South Gloucestershire Council has announced the imminent start of work to desilt the lake in Bradley Stoke’s popular Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve for the first time in 16 years. It is expected that footpath and cycle way closures will be in effect for a period of up to 21 days starting 1st November 2021.
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A blockage in a sewer pipe is thought to have led to a pollution incident that has had devastating consequences for aquatic wildlife in Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Lake. Following sightings of fish struggling to breathe and dying on Friday 27th August, the Environment Agency was immediately alerted via its pollution incident hotline.
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South Gloucestershire Council has announced that its £250,000 project to desilt the lake at Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve has been delayed until November 2021. The work was supposed to take place this winter, but has now been rescheduled due to delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Further work to improve footpaths to provide year-round access in Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve is now under way. The project is an extension of the improvements made in Savages Wood last year, when more than 500m of paths were upgraded.
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Children from a local school have created a ‘happiness snake’ along the side of a local footpath to cheer people up during the current coronavirus emergency. Located near the Ellicks Close footbridge, the colourful snake was created by Year 3 pupils at Bowsland Green Primary School.
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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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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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Another episode of flooding in Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve, on the morning of Friday 11th October, saw paths covered in several feet of water, making them impassable for children walking to school and commuters using the Concorde Way cycling route. The incident has brought renewed calls for South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) to expedite dredging of the Three
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A project to improve access to the Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve in Bradley Stoke has been given a boost, thanks to a grant of £25,000 from Enovert Community Trust. Three Brooks is a popular nature reserve covering 60 hectares of tranquil woodland and meadows and lies at the heart of the town of Bradley Stoke. Some of the woodland dates back over 400 years,
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A chance encounter between Susan Hartry of the Stokes Art Group (SAG) and Sara Messenger of the Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group (TBNCG) last spring sparked an idea for an art project. Sara explained that just as the River Severn has Sabrina Goddess of the River, the Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve has a God called Trolletheus – named
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