South Gloucestershire Council has opened a public consultation on plans to incorporate a raised table into an existing zebra crossing on Brook Way. Within the last five years, two injury incidents occurred when drivers failed to stop for pedestrians on the zebra crossing.
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South Gloucestershire Council’s element of the council tax levied on local households is to increase by 4.99 percent from April 2021. The latest rise follows uplifts of 3.99 percent in 2020/21 and 2.99 percent in 2019/20.
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A Bradley Stoke councillor and former soldier has been appointed South Gloucestershire Council’s first black Cabinet member. Cllr Franklin Owusu-Antwi will be a ‘champion for equality of opportunity’ in a newly created portfolio position which also includes public health.
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For the first time since March, members of the public are now able to drop into Bradley Stoke Library without an appointment and browse the books on offer. The number of people using the library at one time will be limited and IT users are encouraged to book in advance.
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A proposal to introduce a new planning policy that would distance fast food outlets from all schools in South Gloucestershire is to be fast-tracked following intervention by the local authority’s Conservative administration.
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The lake will be desilted by machine and the silt moved using dumper trucks to a spoil area (behind BSCS) which has recently been cleared in preparation for the main scheme starting in the autumn. Additionally, a 300-metre stretch of pathway along the northern edge of the lake will be surfaced.
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South Gloucestershire Council’s (SGC’s) element of the council tax levied on local households is to increase by 3.99 percent from April.
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Councillors in Bradley Stoke have welcomed South Gloucestershire Council’s (SGC’s) allocation of £250,000 to an environmental project that will see the lake in the Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve desilted for the first time in 15 years. The lake, which regularly floods due to its current condition, is in acute need of desilting and has been the subject of public
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The start of the construction phase of South Gloucestershire Council’s (SGC’s) £2.9m scheme of improvements at Great Stoke (Rabbit) Roundabout on Thursday 2nd January has brought peak-time gridlock to Bradley Stoke on a scale rarely seen since the notorious MetroBus roadworks of 2015-17. Perhaps due to a staggered return to work after the Christmas and New Year break, the full
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Motorists in the Stokes are being warned to expect delays at a major roundabout on the local road network in the new year. Improvement works at Great Stoke Roundabout (a.k.a. Rabbit Roundabout), on the border between Bradley Stoke and Stoke Gifford, are due to start on Thursday 2nd January and are expected to take 12 months to complete. The £2.9
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