Following the trial of a ‘low noise’ format in 2021, Bradley Stoke’s hugely popular FREE fireworks display reverts to a ‘traditional’ (loud) format for this year’s renewal on Sunday 6th November. After considering feedback from the public regarding the 2021 event, councillors voted 6:4 for a return to a ‘traditional’ format. The agreed budget for this year’s event is £9,300.
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A vending machine offering free sexual health testing kits has been installed in one of the entrance foyers at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre. The device, one of four recently installed in Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset, provides an easy, free, fast and confidential way to test for sexually transmitted infections, including HIV.
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Plans have been submitted for the creation of a large new foodstore at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre which would be created by more than doubling the size of the retail unit currently occupied by Poundstretcher. The centre’s management has declined to comment on rumours that a well-known discount retailer wishes to occupy the unit.
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A number of bus services that run through the Stokes will see timetable and/or route changes from Sunday 9th October. Route changes are being made on the T1 and Y6 services, while timetable changes apply to the 19, 73, T1 and Y6 services. Meanwhile, across the wider Bristol and South Gloucestershire area, a number of services are being withdrawn.
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Staff and children at Happy Days Nursery & Pre-School in Bradley Stoke are celebrating their second successive ‘outstanding’ Ofsted inspection report. Situated within the Almondsbury Business Park, off Woodlands Lane, the setting opened its doors in 2015, receiving an ‘outstanding’ Ofsted judgement at its first inspection in July 2016. This has now been followed with another top rating following an inspection in August.
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Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre has changed hands for the second time in just over six years after being acquired by Supermarket Income REIT plc for £84 million. The centre’s new owner is a FTSE 250 real estate investment trust that aims to provide inflation-protected, long-dated income from grocery property in the UK.
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Cheaper bus fares have come into force on most local services from today (Sunday 25th September) thanks to the introduction of a subsidy package from the West of England Combined Authority (Weca). The changes have seen the price of a First Bus return (2-trip) ticket from Bradley Stoke to Bristol city centre slashed to £3.50, down from £4.30 previously.
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Bradley Stoke in one of three areas in South Gloucestershire that have been chosen to take part in a trial to collect plastic bags and wrapping from homes as part of normal weekly recycling collections. Collections will begin from 17th October, with selected households taking part (approximately 2,000 in total across South Gloucestershire). More homes are set to be added in 2023.
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A boarded-up public house on the A38 Gloucester Road is back on the market after a housing association abandoned tentative plans to build 27 affordable apartments on the site. Bromford conducted a 3-week public consultation on its proposals for the Travellers Rest site back in April as a precursor to submitting a formal planning application to South Gloucestershire Council…
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“What on earth are First doing with the M1 MetroBus service? Yes, I know they have only just taken it over but it was a fully operational and adequately staffed enterprise which they have made an exceptional effort to dismantle in just six days … Time for Weca to step in and allocate it to a competent operator,” writes one Journal reader.
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