Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve Archives

Map showing the location of the spoil dump area that will be used during the upcoming lake desilting operation. The route of a surfaced path that will be created as part of the project is also shown.

Sunday 10th May 2020 TH (Reporter)

Lake desilting project: Further details released

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.

Photo of Cllrs John Ashe (left) and Roger Avenin at the lake.

Wednesday 19th February 2020 SH (Editor)

Council finds £250k to pay for lake desilting

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

Photo of flooding at the Three Brooks Lake on Friday 11th October 2019.

Sunday 17th November 2019 SH (Editor)

Flooding brings renewed calls for lake dredging

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

Photo of volunteers from the conservation group planning and marking the route of the new woodland paths.

Thursday 30th May 2019 SH (Editor)

Three Brooks nature reserve receives £25,000 grant for accessibility improvements

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,

Trolletheus, God of Three Brooks (acrylic), by Susan Hartry.

Saturday 30th March 2019 SH (Editor)

Art group gives ‘God of the Three Brooks’ a face

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

Saturday 1st December 2018 SH (Editor)

[Letter] Action needed to save Three Brooks lake

Have you visited the Three Books Lake recently? It is in a sorry state and the council does not appear to be in any hurry to do anything about it. More and more of the silt is building up and turning into a solid state i.e. land in which grass etc. can take root. Where there is water, it is