to apply for South Gloucestershire Council’s Active Travel Grant, worth up to £1,000. South Gloucestershire Council is offering the grants to help promote walking and cycling. The scheme is open to all community groups, businesses and town and parish councils within South Gloucestershire. The grants have…

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Labour unveils new wildflower meadow in Cadbury Heath

18 Sep 2023

Heavy horses have lent a hoof at Jubilee Park in Cadbury Heath for a new wildflower meadow to improve biodiversity. Flynn, Kipp and Quin have been harrowing the soil to make a seed bed as part of the project led by South Gloucestershire Council, funded by the West of England…

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Labour proud to submit £3.36m bid to improve Kingswood Park

07 Sep 2023

South Gloucestershire Labour is proud to have submitted a £3.36m funding bid to improve Kingswood Park. The bid’s gone to the National Lottery Heritage Fund, who previously awarded £120,000 in 2021 to help develop proposals. The Labour Group would like to extend a huge thanks to the Friends of Kingswood…

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VCSE Cost-of-Living Support Fund

08 Aug 2023

South Gloucestershire Council, in partnership with the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) Leaders Board, has launched a grant scheme to help organisations struggling to meet the running costs of delivering services to our communities. This scheme has been set up in response to the cost-of-living crisis and the pressure…

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Cost-of-living video message from Labour

31 Jul 2023

Labour’s Alison Evans, Cabinet Member for Cost of Living, has recorded this video message for families now the school summer holidays have started. Visit https://orlo.uk/South_Glos_Cost_of_Living_IQWkM for advice and to check eligibility, or pop into a One Stop Shop.  

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Labour welcomes full resumption of waste services

31 Jul 2023

South Gloucestershire Labour warmly welcomes the resumption of full waste and recycling services, following a new pay offer from Suez to members of the Unite union. The offer prompted Unite members to pause strike action and vote on whether to accept. Normal waste services resumed today on Monday 31st of…

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More buses saved with Labour

26 Jul 2023

South Gloucestershire Labour’s saved two more bus routes for the foreseeable future.   The 84/85, which links places like Cromhall and Hawkesbury Upton to Wotton-under-Edge, will now run until Easter 2024.   And the 622, which runs from Severn Beach to Castle School in Thornbury, will now run until the…

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Labour against ticket office closures

20 Jul 2023

South Gloucestershire Labour was proud to support a motion condemning the widespread closure of railway station ticket offices across the region last night. The potential closures include Bristol Parkway in Stoke Gifford, Filton Abbey Wood, and Yate. Up to 1,000 across the country could go, if the plans go through.…

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Labour reverses Conservative children’s food voucher cut

10 Jul 2023

South Gloucestershire Labour is proud to announce it has reversed a Conservative cut that lowered the amount of food vouchers given to children entitled to free school meals during school holidays.   The vouchers were originally worth £15 a week to children entitled to free school meals. This was lowered…

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Labour saves bus from Emersons Green to Winterbourne Academy

06 Jul 2023

A bus serving children in Lyde Green has been saved through the work of the Labour/Liberal Democrat partnership running South Gloucestershire Council.   The 459 goes from Lyde Green to Winterbourne International Academy. Stagecoach previously announced it would be cutting the service, but the new Administration has managed to find…

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South Glos Labour unveils 2023 election manifesto

04 Mar 2023

South Gloucestershire Labour Group proudly unveiled its 2023 local election manifesto outside Kingswood Civic Centre today. Elected members gathered with candidates, party members, friends, and family. The eight-page document is split into five different policy areas, with several pledges. Amid them are five key pledges which’ll feature on Labour’s doorstep…

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South Glos Council Workers need a Real Living Wage!

15 Feb 2021

The Labour Group at South Glos Council are disappointed that the Council voted against our amendment to this year’s budget which would have seen money allocated to start a Pay Modelling Review to look at how the Council can pay its lowest paid staff the Real Living Wage. Councillor Pat…

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Make Schools Safe for Children and School Staff

04 Jan 2021

South Glos Labour Group Leader Pat Rooney said: “Because of the negative impact on our children’s education, particularly for those who are most deprived, we don’t want to see schools in South Glos closed and we recognise that most schools have remained open for vulnerable and keyworker children throughout the…

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Labour Councillors Abstain on Motion to Rename the Severn Bridge

09 Dec 2020

The Labour Group at South Glos Council has tonight abstained on a motion proposing to rename the Severn Bridge in honour of Her Majesty the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in 2022. Councillor Ian Boulton, Deputy Leader of the Labour Group said: “2022 is going to be a year that I hope…

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South Glos Labour Councillors Congratulate Dan Norris on his Nomination for Labour’s Metro Mayor

16 Nov 2020

Today the Labour Group on South Glos Council congratulate Dan Norris on his nomination as Labour’s candidate for the Metro Mayor elections next May – we look forward to working with him. Thanks too to Cllr. Helen Godwin for fighting an excellent campaign.

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Labour Councillors Dismay as Local Residents are Gagged by Conservative Council

26 Oct 2020

Labour councillors at South Glos Council have reacted with dismay at the Conservative Chair of the Development Management Committee, Cllr Keith Burchell’s, refusal to allow local residents to speak at a Planning Committee about the proposed fencing off of community green space at Shellards Road in Longwell Green. South Glos…

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Labour Councillors Accuse Conservatives of Hypocrisy over Affordable Housing

21 Oct 2020

At the full meeting of South Gloucestershire Council held on 14th October a cross party motion challenging the Government’s proposed planning changes was agreed which included the insertion of a Labour amendment which stated “the proposals in their current state do not do enough to deliver affordable housing to those…

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Labour Councillors welcome overdue rebuild of Patchway Community College

05 Oct 2020

In 2010 the former Conservative Education Secretary, Michael Gove, cancelled the previous Labour Government’s scheduled rebuild of Patchway Community College. Because of the poor state of the buildings, Patchway Community College was included in the Labour Government’s flagship ‘Building Schools for the Future (BSF) Programme’. The Labour Government’s BSF Programme…

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Councillor Pat Rooney signs Letter to PM asking for targeted support to save jobs and businesses

16 Sep 2020

South Glos Labour Group Leader Councillor Pat Rooney is one of over 1000 councillors who have written to the Prime Minister asking for targeted support to protect jobs and businesses. Councillor Rooney said: “The Government’s decision to end the furlough scheme will result in many more redundancies and a massive…

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Sad News about Councillor John Hunt

07 Sep 2020

“We are sad to announce that former South Gloucestershire Labour Councillor, John Hunt, passed away peacefully at home during the night.  John actively worked on behalf of the Labour movement all of his life and practically held virtually every role possible locally, both in the Labour Party, and as a…

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Labour Councillors Thank Covid 19 Volunteers

15 Jul 2020

As part of a debate on a motion to recognise Local Heroes at tonight’s South Glos Council meeting, Katie Cooper, Labour Councillor for Staple Hill and Mangotsfield said: “I would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank the volunteers who have stepped up and supported those shielding in the…

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