A Bradley Stoke Town Councillor has criticised the town’s newly-introduced part-night street lighting scheme by claiming it violates residents’ human rights. Speaking at last week’s Safer and Stronger Communities meeting, Cllr Ed Rose said he supported calls by some residents for the lights to be turned back on because they have a right to “liberty and security” (Article 5 of
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Councillors could be in for a hard time at tonight’s meeting of the Bradley Stoke Safer and Stronger Community Group, where a number of residents are expected to protest against the recently completed part-night switch-off of street lights in Bradley Stoke. The programme to adjust the lights so that they switch off between (nominally) midnight and 5am began in April
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A software “anomaly” is the latest snag to hit the roll-out of part-night street lighting in Bradley Stoke. South Gloucestershire Council says it will now have to revisit 2,000 street light columns that were recently fitted with special part-night photocells because a software anomaly in the units can lead to “erratic and varied” operation of the lights. Between 28th April
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The roll-out of part-night street lighting in Bradley Stoke is once again on hold after newly-fitted photocells in the lamps started to malfunction. An upgrade programme to adjust the lights so that they would turn off for five hours a night between midnight and 6am, with the aim of saving money and cutting carbon emissions, began in early April. Work
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Bradley Stoke Mayor Ben Walker has raised £10,005 for his chosen charity, St Peter’s Hospice, during his year in office which came to an end last night at the Annual General Meeting of the Town Council. A cheque for the record amount, raised throughout the year at a number of events, including the Community Festival and Fireworks Display, was presented
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Four former-Mayors are amongst seven current Bradley Stoke Town Councillors who have chosen not to stand for re-election on Thursday 5th May. Cllrs Julian Barge (Mayor 2003/04, 2005/06 & 2007/08), Ronnie Conway-Haskins (2006/07), Mark Forsyth (2009/10) and Sandra Hobson (2005/06) have all chosen not to contest the upcoming Town Council election that sees a total of 29 candidates fighting the 15
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The implementation of a scheme to switch-off most of Bradley Stoke’s street lights for five hours a night has resumed following a one week suspension after South Gloucestershire Council experienced a surge in complaints The big switch-off started in early April after members of Bradley Stoke Town Council voted for the scheme to be implemented following a public consultation in
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The majority of street lights in Bradley Stoke are set to be turned off for five hours a night, after a public consultation found that 54% of respondents agreed with an energy-saving scheme put forward by South Gloucestershire Council (SGC). A further 23% of respondents said they supported the scheme in general but submitted suggestions for amendments. The big switch-off
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No you haven’t slept through winter and woken up on 1st April, that really is a question to be considered by Town Councillors at a meeting of the Leisure, Youth and Amenities (LYA) Committee this evening (Monday 13th December). Following the launch, earlier this month, of a government competition to choose a town in the UK which will be bestowed
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Have your say: Should the lights go out in YOUR street? Bradley Stoke Town Council’s public drop-in session to discuss proposals for part-night street lighting takes place tomorrow (Saturday 4th December) from 10am to 2pm at the Jubilee Centre, Savages Wood Road. South Gloucestershire Council’s (SGC’s) suggestion that Bradley Stoke might like to introduce an overnight switch-off of selected streetlights
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