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Meeting with Metro Mayor Dan Norris

The Metro Mayor, Dan Norris, visited Thornbury Leisure Centre last night, 27 July, to meet with local residents and to listen to their concerns, so that he would be aware of them and take action where possible. Speaking without notes for the entire session, he started...

Residents’ Association anger at Lib Dem Newsletter item

An article, headed “Parish Poll Shambles” in the latest LibDem newsletter, Focus, has elicited an angry response from TTADRA. The summer edition of Focus has started to hit the doormats of Thornbury homes.  The front page includes an article on the Parish Poll, which...
More questions than answers

More questions than answers

The session at Thornbury Library on 29 November was staffed by two officers from South Gloucestershire Council and a Traffic Engineer.  The officers admitted that the timing of the sessions, when working people would not be able to attend, was not ideal and that...
Has the vision for the High Street failed already?

Has the vision for the High Street failed already?

South Gloucestershire Council has exercised both Covid emergency measures and its statutory powers to close Thornbury High Street to through traffic. However, how does its vision of a traffic-free pedestrian zone as part of a thriving town centre economy, and “a space...
U Turn for Buses

U Turn for Buses

South Gloucestershire Council have just announced that buses will once again be allowed to travel in a single direction up Thornbury High Street. No date for the reopening has been given. This partial concession is too late to help the High Street shops &...
Information in the Local Press

Information in the Local Press

Environment, Climate, Carbon and Sustainable Transport Quote from this week’s Thornbury Gazette 4th November 2021 attributed to a SGC Councillor when referring to the Recent Ring Road Proposals; “We also need to keep in focus our climate emergency goals of reducing...