Work has started on one of the last remaining plots of building land in Bradley Stoke where 21 affordable homes are to be built by housing association LiveWest. The scheme comprises a terrace of nine family homes, a block of eleven ‘supported living’ apartments and a separate wheelchair-accessible bungalow. Completion is scheduled for April 2024,
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The 2023 Bradley Stoke Community Festival looks set to be dramatically scaled down in scope after bumbling councillors failed to secure the services of a professional event organiser. This year’s event is due to take place from Friday 9th June to Sunday 11th June, but its scale and composition are now likely to differ significantly from the traditional format…
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Residents facing soaring energy bills amid forecasts of freezing temperatures in the coming days are being offered the opportunity of using a number of free community ‘warm spaces’ that have been set up around Bradley Stoke. These are at two local churches and all three of the town council’s activity centres. Bradley Stoke Library is also being promoted as a haven of warmth.
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Members of 1st Bradley Stoke Scout Group are busy preparing for the annual Remembrance parade and ceremony on Sunday 13th November. Local youth groups will parade from the Jubilee Centre. The Remembrance ceremony will take place in the town square at the Willow Brook Centre. All members of the community are invited to attend.
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Staff and children at Happy Days Nursery & Pre-School in Bradley Stoke are celebrating their second successive ‘outstanding’ Ofsted inspection report. Situated within the Almondsbury Business Park, off Woodlands Lane, the setting opened its doors in 2015, receiving an ‘outstanding’ Ofsted judgement at its first inspection in July 2016. This has now been followed with another top rating following an inspection in August.
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Bradley Stoke in one of three areas in South Gloucestershire that have been chosen to take part in a trial to collect plastic bags and wrapping from homes as part of normal weekly recycling collections. Collections will begin from 17th October, with selected households taking part (approximately 2,000 in total across South Gloucestershire). More homes are set to be added in 2023.
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A sub-committee of three councillors is set to decide whether the soon-to-open McDonald’s restaurant and drive-through at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre will be permitted to trade during the ‘late night’ hours of 11pm to 5am. The licensing hearing takes place at the South Gloucestershire Council civic centre in Kingswood on Tuesday (6th September).
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Entrants in this year’s Bradley Stoke in Bloom ‘Best Front Garden’ competition were presented with prizes and certificates at a ceremony staged on Saturday 13th August as part of the Scarecrow Trail launch event. The competition, now in its tenth year, attracted 15 entrants across its two (large and small garden) categories.
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Alive Activities, a local charity supporting older people, is pleased to announce the official opening of its newest Dementia Meeting Centre, at Bradley Stoke Evangelical Church. The meeting centre is the first to open in South Gloucestershire and the third one for Alive, following on from the success of its two other meeting centres in North Somerset and Bristol.
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Giuseppe Dell’Anno, 2021 winner of TV’s ‘The Great British Bake Off’, was the star guest at this year’s ‘Wheatfest’ summer fair held at Wheatfield Primary School, where he acted as judge for ‘The Great Wheatfest Bake Off’ competition. The fair was blessed with glorious weather and it raised an astounding £6,468 for the organising PTA.
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