Yate Community Plan

How should Yate celebrate the Jubilee?

How should we celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee next year in Yate?

The Yate Community Plan team are keen to hear your ideas.

Perhaps you'd like parks, gardens or special planting schemes...

Please email your thoughts to , and we'll display them on this page for others to share.

We Love Yate Survey

The Yate Community Plan aims to help us all enjoy Yate even more than we do now, and spend more time shoping, relaxing and having fun here.

We've already seen the new Library and Health Centre, and there are plans for more shops and entertainment venues...

See the "We Love Yate" survey responses to see what others love about life in Yate already, and what they'd like to see more of.

The Yate Community Plan Implementation team are using the responses to make Yate an even better place for us all to live.

Click here to download a copy of the Yate Community Plan [PDF, 4.25MB]

The Yate Community Plan was produced in 2008.

Hundreds of residents of Yate were involved in contributing their ideas to the plan, a visionary document reflecting the local aspirations for the future of the town.

With the help of a grant from Yate Town Council a resident led community group got it off the ground and it was launched to the press and public in September 2008.

The question is: "What’s happened since?"

Yate’s Community Plan is moving forward

Following the launch over 30 volunteers signed up to the new Yate Community Plan Implementation Group.

The group has met quarterly to prioritise and progress 12 key actions from the plan.

Each of these themed actions is now being progressed by an existing or new Yate Town Council, South Gloucestershire Council or Community Group.

Some examples of progress are listed below:

• Yate in Bloom celebrated a successful first entry, winning a Silver award, three neighbourhood awards, a discretionary award and a cup.
• Yate Town Council are pursuing two options for providing a venue for concerts and events.
• The Sodbury and Yate Business Association is progressing well, attracting new members and holding well-attended social events, as well as prize draw to encourage local shopping.
• A draft location map of Green Areas in Yate has been produced and agreed.
• The Friends of Yate Station Group is lobbying for more train carriages, information points and bike stands. The Severnside Community Rail Partnership will be improving and planting up a border at Yate Station to greet new arrivals.
• The Armadillo Youth Cafe has opened.
• The Youth Gym scheme at Yate Leisure Centre is popular, well-supported and used by local schools during PE sessions. Gym membership in general has grown since the successful Leisure Centre refurbishment.
• The "We Love Yate" survey has been well received, and a variety of comments submitted.
• The electronic noticeboards in the Library and Leisure Centre have been very popular, and it is hoped to install more plasma screens in the Shopping Centre and the new Tesco store.

Get in touch

To find out more about any of the above or get involved with one of these groups please call Yate Town Council on 01454 866506 or email .

The photos on this page are reproduced by kind permission of Dave Bruten.