The Journal has learned that local charity Southern Brooks Community Partnership (SBCP) has been successful in its bid to retain the contract for youth work provision in Bradley Stoke. Youth work in the town was thrown into confusion late last year when Bradley Stoke Town Council decided to terminate its direct relationship with SBCP and instead work “in partnership with
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South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) has announced that a £168 million rapid transport scheme that will link Bradley Stoke and Bristol city centre has been agreed “in principle” by the government. Information about the scheme, known officially as the North Fringe to Hengrove Package, is hard to come by, but SGC says: This is a major project to provide a rapid
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Bradley Stoke’s new £160,000 play park on Jubilee Green, Savages Wood Road, is to be officially opened this Friday (24th July). The park has been designed for people of all ages to enjoy and will incorporate slides, a nest swing, rowing and cycling machines, a climbing frame, a sand pit and (eventually) a youth space and shelter. The project was
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A closed meeting of Bradley Stoke Town Council’s Youth Sub-Committee will tonight confirm whether or not toddler groups and other daytime users will be allowed to continue to use Brook Way Activity Centre after the town’s youth clubs relocate to the centre in July. A statement that day-time users would have to quit, made by Town Clerk David Chandler at
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South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) is inviting public comment on a proposed scheme to add a bus lane to the southbound carriageway of Great Stoke Way, near the Sainsbury’s superstore. The proposed work would be carried out as part of the Greater Bristol Bus Network project, a £70 million scheme to improve bus services on ten key routes throughout the region.
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Property owners in a wealthy neighbourhood of Bradley Stoke have been accused of an illegal land grab by South Gloucestershire Council (SGC). The owners of a number of executive properties in Champs Sur Marne are understood to have extended their rear gardens beyond the original boundary into a strip of woodland that separates them from the grounds of Bradley Stoke
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Wednesday’s meeting of Bradley Stoke Town Council’s (BSTC’s) Finance & Leisure Committee was told that the cost of the new Jubilee Green play park is likely to be £50k more than had been originally estimated. The March meeting of Full Council had been told that tenders for the project would be opened on 3rd April and that work should start
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Familiar green bus shelters on the 73 bus route through Bradley Stoke are being replaced with shiny silver ones funded by the Greater Bristol Bus Network (GBBN). The old green shelters, owned and maintained by Bradley Stoke Town Council (BSTC), are beginning to show their age and the Council has sruggled to keep them free of graffiti. Lib Dem Councillor Jon
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Businesses at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre have been criticised by a local resident for their lack of action in addressing an alleged litter problem on the footpaths surrounding the shopping development. Holly Mieville-Hawkins (pictured with husband Luke Palmer), who lives in Dewfalls Drive, has delivered a protest letter to a number of stores at the centre. In the letter,
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Work aimed at reducing the number of accidents at a Bradley Stoke mini-roundabout has begun this week. The roundabout at the junction of Brook Way and Braydon Avenue has seen four personal injury accidents within the space of three years (2005 – 2007), according to South Gloucestershire Council. The Council says it is implementing the following changes at the junction:
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