The March 2014 edition of the Bradley Stoke Journal magazine will be dropping on doormats this weekend. The headline story concerns South Gloucestershire Council’s implementation of charges for garden waste collection from 31st March. Residents who wish to continue to have their green bin emptied from that date can subscribe now via the council’s website. The optional service costs £36 per
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Bradley Stoke residents have this week received the first detailed information about South Gloucestershire Council’s new subscription-only green bin waste collection service, with hangers being placed on bins during the weekly rounds. Residents who wish to continue to receive the service from 31st March can subscribe now via the council’s website. The optional service costs £36 per year and includes fortnightly
Continue readingBradley Stoke community projects could benefit by almost a quarter of a million pounds if decisions go their way at a meeting of South Gloucestershire Council’s (SGC’s) Southern Brooks Area Forum in Stoke Gifford on Tuesday night (25th February). The largest application, for funding from the forum’s New Homes Bonus allocation, is for £225,000 towards the cost of creating a “new, bespoke
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Artist’s impressions of the proposed new ‘primary phase’ building at Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) were made available at consultation events held at the school last week. The secondary school, which is part of the Olympus Academy Trust, is currently staging a public consultation on its proposal to become an ‘all through’ school for the 4-19 age range. Funding for the project
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Work is finally under way to bring faster broadband services to the first of around 3,500 homes in Bradley Stoke that are connected to the Almondsbury telephone exchange (serving 01454 numbers) and have no access to the Virgin Media cable network. The homes that will benefit lie within ‘intervention areas’ in which BT, Virgin Media and other prospective network providers
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The Bradley Stoke Youth FC (BSYFC) Under-11 Girls managed to get their game moved to the Gloucestershire FA artificial pitch at Oakland Park (Almondsbury) on Sunday so they could play Whitchurch, a team they have beaten 14-0 and 5-1 already this season, and they successfully made it three wins out of three with a 4-1 victory. After a long period
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Entries have now opened for the 2014 renewal of the Bradley Stoke 10k Run, to be held on Sunday 8th June as part of the town’s Community Festival. Organised by local ladies-only running club Sole Sisters, the race starts and finishes at the Jubilee Centre in Savages Wood Road, where there will also be free car parking, showers, toilets and
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Scott Lahive, manager of the Willow Brook Centre (Bradley Stoke’s “shopping and town centre”) since it opened in October 2008, has moved on to pastures new after six years in the job. Journal editor Stephen Horton caught up with Mr Lahive in mid-January, as he prepared to hand over the reins to his successor in early February. When did you
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Bradley Stoke’s only banking facility, the Santander agency branch at the Willow Brook Centre, is to close “within six months”, The Journal has learned. A reader with an account at the branch contacted us yesterday (Thursday 13th February) to say she had received a letter stating that the Bradley Stoke branch would be closing “later this year”. The news was
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The Tesco Extra store in Bradley Stoke is set to launch a Click & Collect service next week, enabling customers to collect pre-ordered groceries from a ‘pod’ (kiosk) in the car park of the Willow Brook Centre. The pod has been constructed over the last few weeks at a location on the northern edge of the car park, to the
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