Yate Community Plan

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, the Health Centre is nearing completion, and there are plans for more shops and entertainment venues...

To make sure Yate ticks all your boxes, use the "We Love Yate" survey to tell us what you love about life in Yate already, and what you'd like to see more of.

The Yate Community Plan Implementation team will use your 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 reported at the June 2009 meeting are listed below:

• Local businesses are forming a joint Yate/Chipping Sodbury Business group, with the support of South Gloucestershire Council (SGC).
• Yate Town Council is actively seeking land for use as allotments, and inviting suggestions for areas of land that could potentially be used as allotments.
• Work on a Location Map of Green Areas in Yate is ongoing.
• Accessible routes for disabled people are being audited around Yate Town Centre and local conservation areas by AccessAbility.
• South Gloucestershire Council are working on connecting up the Frome Valley walkway in Yate with Chipping Sodbury.
• The Friends of Yate Station Group is discussing current issues and ideas for improving the station, train and bus services. The group is encouraging local rail users to report problems to
• The Joint Parishes Traffic Management Group has discussed the travel plan for the the new South Gloucestershire Council offices on Badminton Road.
• Yate Town Council and South Gloucestershire Council have each agreed to donate £650,000 towards the Youth Cafe, and a public consultation event has been arranged.
• The possibility of a Youth Gym at the former King Edmund School has been raised.
• An audio and visual pilot of electronic display boards will be run at the new Yate Library, opening in October.
• There are plans to improve the public open spaces at the corners of Westerleigh Road/Station Road.
• The idea has been proposed to create a Yate In Bloom group.

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.