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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Willow Brook Centre electric vehicle chargers approved at third attempt
An array of 16 ultra-rapid electric vehicle (EV) chargers looks set to be installed soon at the Willow Brook shopping centre in Bradley Stoke, more than five months after a planning application for the facility was first submitted. And following a separate application, two EV chargers may soon be provided in the car park at Bradley Pavilions (near Tesco Express).
Continue readingCommittee gives green light to “Bradley Stoke Lidl” planning application
A discount food store operator – rumoured to be Lidl – has been given permission to extend and move into a unit at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre, despite concerns over a loss of parking. Anchor store Tesco and a South Gloucestershire ward councillor objected to the plans by the centre’s owners because it would mean losing a further 55 car park spaces…
Continue reading“Bradley Stoke Lidl” planning application set for decision next week
The fate of a planning application to create an extended retail unit at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre – rumoured to be destined for occupation by Lidl – is set to be decided by a committee of South Gloucestershire councillors next week. Total car parking provision at the centre would be reduced by 55 spaces (from 927 to 872).
Continue readingYouth arrested following “firearm” incident at McDonald’s in Bradley Stoke
Police have made an arrest following an incident at the McDonald’s restaurant in Bradley Stoke in which a youth was seen with an object that “looked like a handgun”. Police attended and after examining CCTV footage a 16-year-old was arrested two days later. He has since been released on conditional bail. Enquiries are ongoing and anyone with information is asked to call 101.
Continue readingBradley Stoke McDonald’s now trading for an extra seven hours a week
Bradley Stoke’s new McDonald’s restaurant and drive-through has extended its opening times by one hour a day and now closes at 11pm seven days a week. The outlet has planning permission for 24-hour operation, coupled with a late night food and drink licence, but when it opened in September the operator chose to restrict trading hours to 6am to 10pm each day.
Continue readingStarbucks to open at the Willow Brook Centre on Wednesday (14th December)
A new Starbucks store, operated by regional licensee Cobra Coffee, will be opening at the Willow Brook Centre in Bradley Stoke tomorrow (Wednesday 14th December), creating 17 new jobs in the local community. This will be the sixth Starbucks store in and around Bristol operated by Cobra Coffee, which is owned by Southern Co-op.
Continue readingPlans go in for 16 electric vehicle chargers at Bradley Stoke shopping centre
Bradley Stoke residents and visitors to the town could soon to able to charge their electric vehicles (EVs) at the Willow Brook shopping centre, if a planning application submitted by Osprey Charging Network gains approval from South Gloucestershire Council. The operator, which has over 200 sites across the UK, wants to install an array of 16 ultra-rapid EV chargers…
Continue readingSexual health test kit vending machine installed in Bradley Stoke
A vending machine offering free sexual health testing kits has been installed in one of the entrance foyers at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre. The device, one of four recently installed in Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset, provides an easy, free, fast and confidential way to test for sexually transmitted infections, including HIV.
Continue readingWillow Brook Centre submits plans for new foodstore in extended retail unit
Plans have been submitted for the creation of a large new foodstore at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre which would be created by more than doubling the size of the retail unit currently occupied by Poundstretcher. The centre’s management has declined to comment on rumours that a well-known discount retailer wishes to occupy the unit.
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