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January 2024, Edition — Issue 83
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Cricket club eyes up local sites Gloucestershire County Cricket Club wants to move from the County Ground and is looking at sites near Emersons Green. PAGE 5
Helping children with cancer Becky Evans and Pat Evans of Raeyah's Hands of Support with Knit and Natter members Karen Jukes, Pat Stinchcombe, Tanya Phillips, Tina Jefferies and Suzzie Belcher, who have made a Snowman-themed post box topper outside Downend Post Office to raise money for the charity. Full story: Page 7
Green spaces under threat PEOPLE are being urged to have their say over where thousands of new homes in South Gloucestershire should be built in the next 15 years. The ‘preferred’ version of the council’s Local Plan, a blueprint for future development, proposes allowing almost 1,500 new homes to be built on fields around Shortwood - a village that currently
has only about 90 houses - by 2040. A thousand more would be built near Lyde Green and in Mangotsfield. The council is holding a series of meetings this month, to explain why it believes it has to build on greenfield sites and to listen to residents’ ideas. Turn to Page 4
New bridge vow The A432 bridge over the M4, shut since last July, needs demolishing. A replacement is promised by the end of 2025. PAGE 3
Start on schools Building work on Lyde Green’s much-delayed new schools will begin in March, with the target opening date September 2026. PAGE 8
Cat’s adventure A cat found wandering near the M4 had been missing from home in Taunton for 10 years PAGE 17