The Stokes Medical Centre in Braydon Avenue, Little Stoke, has submitted a second application for its planned extension after the initial plans were rejected by South Gloucestershire Council. The earlier application, made in January, was withdrawn after planning officials indicated that they were minded to refuse it “on design grounds and non contribution to transport measures”. A new application was
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Bradley Stoke Community School has had its funding application for a post-16 centre approved by the Learning and Skills Council. Plans for a two-storey sixth form centre, dance studio/gym and single-storey changing rooms were submitted to South Gloucestershire Council in July 2008 and received approval from planning officials in September 2008. Writing in today’s school newsletter, headteacher Dave Baker says:
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A video report made by students from Bradley Stoke Community School has been published on the BBC News website as part of the corporation’s annual School Report project. The BBC runs School Report so that young people from across the UK have the chance to make their own news to real deadlines and broadcast it to real audiences. Today is
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The opening of Ladbrokes’ new betting office at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre has moved a step closer with the submission of an application for a premises licence. Representations about the application may be made to South Gloucestershire Council until 13th April, meaning that the office will not open in time for the Grand National betting frenzy (4th April), but
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The Willow Brook Centre has announced that Pitman Training (Bristol North) is to open soon at Bradley Stoke’s new shopping centre. The buisness training outfit, currently operating from Bradley Pavilions in Pear Tree Road, becomes the third ‘office business’ in as many weeks to announce a relocation from premises elsewhere in the town Estate agents CJ Hole are already operational
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Bradley Stoke Town Council has approved an application by Papas Pizzas to trade from the car park of Baileys Court Activity Centre [map] on Thursday and Friday nights. The application was unanimously approved at a Planning Environment & Ameneties Committee meeting on 25th February. Proprietor Santiago Pablo must now obtain a trading licence from South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) and an
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Bradley Stoke Mayor Robert Jones has received a letter of apology from the South West Regional Development Agency (SWRDA) following the publication of derogatory comments about the town in a Bristol Evening Post (BEP) article. SWRDA Area Director for the West of England and Gloucestershire Ian Knight says he had no editorial control over the article, which carried the headline
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Two Bradley Stoke Councillors are to call upon South Gloucestershire Council to demand better broadband services from BT and other operators serving the area. The move follows a decision by Bradley Stoke Town Council to write to BT and Virgin Media to express concern that “Bradley Stoke is not getting a 21st century service for a 21st century town”. Being
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Thornbury Running Club has been praised for its new aquathlon, staged for the first time last weekend in Bradley Stoke. The event, at Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre, involved competitors swimming either 500m or 1,000m, then running 5km or 10km. Despite a forecast of thunder, hail and sleet, 86 competitors turned up to race. “Thornbury Running Club have to be congratulated
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Businesses at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre have been criticised by a local resident for their lack of action in addressing an alleged litter problem on the footpaths surrounding the shopping development. Holly Mieville-Hawkins (pictured with husband Luke Palmer), who lives in Dewfalls Drive, has delivered a protest letter to a number of stores at the centre. In the letter,
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