Bradley Stoke author Freddie Hillberg will be celebrating the publication of his new children’s picture book, ‘Brave Cat Millie’ on Thursday 26th October. Aimed at children aged 4 to 7, the new hard-back book is, according to its publisher Carraway, an endearing, gentle and touching story accompanied by delicate and beautifully drawn illustrations that will be popular with younger readers and also with parents and grandparents.
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Bradley Stoke Town Council has put out a call for scarecrow builders ahead of the 2023 renewal of the town’s annual charity scarecrow trail. The theme for 2023 is “international” and the trail will run over the school half-term holiday, from 21st to 29th October. Entries are invited from individuals, families, community organisations and businesses.
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Bradley Stoke is set to lose more than 200 trees that currently line roads, footpaths and open spaces in the town as part of South Glos Council’s response to the spread of ash dieback disease. Notices advising of imminent ‘tree removal’ have appeared at numerous locations, including Braydon Avenue (Bradley Stoke side), Bradley Stoke Way, Great Meadow Road and The Worthys.
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A public consultation has been launched to gather local views on a proposal to stage a weekly 5km parkrun event in the Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve. The consultation is being run by Bradley Stoke Town Council, some of whose members have voiced concerns about the use of the nature reserve for an event that could attract hundreds of runners every Saturday morning.
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A popular car boot sale that takes place near Bradley Stoke will reopen for the 2023 season this coming Sunday (21st May), organisers have told the Journal. The weekly Trench Lane Boot Sale usually runs until the end of October. Fields at the site have been mown this week in preparation for Sunday’s reopening.
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Revised proposals for a weekly parkrun in Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve are to be discussed at the town council’s Annual Meeting on Wednesday (17th May). The parkrun volunteer group has submitted its formal application to South Glos Council, albeit with an updated run route compared to the one that was presented to town councillors in March.
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Housebuilder Crest Nicholson has made a donation to purchase much-needed tea urns and mugs for Bradley Stoke Town Council’s Community Warm Spaces initiative. The gifted items have been donated on behalf of the communities at two of Crest Nicholson’s local developments, Brooklands Park and Highbrook View, both of which are in the adjoining parish of Stoke Gifford.
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A new application to stage a weekly 5km parkrun on Saturday mornings in Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve looks set to be formally submitted to the landowner, South Gloucestershire Council, in the coming days. The news comes seven years after a similar application was made following the controversial demise of the Little Stoke parkrun…
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A provider of ultrafast broadband services has begun building out a new fibre optic network in Bradley Stoke that offers connection speeds up to 18 times faster than can typically be achieved over traditional copper telephone cables. The Truespeed network will compete with existing ‘full fibre’ offerings from the likes of BT, EE, Plusnet, TalkTalk and Sky.
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Work has started on one of the last remaining plots of building land in Bradley Stoke where 21 affordable homes are to be built by housing association LiveWest. The scheme comprises a terrace of nine family homes, a block of eleven ‘supported living’ apartments and a separate wheelchair-accessible bungalow. Completion is scheduled for April 2024,
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