Volunteers from the Bradley Stoke community joined the Town Council’s litter picker Dave Dace in an end of summer ‘clean up’ last Saturday. Mr Dace, whose cumbersome official title is ‘Mobile Cleansing Operative’ (MCO), was joined by a number of high profile volunteers including Mayor Mark Forsyth, Town Clerk David Chandler and the Conservative Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Filton and
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Liberal Democrats in Bradley Stoke look set to force a by-election for a seat on the Town Council left vacant by the resignation of a Conservative Councillor. A meeting of Full Council on 16th September was told that Cllr David Skeet, who represented the Meadowbank parish ward, had resigned his seat “at the back end of July”. This was accompanied
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Bradley Stoke Town Council appears to be struggling to find a replacement for Town Clerk David Chandler (pictured left), who is due to retire in January 2010. The Council began advertising its Town Clerk vacancy in early July, through the website of the Society of Local Council Clerks, and Councillors were told later that month that “interest shown was well
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A meeting of Bradley Stoke Town Council (BSTC) on Wednesday (16th September) this week is to be told that one of the seats on the Town Council has become vacant. A spokesperson for BSTC declined to name the Councillor involved and said that no further details would be revealed until the vacancy was formally announced on Wednesday evening. The vacancy,
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The Bristol Evening Post reports today that Bradley Stoke Town Councillor Jon Williams (Lib Dem) has been found guilty of misconduct by the Standards Committee of South Gloucestershire Council (SGC). The ruling follows an incident at a meeting of the Town Council on 3rd December 2008, in which Cllr Williams called his fellow (predominantly Conservative) Councillors “a bunch of w*****s”
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An ice cream vendor’s application to be allowed to trade at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre has failed to impress Town Councillors. G & J Ices has applied for street trading consent to operate from a pitch alongside the town’s new shopping centre. When the application came before the July meeting of Bradley Stoke Town Council’s Planning Committee, Councillors voted
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The Standards Committee of South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) meets today to consider a complaint made against Bradley Stoke Town Councillor Jon Williams (Liberal Democrat). The investigation is understood to relate to an incident that occurred at a meeting of the Town Council on 3rd December 2008. That meeting saw Councillors decide to switch funding for youth work in the town
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Bradley Stoke Town Council has begun advertising for a new Town Clerk to replace the present incumbent, David Chandler, who retires in January 2010. Mr Chandler has been the Clerk since the Council was formed in 1992. At that time, Bradley Stoke had only a few thousand residents and he ran operations from the front room of his home. An
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Mark Forsyth (Conservative, pictured left) was appointed Chair of Council and Mayor of Bradley Stoke at last night’s Annual General Meeting of Bradley Stoke Town Council. Cllr Forsyth was elected to the Town Council at the May 2007 election and represents the Primrose Bridge parish ward. At the time of his election, he lived in Saxon Way, but has since
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Bradley Stoke looks likely to have a new Mayor later this week after the current incumbent, Cllr Robert Jones (Conservative), indicated that he plans to step down at the Town Council’s Annual General Meeting (AGM). Cllr Jones, attending one of his last official duties at the start of a sponsored walk in aid of the NACC on Sunday afternoon, told
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