Councillors and Staff

Cllr Nick Davies

Nick is a chartered surveyor with over 25 years’ experience in the commercial property sector. He moved to New Passage with his wife and children a dozen years ago and has served on the Parish Council.

Nick enjoys basketball as a spectator and has recently started training to become a basketball table official.
Nick is also a member of Pilning & Severn Beach Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group.

Cllr Ian S Roberts

Cllr Stephanie Rutterford

Cllr Olga Taylor

Having spent my childhood and adolescence in the USSR, I moved to Olveston in 1996, and then to Pilning in 2000, where my husband and I built a house on our family farm.

I work for an IT company as a data analyst; and I am also a member of Orthopaedic Data Evaluation Panel, an independent panel of experts who benchmark medical implants.

As the Chairman of Pilning Station Group (formed in 2016) and I am an ardent advocate for public transport and sustainability, I am trying to make a contribution to the local community with regards to transport, in the hope to improve the local environment and the quality of life in our Parish.

Cllr Victoria Bywater

Victoria has been a resident in Pilning since 2007 with her husband Richard and two children. Since 2021, Victoria is working from home as a co-director of a management consultancy company, Fortis9 Limited specialising in the management of national membership organisations including events and training as well as consultancy work.

Victoria represents the Parish Council on Pilning Village Hall Management Committee.

As a keen horse rider, Victoria has a particular interest in local PRoW.

Cllr Grace Clarke

Pilning & Severn Beach Parish Council were pleased to welcome Grace at the meeting on 2nd March 2026.

More details to follow

Cllr Stephen Graham

Stephen Graham is looking forward to help give something back to the community that he has lived in for the last fourteen years.

Stephen has a particular interest in health provision and transport issues, especially railways.

Cllr Mike Pruett BSc (Hons), HND

Mike was born in Severn Beach in 1970 and still resident.

Quantity Surveyor by profession but now a graphic design consultant.

Specialising in photographic colourisation, typography and illustration.

Advocate for the protection of the local environment and health & wellbeing of everyone in Severn Beach and surrounds.

I am on the following council committees:

• Footpaths / Cycling
• Finance
• Village Hall (PC Rep) – Severn Beach
• Governor on the Edmond & Coles – Merchant Venturers charity.

Current projects and concerns:

• Severnside Industrial Noise affecting the village.
• Orchards Pools habitat loss.
• Western Approaches 1957 planning abuse.
• Investigating the possibilities of cycling provisions for the village in the form of a Pump Track etc.
• and many more.

Contact me via the methods below.

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Alderman Peter Tyzack

Peter moved to Severn Beach from Bristol in 1987.

He was councillor for Pilning & Severn Beach on South Glos Council from 1995-2011 and during that time was on the planning committee and was Chair of the Severn Estuary Partnership.

He was a governor of Severn Beach School when his two children were pupils there, and later was a governor of St Peter’s school during the transition to the new building.

He also helped to set up the Severn Beach regeneration group and the Local History Group.

Jonathan Edwardes

I have lived in the parish all my life and attended Redwick and Northwick School.

Most of my career has been working on the railway in the operations side of the industry.

I am Director of music for St Peter’s Festival Choir and the Treasurer for St Peter’s Church Pilning.

Odile McIntosh

Otherwise known as Del, my role as Cemetery Clerk started in 2018 when I was asked to introduce new policies, a transparent pricing structure, an online burial search facility, and re-draw all the burial maps making the
records clearer for many years to come.

Although I do not live in Pilning, I moved to Bristol/South Glos over 40 years ago and I am often seen walking around the burial sites.

I am married with two offspring; my son is all grown up and my daughter is in secondary school.

My dedication to bereaved families stems back over 25 years when I started out in the Funeral Industry. In 2003 I qualified as a Funeral Director and embarked on an exciting career, my experience is vast and stems from in burial law, exhumations, repatriations, embalming, probate law through to memorials.

I like to make sure all families are treated with great respect; dignity and I am driven to make sure that everything runs smoothly at a very difficult time. Although this is an additional role to my full-time job, I am always happy to provide support where I can.