Town Councillor Robert Payne has called on the Town Council to investigate the possibility of removing the 20p charge for using public toilets, to make them free at the point of use. Ironically, the collection of this charge is now costing more than the income it generates. The town council took over the running of […]

Local councillors Mike Bell and Robert Payne are continuing to press Network Rail and GWR for improvements to Weston railway station. Disabled access at the station is poor and the Sunnyside Road entrance was closed last year despite opposition from local residents and commuters. We met with GWR recently to address these issues and can […]

Weston Town Council has now opened its new Visitor Information Centre in the former shop unit at the front of the Tropicana building. Not for the first time, the Town Council has had to step in where North Somerset Council (NSC) has withdrawn from a discretionary service.  For many years, NSC operated a very popular […]

A Weston-super-Mare councillor says he is ‘concerned’ about healthcare in the town and has called for services to be ‘urgently strengthened’. It has been widely reported that GP surgeries have been ‘stretched’ in recent years and concerns have been raised, with tens of thousands of people set to move into new homes in the town, […]

A section of Weston-super-Mare will soon be turned into a ‘pocket park’ after being awarded Government funding. The park will be located at The Centre opposite the Town Hall and will see benches, plants and lighting installed. It comes after £15,000 was secured by North Somerset Council and Weston Business Improvement District (BID). Central ward […]

People in the West of England are being urged to take the opportunity to shape the area’s housing and transport provision for the next 20 years by participating in a major consultation. The West of England needs to plan for more homes if it is to meet the area’s growing need for housing and continue […]

Works to resurface and replace kerb channels in Orchard Place will take place during the week beginning Monday 4 January. During that time a road closure will be in place from 8am to 5pm so that the work can be carried out safely.

An innovative conference is being held in Weston-super-Mare next month to help to develop new community-based approaches to improving the health and wellbeing of people living in the centre of Weston-super-Mare. The Weston-super-Mare Central Building Communities Conference will take place at Victoria Methodist Church Hall, Station Road, Weston-super-Mare from 9am to 1pm on Wednesday 25th […]

An ‘urgent’ review of public health spending is being undertaken by North Somerset Council as Government cuts mean it is set to lose out on more than half a million pounds. Staff vacancies have not been filled and some planned projects will be delayed as a result of the authority’s public health funding being cut […]

Stinging cuts worth hundreds of pounds a year will hit more than 10,000 of North Somerset’s poorest families, it has been claimed, even if they are already in work or signed off due to illness. The district is already home to areas which rank in the top three per cent of the most deprived in […]