A meeting of the Southern Brooks Area Forum this evening (Tuesday 2nd March) will allocate funding of £29,220 to a selection of projects proposed by local voluntary organisations under the Small Grant Scheme. A total of 27 applications have been received, from organisations which include: Four Towns Play Association (£3,000 for equipment, staff training and publicity), Three Brooks Nature Conservation
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Letters detailing offers of primary and secondary school places for admission in September 2010 are being posted today (using 2nd class mail) by South Gloucestershire Council. Parents/carers who applied online will be able to view the results on the Internet from “late afternoon” today, provided they can remember their username and password (chosen at the time of application). Popular schools
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South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) has agreed a 2.5% rise in council tax for 2010/2011. The increase, agreed at last Wednesday’s Full Council meeting, is well below the government’s favoured CPI (Consumer Prices Index) measure of inflation, which registered 3.5% in January. It is however higher than the expected average Council Tax increase for all English authorities, which has been estimated
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South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) has opened a public consultation on plans for a number of ‘raised table’ cycle crossings within Bradley Stoke. The proposed crossings are part of Cycling City Route 3, which will link Parkway Station to Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre. The Statement of Reasons document published by the Council explains: These crossing points consist of a raised table
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Head to Bradley Stoke Library and get to grips with the latest technology – the digital audioplayer. The Playaway audioplayer is a pre-loaded, ready-to-listen-to device similar to an MP3 player which stores all your favourite fiction and is a great way to catch up on your reading while travelling to work. They can also be plugged into car MP3 systems
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Bradley Stoke’s Sure Start Children’s Centre begins operations today (Tuesday 2nd) with a ‘stay and play’ session for pre-school children and their carers. The session, running from 1:15pm to 3:15pm, will be repeated twice-weekly – on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The Sure Start Centre is located within Bowsland Green Primary School, Ellicks Close (off Bowsland Way). More information: Sure Start Children’s
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South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) has opened a public consultation on plans to change the Traffic Regulation Order governing parking restrictions in Pear Tree Road. The move is associated with the introduction of Civil Parking Enforcement, which moved the responsibility for enforcing parking regulations from the police to local authorities. Council officers say that enforcing parking restrictions is difficult if the
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South Gloucestershire Council has begun work to create a new bus lane on a major commuter route between Bradley Stoke and Bristol city centre. A new bus lane is being added to the southbound carriageway of Great Stoke Way, on the approach to the Abbey Wood roundabout. The Council says the work should be finished by September and will be
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South Gloucestershire Council has announced the dates and locations for this February half term’s Holiday Cycling Courses, which are being offered for free to children of all ages. These courses are the ideal solution to give children a cycling confidence boost and get them out in the fresh air during half term without having to worry about the cost. There
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Refuse and recycling collections in Bradley Stoke are running a whole week behind schedule as a result of the recent wintry weather. South Gloucestershire Council says it has “temporarily suspended green bin collections to allow crews to concentrate on the black bin waste”. The combined effect of the Christmas holiday and recent bad weather means that black bins that would
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