The 2012 Bradley Stoke Community Festival gets underway at 9:30am today (Friday 1st) with children’s entertainment at the Jubilee Centre in Savages Wood Road. Traditionally held a week later, the festival has been moved, for this year only, to coincide with HM The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Today’s entertainment will be provided by the popular Professor Panic’s Circus and children will
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Two Bradley Stoke Councillors yesterday defected to the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in what appears to be a consequence of some nasty in-fighting within the local Conservative Party. Cllr Ben Walker, a former Bradley Stoke Mayor and District Councillor for the Bradley Stoke North ward, and Cllr Ed Rose, elected to the Town Council in May 2011, were welcomed into
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History was made in Bradley Stoke last night (Wednesday 16th May) at the Town Council’s AGM when Cllr Charlotte Walker (Con, Lakeside) was elected as Town Mayor for the coming year and so become the youngest female Mayor in the country. Cllr Walker, who has lived in Bradley Stoke since she was 11, became the town’s youngest ever Councillor last
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Residents of Bradley Stoke are invited to have their say at the Annual Town Meeting this Wednesday evening (9th May) at the Jubilee Centre, Savages Wood Road (7:30pm start). The meeting will receive summary reports from the Chair of Council (Cllr Ben Walker), the Chair of the Finance Committee (Cllr Roger Avenin), the Chair of the Planning & Environment Committee
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A youth centre to which young people from Bradley Stoke were directed after the Brook Way youth club was closed down last year is facing closure from April 2013 as part of cost-cutting plans proposed by South Gloucestershire Council (SGC). Interim measures put in place following Bradley Stoke Town Council’s decision to terminate its youth provision contract with Southern Brooks
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A familiar sight on the highways and byways of Bradley Stoke will be seen for the last time today when Dave Dace, the Town Council’s first-ever litter picker, works his final day in the job. The position of Mobile Cleansing Operative (MCO), to give the job its official title, was launched with great fanfare in April 2009 after the Town
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Bradley Stoke Town Council’s controversial project to build itself a new £400k office is now well under way after excavators moved onto the site at the Jubilee Centre last month. The new office, once completed, will replace premises that the Council currently rents at The Courtyard, within the Almondsbury Business Park in the north of the town. The go-ahead for
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Bradley Stoke Town Council has voted to freeze the precept charge on residents’ council tax bills for the second successive year. The decision, agreed at last Wednesday’s Full Council meeting, sees the charge on a Band D property remain at £113.50 for 2012/13. Commenting on the freeze, Cllr Roger Avenin (Con, Baileys Court), Chair of the Finance Committee, said: “We
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Spending on youth provision by Bradley Stoke Town Council (BSTC) looks set to be slashed by 39% from April if draft budget plans are approved at a meeting next week. The news comes as young people await the outcome of a two month consultation into ‘youth needs’ in the town that was run by South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) during November
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Bradley Stoke Town Council has been told by Royal Mail that it has no plans to provide a larger post office in the town. The news, revealed during public questions at a recent Council committee meeting, will come as a disappointment to the vast majority of the 273 people who responded to a recent Council consultation to assess demand for
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