An update from Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. The Common East Following on from our last workday at The Common East, our insect hotel has been a real success! It has delighted both young and not so young and, each time we go back, we meet many local children who are all eager to learn about
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Bradley Stoke Town Council says it is hopeful that a new concrete skate park within the grounds of the leisure centre will be ready for the school summer holidays next year, but probably not in time for the community festival in June, as had originally been planned. The £260k funding for the park has been raised from various sources, including
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Bradley Stoke Town Council has ordered an increase in the frequency of emptying of ten of the 33 remaining dog waste bins in the town, following scores of complaints about bins regularly overflowing after cost-saving measures were introduced earlier this year. The number of dog waste bins in the town was reduced from 57 to 33 in the first weeks
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The 1st Bradley Stoke Scout Group and the Willow Brook Centre are inviting local residents to attend a Remembrance Day ceremony in the town square at 10.45am tomorrow morning (Sunday 9th November). The ceremony will be preceded by a parade that leaves the Jubilee Centre at 10.30am, marching along Savages Wood Road to the Willow Brook Centre. Stoke Gifford’s traditional
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Two Year 9 students and a teacher from Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) have undertaken a four day trip to First World War (WW1) battlefield and cemetery sites as part of a government-funded initiative to commemorate the centenary of the 1914-19 conflict. Under the scheme, every state funded secondary school in England is being given the opportunity to send two
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A bus travel survey conducted during October on The Journal’s website and Facebook page has revealed high levels of dissatisfaction with the reliability and punctuality of the 73, X73 and X74 services that link Bradley Stoke with Cribbs Causeway and Bristol city centre. The survey, which is ongoing and has so far attracted more than 200 comments, was initiated in
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Residents of Bradley Stoke who are hoping to benefit from the rollout of superfast broadband through a state-aided investment programme say they are frustrated and confused by the sparse and conflicting information being made available to them by South Gloucestershire Council (SGC), which is managing the project. As previously reported in The Journal, the occupiers of around 1,700 homes in
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The November 2014 edition of the Bradley Stoke Journal magazine has been dropping on doormats this weekend. This month’s feature story is the submission of a planning application to build 2,675 new homes on the site of the former Filton Airfield. The site is part of the wider Cribbs/Patchway New Neighbourhood, where a total of 5,700 new homes are expected to
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Bradley Stoke’s ever-popular Town Council Fireworks Display takes place on Sunday (2nd November 2014) at the Jubilee Centre, Savages Wood Road [BS32 8HL, map]. As in previous years, entrance to the display is free but there will an entry point collection for the Mayor’s charities, which this year are the Royal British Legion and the Great Western Air Ambulance. With the costs
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Residents have the chance to voice their opinions on matters affecting the local area at a meeting of the Bradley Stoke Safer and Stronger Community Group (SSCG) this Thursday (30th October) at the Baileys Court Activity Centre, Baileys Court Road (BS32 8BH; 7pm start). SSCGs influence how services are delivered locally, establish longer-term plans to improve areas, help prevent future problems, and
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