An ageing play area at Bowsland Green Primary School has been transformed after parents and staff raised £19,000 towards installing exciting new equipment.
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Year: 2020
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South Glos council tax to rise by 3.99 percent
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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Year 6 pupils learn ‘skills for life’ at Bristol safety education centre
Pupils from Baileys Court Primary School are the latest local children to have visited Bristol’s Lifeskills Safety Education Centre, which receives grant funding support from Bradley Stoke Town Council.
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Roundabout work sees 200 tonnes of material removed in first six weeks
South Gloucestershire Council’s £2.9m scheme to improve to increase capacity and improve cyclist and pedestrian facilities at Great Stoke (Rabbit) Roundabout has seen 200 tonnes of material excavated from the verge on the north-west side of the roundabout during the first six weeks of construction activity. This work, combined with the laying of 60 metres of new kerb on the
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By-election set to see around 6,700 voters called to the polls in Bradley Stoke South
A by-election to fill a vacant seat representing the South ward on Bradley Stoke Town Council looks almost certain to take place in the last week of March. The vacancy arose after Nikki Hallur, a Conservative councillor elected just eight months ago in the May 2019 poll, handed in her resignation in mid-January, citing “personal reasons”. A notice of election
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[Letter] What are they doing to our town centre?
Cllr Roger Avenin asks: “How did such a down-market development such as McDonald’s and Starbucks come to be foisted upon our town?”
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Local mum and son team become published authors
Local resident Alicia Chrysostomou and her son Sebastian were amazed to have become published authors on 28th January. Their book, ‘The Chronicles of Cerberus’, was published by Mogzilla, an independent company which specialises in historical stories for children. ‘The Chronicles of Cerberus’ is a children’s book targeted at 6- to 9-year-olds and is set in Ancient Greece. The book had
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Local residents in training for 110-mile cancer charity walk
A group of twelve Bradley Stoke residents have been wearing out their shoe leather at an alarming rate as they train for a marathon five-day charity walk in aid of cancer research. They are part of a team of 20 fundraisers, led by local man Matt Baggott, who are planning to walk the 110 miles from the British Gypsum works
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Councillors overruled: McDonald’s and Starbucks drive-throughs allowed on appeal
Editor’s note: This article, first published in our February magazine, is an extended version of an earlier website article that was published on 16th January 2020 (the day the planning inspector’s report was released). Bradley Stoke looks set to get two new drive-through and sit-in fast food restaurants after a planning inspector allowed an appeal against South Gloucestershire Council’s decision
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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
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