Optical retailer Specsavers today becomes the latest outlet to open for trading at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre. The opticians group was first revealed as a new tenant in July and workers moved in to fit out the unit last month. The new store, in mall unit 4 (to the left of the Carphone Warehouse shop), will be open from
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Construction of a new Multiple Sclerosis Therapy centre on land off Bradley Stoke Way could start before the end of the month according to a planning document published by SouthGloucestershire Council (SGC). Planning officials recommended that the project be given the go-ahead earlier this month and their decision has now been confirmed after Council members chose not to “call in”
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Liberal Democrats in Bradley Stoke look set to force a by-election for a seat on the Town Council left vacant by the resignation of a Conservative Councillor. A meeting of Full Council on 16th September was told that Cllr David Skeet, who represented the Meadowbank parish ward, had resigned his seat “at the back end of July”. This was accompanied
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Jobs at a workwear manufacturer’s distribution depot in Bradley Stoke are at risk according to a report in the Bristol Evening Post. Uniform supplier Alexandra is said to be in a precarious financial position after payouts to departing directors earlier this year, and downgrading the value of old stock that it has been unable to sell. The report says up
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Bradley Stoke Town Council appears to be struggling to find a replacement for Town Clerk David Chandler (pictured left), who is due to retire in January 2010. The Council began advertising its Town Clerk vacancy in early July, through the website of the Society of Local Council Clerks, and Councillors were told later that month that “interest shown was well
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First Group has announced that the route of the limited stop X73 bus service between Bradley Stoke and Bristol city centre has been extended to Stoke Lodge. The changes come into effect today (Monday 29th September). The service previously started and finished at Woodlands Lane in Bradley Stoke but has now been extended to the Gloucester Road (A38) stop in
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An exhibition has opened in Bradley Stoke Library to show plans of new cycle routes being proposed as part of the Cycling City project in South Gloucestershire. Greater Bristol (the area governed by Bristol City Council and South Gloucestershire Council) was named as England’s first ‘Cycling City’ in 2008 and has received £11.4 million of government funding, matched by an
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Bradley Stoke Town Council’s efforts to get utility companies to provide faster broadband connections in the town have come to nothing according to Town Clerk David Chandler. Back in February, the Council’s Planning Committee instructed the Clerk to write to telecommunications giants BT and Virgin Media demanding a “21st Century service for a 21st Century town”. The move was followed
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South Gloucestershire Council has announced that it has scrapped plans for a bus priority scheme on the A38 Aztec West roundabout, saying that the work is “no longer viable” after First Group made changes to the route of its 73 bus service. The earlier proposals have now been abandoned in favour of a northbound bus lane on the A38 Gloucester
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Specsavers’ new store at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre is set to open on Monday 5th October, according to Centre Manager Scott Lahive. The opticians group, revealed as a new tenant in July, plans to open in mall unit 4 (to the left of the Carphone Warehouse outlet) on Monday 5th October. Shopfitters have been working on the inside of
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