South Gloucestershire Council is asking residents to complete a satisfaction survey on the rubbish and recycling services it provides through contracting firm SITA. For the first time, residents are this year able to complete this survey online, in the hope that more residents will take part and reduce the environmental impact of the survey. Working in partnership with South Gloucestershire
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[Forum] Royal Wedding celebrations in Bradley Stoke
At Wednesday night’s meeting, Bradley Stoke Town Council proposed spending some £3,500 of council tax payers’ money (possibly rising to £4,500) on celebrating the forthcoming Royal Wedding. This will take the form of a large TV screen, stalls and bunting etc. Personally I am against this proposal, especially in the light of our current financial and economic conditions but I
Continue reading[Forum] Where do you want your Council?
Having read of the Town Council’s desire to mess around and wreck with the ‘Jubilee Centre’ to accommodate themselves at great expense to the local tax payer whilst diminishing the usefulness of the building, would a better option not be to use all the empty office space above the ‘Willow Brook Centre’ so the seat of local government is right
Continue readingBradley Stoke could lose out to Downs fireworks
Bristol City Council’s move to stage a free fireworks display on the Downs next year could result in a smaller attendance at Bradley Stoke Town Council’s corresponding event at the Jubilee Centre. Crowds at the local display have been boosted in the past two years, following cancellation of the Bristol event previously organised by Bristol Round Table and Clifton Rotary
Continue reading[Forum] Town Council office consultation is missing a Willow Brook option
Bradley Stoke resident John Miller asks why the Town Council’s currently-running public consultation on the future location of the Council’s office lacks an option for a relocation of the office to the Willow Brook Centre. For years the expectation has been that when the District Centre was completed, the BSTC administration Office would move down into it. Being more central
Continue readingLabour Councillor criticised by Bradley Stoke Tory in elderly care row
A District Councillor representing Bradley Stoke has told a Labour Councillor to “make up his mind” about transparency and the provision of care for the elderly. Cllr Sarah Pomfret, who represents the Bradley Stoke Central & Stoke Lodge ward on South Gloucestershire Council (SGC), says Cllr Andy Perkins (Woodstock) needs to: “make up his mind about transparency and how councils
Continue readingDoorstep food waste and plastic collections on the way
Kerbside collections of food waste and plastic bottles look set to be introduced in South Gloucestershire following talks between the District Council and waste contractor SITA. If approved at a cabinet meeting on Monday 17th May, the plans would see food waste (in caddies) collected weekly and plastic bottles (in a ‘green sack’) collected every two weeks. More info: Doorstep
Continue readingTown Council grants £2k to local organisations
Bradley Stoke Town Council has awarded grants totaling nearly £2,000 to four local organisations. Sole Sisters (North Bristol) Running Club has once again been awarded £500 towards the cost of staging the Bradley Stoke 10k Run as part of the Community Festival weekend in June. The new Bradley Stoke Bowls Club has been awarded £500 towards the cost of new
Continue readingMayor calls “Extraordinary and Confidential” Council meeting
Bradley Stoke’s Mayor Mark Forsyth has called an Extraordinary and Confidential Meeting of Full Council on Wednesday 28th April, starting at 7pm. The meeting will preceed the regular Planning Committee meeting, which is scheduled to begin at 7:30pm. The main agenda topic is to “consider and action the recent Council Staff Pay Grading and Restructuring Review”. Due to employee/employer confidentiality
Continue readingExposed: Town Council’s sham consultation process
Draft minutes of a recent Bradley Stoke Town Council meeting appear to expose a deceitful attitude to the public consultation process. A resident attending last week’s Full Council meeting queried why the agenda indicated that discussion of issues surrounding the relocation of the Council’s offices would be held in private. Draft minutes of the 17th March meeting, recently published on
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