Public Consultations

The Council is proposing to make an area-wide Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO). The PSPO is being proposed due to growing concerns regarding "car cruising" activity throughout the South Gloucestershire Council area.

Car cruises often result in reports of anti-social behaviour from residents and local businesses who are affected as well as impacting on other road users. In addition, these often spontaneous events place a significant demand on Policing resources, local private security staff and in some cases Council resources.

Some of the anti-social behaviours attached to car cruising include the following:

• Causing a danger or risk of injury to other road users, including pedestrians, by speeding or racing,
• Causing damage or risk of damage to property,
• Speeding or racing on the public highway,
• Performing stunts, including but not limited to, doughnuts, manoeuvre drifting, skidding, handbreak turns, or wheel spinning,
• Sounding horns or the playing of loud music so as to cause a nuisance,
• Revving of engines so as to cause a nuisance,
• Causing obstruction on a public highway or publicly accessible land.

We would like to hear your views on the proposals outlined in the documents listed on our consultation page.

Car cruise activity Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) (southglos.gov.uk)

The consultation is open until the 1st January 2024.

We are proposing some changes to our recycling and waste collection services. The purpose of these changes is to:

• Make it easier for people to recycle more,
• Reduce the carbon footprint of waste in South Gloucestershire, and
• Reduce our costs, so that our funding covers the cost of delivering the service.

Over the next three years, we want to roll out a weekly collection of flexible plastics for recycling to all households with a kerbside collection and introduce further measures which make it easier for you to recycle more of what you currently throw away. Once you're recycling more and creating more space in your black bin, we then want to consider how often black bins for non-recyclable waste are collected, looking at options for a three or four weekly collection.

Please read about the proposals before completing the questionnaire.

Every household in South Gloucestershire has their rubbish and recycling collected by South Gloucestershire Council. And all of us will be impacted if we do not act swiftly to minimise environmental damage. Whatever your thoughts, we want to hear from you.

Waste less, recycle more (southglos.gov.uk)

The consultation is open until the 7th January 2024.

The Avon and Somerset Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) is responsible for setting the amount of money you contribute to local policing through your council tax bill (known as the ‘precept’).

The Better Care Stronger Communities fund is the mechanism by which South Gloucestershire Council has funded work delivered by the voluntary sector partners that focuses on adult social care, prevention, promoting equalities and improving outcomes for individuals.

The precept accounts for 41% of police funding and the rest is from central Government. The Government set the maximum amount by which PCCs can increase the precept each year.

The Government has not yet confirmed the maximum amount PCCs can increase the precept for next year, however it will be at least £10 for a band D household (3.8% of your council tax bill). The Government assume that PCCs will ask for the maximum allowed and use this assumption in their budget setting.

Our current financial planning assumes the precept will be increased by £10 next year. Even with this assumed increase savings still need to be made. The size of the savings needed will likely result in about 250 staff roles being cut across the next few years. These cuts will have an impact on front line services such as visible policing and the ability to investigate crime.

The PCC wants to hear your thoughts on increasing the amount of money which goes towards policing through your council tax.

The survey and information about the precept can be found here: www.avonandsomerset-pcc.gov.uk

The survey closes on 22 January 2024.

The Better Care Stronger Communities fund is the mechanism by which South Gloucestershire Council has funded work delivered by the voluntary sector partners that focuses on adult social care, prevention, promoting equalities and improving outcomes for individuals.

We have reviewed the funding that contributes to the VCSE and the projects it supports and have removed the statutory (eg visual impairment, advocacy services) and essential provision (Carers support provision) from this group of funding.

We have also reviewed the application process and as a result developed a draft application form that we are looking for feedback on, and we will be adapting our monitoring and evaluation process.

VCSE Grants 2024 - South Gloucestershire Online Consultations (southglos.gov.uk)

The consultation is open until the 23rd January 2024.