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South Glos council tax to rise by 4.99% for 2024/25

South Gloucestershire Council’s element of the council tax levied on local households is to increase by 4.99 percent from April 2024. The latest rise follows an identical uplift of 4.99 percent in 2023/24 and 2.99 percent in 2022/23. This year’s increase once again includes a ring-fenced adult social care levy of 2 percent. Bradley Stoke households in a Band D property face an annual increase of £108.48.

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International Women’s Day event in Bradley Stoke this Friday (8th March 2024)

International Women’s Day will be celebrated at an event in Bradley Stoke this Friday (8th March) when an innovative community textile project will be launched. The project will see representatives of Bradley Stoke Town Council and Southern Brooks working with local schools and community groups to produce pieces of embroidery which can be sewn onto a red dress.

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Revised plans submitted for Bradley Stoke Way apartments scheme

Woodstock Homes has submitted revised plans for its application to build a two-block apartment scheme on land at the southern end of Bradley Stoke Way. Following discussions with South Glos Council, the applicant has now revised its plans to reduce the number of apartments from 57 to 50, in order to “create space on the ground for additional parking and an offset from Bradley Stoke Way”.

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Council designates Woodlands Golf Course “preferred site” for 1,750 homes

The likelihood that thousands of new homes will be built on Woodlands Golf Course near Bradley Stoke has increased after the location was identified as a ‘preferred site’ in the latest draft of South Gloucestershire Council’s emerging Local Plan. Local Conservative councillors have opposed building on the golf course site, saying it will be “enormously damaging for Bradley Stoke” and lead to “traffic chaos”.

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Man charged following sexual assaults in Bradley Stoke in summer 2022

A 37-year-old man has been charged following an investigation into sexual assaults committed in the Bradley Stoke area in the summer of 2022. From a total of four charges, two relate to incidents in the Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve while the other two relate to incidents at Primrose Bridge. The man has been released on conditional bail to appear at court on Tuesday 19th March.

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Ofsted inspectors find BSCS has maintained its status as a ‘good’ school

Senior staff at Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) say they are “delighted” that Ofsted has confirmed that the all-through academy “continues to be a good school” following a visit by inspectors last November. The latest Ofsted visit came more than five years after the school was given an overall grading of ‘good’, with some ‘outstanding’ aspects, at its last inspection in May 2018.

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Bradley Stoke man among four charged with petrol station robbery

A Bradley Stoke man is among a group of people charged with robbery and carrying a bladed article following an incident at a local petrol filling station. Police were called to the BP filling station on the A38 Gloucester Road in Woodhouse Down, near Almondsbury, at 3am on Friday after staff reported that someone armed with a large knife or sword had forced their way into the forecourt shop.

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Bradley Stoke’s One Below store to close on Sunday (14th January)

The One Below discount store at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre will close down this Sunday (14th January), according to notices displayed in the shop’s windows. An “everything must go” clearance sale is currently in progress with “up to 50 percent off”. One Below opened at the centre in September 2019. Prior to this the One Below unit had been occupied by Poundworld.

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Council scales back face-to-face surgeries due to lack of engagement

Bradley Stoke Town Council has scaled back its programme of regular ‘meet your councillor’ events after an initiative to host additional sessions at a range of new locations across the town failed to stimulate increased engagement from residents. Going forward, the events will revert to being held just once a month, on the last Saturday of the month, at the Willow Brook Centre.

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