The Willow Brook Centre in Bradley Stoke has won the national Shopping Centre SCEPTRE Award for Waste Management. The winners of the 2013 SCEPTRE Awards were announced at a gala dinner on Tuesday 26th June at The Dorchester Hotel in London. The Waste Management category is highly coveted and the Willow Brook Centre was up against some of the largest
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A planning application for the construction of a Tesco ‘Click & Collect’ unit in the car park of Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre has been withdrawn following objections about its proximity to nearby residential properties. The supermarket giant had wanted to build the customer collection ‘pod’ at a site on the northern boundary of the car park, immediately behind
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I regularly walk up the pedestrian footpath parallel to the Tesco filling station and outside the Tesco staff entrance with my young children. The children complain about the smoke that they inhale as they walk past the Tesco employee smokers on the corner, where the delivery lorries pass. There has recently been a lot of press coverage of ‘second hand’
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The Journal is pleased to announce that Leanne Robinson is the lucky winner of our exclusive prize draw to win a year’s free membership at the Anytime Fitness gym in Bradley Stoke. Leanne’s entry was drawn out of the hat by Scott Lahive, manager of the Willow Brook Centre, where the local Anytime Fitness gym is based. The free prize
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[Advertising Feature] There’s still time to enter the Bradley Stoke Journal magazine’s exclusive free prize draw to win a year’s free gym membership at Anytime Fitness, Bradley Stoke. Anytime Fitness is the world’s largest 24-hour gym chain with over 2,000 sites worldwide. There are currently three sites in Bristol, one of them located in the Willow Brook Centre at the
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Jack Lopresti, Member of Parliament for the Filton and Bradley Stoke constituency, has moved his local base to the Willow Brook Centre in Bradley Stoke. Announcing the move, Mr Lopresti said: “I’ve always wanted to have my local base here. It’s at the heart of the Bradley Stoke community and fairly central to the whole constituency. There are excellent public
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Bradley Stoke Town Council has lodged an objection to a plan by Tesco to construct a ‘Click & Collect’ unit in the car park of its Willow Brook Centre store. The company wants to build the customer collection ‘pod’ at a site on the northern boundary of the car park, immediately behind houses in Dewfalls Drive. The ‘Click & Collect’
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Tesco Extra at the Willow Brook Centre in Bradley Stoke is launching its F&F Spring/Summer 2013 range by hosting a charity fashion show on Saturday 13th April. Their full range of stylish and affordable clothes will be modelled by Tesco staff and their families – babies, toddlers, teenagers and adults – during two catwalk shows at 11am and 2pm. The
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The Panasonic store at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre has ceased trading in mysterious circumstances. The consumer electronics shop located near the Town Square entrance to the mall closed on Sunday for what was advertised as a two-day period of “stock taking and refurbishment” but has failed to re-open this week. Investigations by The Journal have revealed that references
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Last Sunday (3rd Feb 2013), we were parked in the Willow Brook Centre car park at Tescos and some unknown vehicle crashed into my car and just drove off. I am left with an ‘at fault’ insurance claim and an excess fee of £300. Matt Taylor, the supervisor at Willow Brook, told me this happens on a regular basis. Other
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