Chipping Sodbury Motown show and Yate-Thornbury travel funding land alongside South Glos planning moves

Pupils across South Gloucestershire received their GCSE results on 20 August, the Gazette Series reported [1]. The same week, a Motown tribute act was announced for Chipping Sodbury Town Hall, bringing hits from the 1960s and 1970s to the area [2].

On 19 August, the West of England Mayoral Combined Authority confirmed more than £4 million for safer walking, wheeling and cycling links in Yate and Thornbury, TravelWest reported [9].

The council's planning weekly list includes entries in Chipping Sodbury and Thornbury. In Chipping Sodbury, a change of use is sought for agricultural land to become residential curtilage with a new pedestrian access at Greenacres, Little Sodbury Common [6]. In Thornbury, technical details for two dwellings are being sought on land south of The Lodge on Gloucester Road [10].

Other planning entries include the discharge of conditions for a Multi Use Games Area with sports equipment and connecting access paths at the Jubilee Centre in Bradley Stoke [3], [4]. A detached garage in Bradley Stoke is proposed to become a one-bedroom Air BnB studio [5]. A children's nursery in Patchway is proposed to become seven one-bedroom sheltered housing apartments [7]. An application seeks to add bedrooms to an existing large house in multiple occupation in Stoke Gifford [8].