B&NES Council is currently considering controversial plans to reduce the opening hours of the well-used tip at Old Welton, Wheeler’s Hill. As part of its budget planning for 2026-2027 the council is reviewing capacity and usage at its household waste recycling centres. The council is looking at a rotating closure of the Midsomer Norton site….
The Bath and North East Somerset Councillors for Peasedown St John, Karen Walker and Gavin Heathcote (Independents), will be holding their next Advice Surgery on Saturday 7th February, at Peasedown St John Community Library, located in The Hive Community Centre. It will be an opportunity for residents to discuss issues and any concerns they have…
Community Leaders in Peasedown St John have heavily criticised the leadership at Bath & North East Somerset Council after it was announced that the plans to build a roundabout at the southern end of the village have been shelved! B&NES has pulled the plug on plans to create a much-needed roundabout at the junction between…
A political movement launched last year has outlined its campaign priorities for the year ahead, with renewed calls for local people to be at the centre of B&NES council’s decision-making processes. Launched in 2025, Independents for B&NES is a political cause that not only wants to put local people first, but wants to provide a…
A Bath and North East Somerset based organisation has renewed its call on the government to make Holocaust Denial a crime in the UK. This is in response to the heightened increase in antisemitic hate crimes and violence against Jews, both here in the UK and around the world. Denial of the Holocaust is currently…
Councillors from the group Independents for B&NES are calling on Bath & North East Somerset Council to do more to support and financially aid the Local Authority’s 11 community libraries. The 11 community spaces, all located around the district, provide vital lifelines to many people who live in rural and isolated communities. They do so without any…
Councillors from the Independents for B&NES movement have raised concerns about B&NES Council’s plans for the electrification of its fleet of refuse trucks. The council’s leadership is currently considering proposals to spend £2.6million on replacing several of their RCV’s (Refuse Collection Vehicles) at a time when staff working out ‘on the front line’ are receiving a pay…
The Bath and North East Somerset Councillors for Peasedown St John, Gavin Heathcote and Karen Walker (Independents), will be holding their next Advice Surgery on Saturday 4th October, at Peasedown St John Community Library, located in The Hive Community Centre. It will be an opportunity for residents to discuss issues and any concerns they have about the community….
A community activist who has spent years campaigning to clean up his local area is to stand as an Independent candidate in the upcoming Widcombe & Lyncombe by-election. Voters will go to polls on Thursday 9th October in what will be the third by-election in Bath & North East Somerset this year. Casey Nolan has…
Progress on building a new endoscopy unit in Swindon has taken an enormous leap forward in the last few weeks, after giant cranes hoisted the state-of-the-art structure into place. The new unit, which will sit alongside the town’s community diagnostic centre in West Swindon, is due to open later in the year and, once fully…
