Category: News

Cost of living support for B&NES residents

Your Parish Council is sharing the following message from Bath & North East Somerset Council which may be of interest to residents.

“For many households the pressure of high living costs has not gone away and the global crisis has brought further stress on family finances. For some residents, particularly those who rely on heating oil rather than mains gas, energy costs are now especially challenging.

The council is supporting people on a low income who are struggling with the rapid rise in heating oil costs. If you need help you can apply for help through our Crisis and Resilience Fund, details are on the council website or by calling our Welfare Support Team on 01225 477277″.

The Parish Council has been informed that a campaign group ‘Save Felton Common’ has recently formed to campaign against Bristol Airport from erecting landing lights on Felton Common. A new Facebook group has been created “Save Felton Common”, to bring together everyone who is concerned with the latest expansion plans of Bristol Airport and specifically their master plan which involves the prospect of putting landing lights on Felton Common. A link to the Facebook group is here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/896511279942413. The potential expansion of Bristol airport is likely to impact the whole of the local area. If you would like more information on the campaign group please email savefeltoncommon@gmail.com

BATH AND NORTH EAST SOMERSET COUNCIL

(THTTC4127 PUBLOW LANE, PUBLOW)
(TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF USE BY VEHICLES) ORDER 2026

Notice is given that Bath and North East Somerset Council in exercise of its powers under
section 14 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 intends to make an order the effect of
which will be to temporarily introduce a road closure in that length of Publow Lane, Publow
from a point outside the property known as Brambledene, 5 Publow Lane. USRN: 47917502.

This order is required because works are being or are proposed to be executed on or near
the road to enable Bristol Water to replace a leaking stop tap from the 24th March 2026
for a maximum period of 6 months. The road will only be restricted as and when traffic
signs are in position and may not be effected for the whole of the period but only for so long
as is necessary to execute the works.

Works are anticipated to be for TWO DAYS.

ALTERNATIVE ROUTE: Publow Lane (remainder) – Parsonage Lane – A37 – High Street
– Publow Lane – Vice Versa.

Link to One.network: https://one.network/?tm=GB148241662

Applicant Details: Emma Osborne
Telephone: Bristol Water – 0345 702 3797
Email: Emma.Osborne@bristolwater.co.uk
Dated: 5th March 2026
Traffic Management Team
Lewis House
Manvers Street,
Bath
BA1 1JG
Chris Major
Director of Place Management

 The map below may be helpful:

Publow with Pensford Parish Council is conducting a housing needs survey to help us identify and understand the current and emerging levels of local housing need within the parish.

All homes within our parish should by now have received a housing needs survey form through their letterbox. All householders are reminded to complete and return the survey to the Parish Council via Pensford Post Office by 31st March. 

The Parish Council will analyse responses and publish our findings in due course.

All Parish residents may submit a form but a valid address within this Parish is required to take part.  Any personal details provided in conjunction with this survey will be used strictly for the purposes of this survey; treated as confidential and used only in compliance with our published Privacy Policy.  

If you have not received a form or if you need additional or replacement forms you can download and print a copy here.

At the Parish Council meeting on 8th February, Dan Brunton from Avon Wildlife Trust Beaver Advice and Support Team gave the councillors a very interesting presentation about the return of beavers to the Chew Valley.

There have been many Beaver sightings along the River Avon and River Chew, although no sightings have yet been reported in our Parish. However, it is very likely that they will be returning to our Parish soon.

In March the Trust will be carrying out a detailed survey of the River Chew. There are many positive impacts of beaver activity, but they can cause problems too, Beavers are a protected species and so landowners are encouraged to contact the Beaver Advice and Support Team if they see signs of Beavers on their land.

Avon Wildlife Trust’s Beaver Advice and Support Team provides free guidance to farmers, landowners and communities who are living alongside wild beavers in the Bristol Avon, Somerset and Frome area.

Please help Avon Wildlife Trust monitor the beaver population along the River Chew and its tributaries. As the plant life dies back over the winter, it becomes easier to spot tell-tale signs of beavers, like gnawed wood and woodchips. If you see any of these signs while out on the river, please fill out the sightings form on their website: www.avonwildlifetrust.org.uk/beavers. There’s also a handy spotter’s guide on there with tips on what to look out for.

If you are a landowner and you need free advice and support with managing the impact of beavers on your land please contact alex.preston@avonwildlifetrust.org.uk.

The Parish Council has received advance notice from Bath & North East Somerset Council of upcoming drainage works on the B3130 Stanton Road, specifically, in the Belluton Narrows area. The work is programmed to begin 7 April and is scheduled for up to 3 weeks.

Bath & North East Somerset Council is closing this road to all through traffic. A signed diversion will be in place, and advance warning signs will be put on the road two weeks prior to work starting. Local residents will receive a letter shortly.

There is a culvert beneath the carriageway which has been surveyed, and it is deemed necessary to replace. The aim of this work is to replace the culvert through the narrow section. The outcome will not immediately resolve the drainage issues through here, but it means that BANES will be able to return to undertake future works under a less disruptive form of traffic management.

Belluton, Bath and North East Somerset, England, United Kingdom

Local people will always need housing if our community is to develop and thrive.

Publow with Pensford Parish Council is committed to understand housing needs within our parish. We believe that having a good knowledge of local housing needs is vital to help us understand the necessity for future developments. We last conducted a housing needs survey in 2011, since when there have been many changes in our community. We are now conducting a new housing needs survey to help us identify and understand the current and emerging levels of local housing need within the parish.

The survey is designed to collect information about the profile of our community, its current housing supply and types of people resident here, people wishing to move home in the near future and the nature of their housing needs.

Our Parish councillors have delivered a housing needs survey form to all households within the parish. Householders are being asked to complete and return the survey. Please return your completed form to the Parish Council via Pensford Post Office by 31st March. The Parish Council will analyse responses and publish our findings in due course.

All Parish residents may submit a form but a valid address within this Parish is required to take part.

Any personal details provided in conjunction with this survey will be used strictly for the purposes of this survey; treated as confidential and used only in compliance with our published Privacy Policy. 

If you do not receive a form or if you need additional or replacement forms you can download and print a copy here

Sue Grimes
Chair
Publow with Pensford Parish Council

On 20th November; Bath and North East Somerset Council issued the following Traffic Regulation Order reducing the speed limit to 20MPH on a section of Charlton Road, Keynsham, Woollard Lane, Whitchurch/Publow and Redlynch Lane, Chewton Keynsham.  The restriction will come into operation on 9th March 2026.