Residents of Bradley Stoke are to have the chance to find out about a new Children’s Centre that will open soon in the town. The new Sure Start Children’s Centre at Bowsland Green Primary School will offer a wide range of support services to families with children under five. South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) is staging a meeting at the school
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South Gloucestershire Council has announced a public consultation on proposals to introduce lower speed limits of 30/40mph on a number of rural roads close to Bradley Stoke. A speed limit of 40mph is proposed for Trench Lane, lowered to 30mph for the bend near the Woodlands Lane Roundabout. The Old Gloucester Road will also have a 40mph limit, between the
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South Gloucestershire Council has issued a series of statutory notices relating to the construction of a new bus lane of the A38 Gloucester Road between Little Stoke and the Aztec West Roundabout. The consultation period runs until Thursday 4th February. Read more: South Gloucestershire Council Consultation Diary
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A scheme to add a bus lane on the northbound carriageway of the A38 between Little Stoke and the Aztec West Roundabout has been amended after a public consultation. The scheme, first announced by South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) in September, replaced an earlier proposal for a more comprehensive system of new bus and general traffic lanes on roads leading off
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Local Liberal Democrat Councillor Jon Williams has slammed the Conservatives for, he says, wrongly claiming credit over the approval of a new pedestrian crossing on Brook Way. The row follows a campaign by parents of children at Wheatfield Primary School, who said they found it dangerous getting to the school from Saxon Way and other roads on the west side
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Staff from South Gloucestershire Council will be manning an exhibition of proposals for a bus rapid transit system in Bradley Stoke this weekend. The exhibition, part of the public consultation on the “North Fringe to Hengrove Packge”, takes place tomorrow (Saturday 5th December) between 9am and 12 noon at Bradley Stoke Library. Information published on the website of the West
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South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) has opened a public consultation on plans for a major new road transport scheme that will link Bradley Stoke with Bristol city centre. The scheme, known as the North Fringe to Hengrove Package, includes provision of bus rapid transit services, the construction of a new link road between Stoke Gifford and the A4174 Avon Ring Road
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A Bradley Stoke company has denied any connection with misleading slimming trial offers being offered over the internet. South Gloucestershire Council has received over 250 complaints, some from as far away as Australia and Canada, concerning two companies that use an Arden Close address as the location of their registered office. The complaints centre around signing-up with internet businesses using
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St Mary’s RC Primary School in Bradley Stoke is one of six schools in South Gloucestershire to have been awarded grants totalling nearly £37,000 to encourage safer, greener routes to school. The money will be used to encourage safer walking to school, introduce road markings to improve safety near school buildings, erect bike storage and teach pupils about sustainable transport
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Bradley Stoke’s new Sure Start family support centre is scheduled to open “early next year”, according to a report in the Bristol Evening Post. South Gloucestershire Council announced back in December 2008 that the centre would be set up at Bowsland Green Primary School. The new facility will be achieved through refurbishment of existing accommodation and the building of an
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