With coronavirus restrictions set to be gradually eased in the coming weeks, the staging of the 2021 Bradley Stoke Community Festival, due to take place on the weekend of 11th-13th June, is hanging in the balance. A final ‘go / no go’ decision is likely to be made by town councillors on 21st April.
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A by-election has been called for the Bradley Stoke North parish ward after former mayor Elaine Hardwick resigned her seat in January. The by-election will be held on Thursday 6th May 2021, along with the elections for the West of England mayor and the Avon and Somerset Police and Crime Commissioner.
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Find out why a tree in Bradley Stoke was decorated with over 40 paper doves, all with the word ‘peace’ written in different languages. You may have spotted the tree in an area of green space just north of Bradley Stoke Surgery.
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End of life charity Marie Curie is calling on residents of the Stokes to support its flagship fundraising campaign, the Great Daffodil Appeal – which has reached its 35th anniversary this month – but has, for the first time, had to cancel all of its iconic public collections.
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Bradley Stoke Bowls Club has already arranged a full season of fixtures in the hope that bowling could resume as normal or in a Covid-safe way from around mid-April, subject to the government’s roadmap out of the coronavirus lockdown being achieved.
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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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Thousands of residents in parts of Bradley Stoke, Little Stoke and Patchway are being asked to take part in a week-long programme of Covid-19 community testing following the identification of two cases of a ‘variant of concern’ in the area.
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Secondary-age students at Bradley Stoke Community School who have been remote learning since the beginning of the third Covid-19 lockdown in early January will recommence in-school learning on Monday 15th March 2021.
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Residents of the Stokes are now able to hire ‘hop-on, hop-off’ e-scooters after a trial scheme established in Bristol city centre in October 2020 was expanded to cover Bradley Stoke and Stoke Gifford. Clusters of coral-coloured e-scooters have appeared at MetroBus stops and other key locations in the area.
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A fleet of tipper trucks is making hundreds of journeys a week through Bradley Stoke to remove 20,000 cubic metres of earth from a housing development area just south of the town, despite councillors being told that all excavated material would be reused ‘on site’.
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