Bradley Stoke Town Council is inviting residents to the Annual Town Meeting, to be held this evening (Wednesday 13th May) at the Jubilee Centre, Savages Wood Road (7:30pm start). The meeting will receive summary reports from the Chair of Council, Cllr Robert Jones, and the Chairs of the Finance & Leisure Committee (Cllr Mark Forsyth) and Planning & Amenities Committee
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Bradley Stoke Town Council is holding a ‘Clean Sweep’ litter picking day between 2:30pm and 6:30pm this Thursday (30th April). Residents are encouraged to “join in the fun” by forming litter picking groups for their local streets or helping out at organised clear ups around the Council’s activity centres at Brook Way, Baileys Court and the Jubilee Centre. South Gloucestershire
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A new litter picker, recruited by Bradley Stoke Town Council (BSTC), was officially welcomed to his role by Mayor Robert Jones and other Councillors at a photo call on Thursday morning at the Brook Way Activity Centre. Dave Dace, whose official job title is ‘Mobile Cleansing Operative’ (MCO), started work this week and has already begun to make an impression
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Bradley Stoke Town Council has approved an application by Papas Pizzas to trade from the car park of Baileys Court Activity Centre [map] on Thursday and Friday nights. The application was unanimously approved at a Planning Environment & Ameneties Committee meeting on 25th February. Proprietor Santiago Pablo must now obtain a trading licence from South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) and an
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Minutes recently published on the website of Bradley Stoke Town Council reveal that Cllr Jon Williams (Lib Dem) has made a formal apology for using “inappropriate language” at a meeting of the Full Council on 3rd December last year (2008). The remarks in question were made after fellow Councillors had voted to switch funding for youth club provision in the
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Bradley Stoke Town Council (BSTC) has received a petition from a group of electors calling on it to provide allotments for local residents, as required by the Small Holdings and Allotments Act 1908. The petition was received at last month’s Full Council meeting and has been backed by local LibDem MP Steve Webb, who has written to the Council in support of the campaigners. Under
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Mobile takeaway vans could soon be trading again in the car park of the Baileys Court Activity Centre in Bradley Stoke. Prior to the recent redevelopment of the site, The Chinese Wok van was a regular visitor, but construction activity meant the business had to move elsewhere and the van did not return on completion of the work. It is now
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Liberal Democrat Jon Williams was last night celebrating his return to Bradley Stoke Town Council after a narrow victory in the Meadowbank parish ward by-election. Following a recount requested by the Conservative agent, the margin of victory was confirmed at just nine votes from the 458 cast. Mr Williams was a member of the Town Council from 1992 to 2007,
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Bradley Stoke Conservatives have made an embarrassing public retraction of a statement made in a recent election campaign leaflet. The apology, made in a leaflet delivered to homes in the Meadowbank parish ward yesterday evening, concerns an accusation that Liberal Democrat candidate Jon Williams had “attempted to oppose” plans for a sixth form at Bradley Stoke Community School. Mr Williams
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Bradley Stoke Town Council has revealed plans to relocate its office to the shopping mall of the town’s new Willow Brook Centre. The announcement was made at this evening’s meeting of the Safer & Stronger Community Group at Bradley Stoke Community School following a Special Meeting of the Council earlier in the day. Mayor Robert Jones reported that the Council
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