News - January 2020

Gloucestershire residents can and should reduce, reuse and recycle more after a study of ‘black bag’ waste showed recyclable materials like paper, clothes and food waste are ending up in landfill or the Gloucestershire energy from waste facility – Javelin Park.

A Gloucester man has been sentenced for selling counterfeit cigarettes and tobacco worth more than £13,000.

Gloucestershire County Council highways officers need to close a busy B-road over Cleeve Hill during February to fix a collapsed drain.

Cabinet Members highlighted the importance of addressing climate change across all the council's work, at its meeting today, agreeing to set aside £1million to cut carbon emissions. Cabinet also agreed a boost of an additional £500k to the money available to individual councillors to spend on roads and footpaths in their areas.

Gloucestershire has been allocated £1million from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to help people sleeping rough to move away from a life on the streets for good.

Thousands of students from Gloucestershire will attend a hard-hitting roadshow, which aims to reduce the number of traffic collisions involving young people in the county.

A memorial service to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau has been held by Gloucestershire County Council.

At its meeting on 29 January, Gloucestershire County Council’s cabinet is set to agree investment of £12.9million into children’s services and an initial £1million Action Fund to help tackle climate change, as part of a £31million overall increase to the council’s 2020/21 budget.

The Gloucestershire Energy from Waste Facility has now become fully operational, accepting up to 190,000 tonnes of residual waste each year from Gloucestershire’s homes and Household  Recycling Centres (HRCs) and producing over 116,000 megawatts hour of electricity per annum which is exported to the National Grid.

Photo credited to Andrew Dixon Photography

The B4008 Gloucester Road and Bath Road is being resurfaced as part of the county council’s £150 million investment into Gloucestershire’s roads.

People in Matson are being invited to give their views on what improvements they would like to see at their local library.

Leader of the council, Mark Hawthorne has appointed Carole Allaway-Martin to the position of Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care Commissioning. Carole will officially take up her new role on 15 January 2020.