The path around the north side of the lake in Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve has been closed for seven weeks, starting Monday 7th March, for surfacing works. The footpath improvement is part of a £250,000 lake desilting and improvement scheme, the main body of which was carried out in late 2021.
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The path around the north side of the lake in Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve is set to be closed for seven weeks from Monday (7th March 2022), for surfacing works. The work forms part of a £250,000 lake desilting and improvement scheme, the main part of which was carried out in November and December last year.
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Legally enforceable waiting restrictions have still not been implemented outside two Bradley Stoke primary schools despite it being almost 9 months since the associated legal orders were approved. South Gloucestershire Council has blamed the delay on the coronavirus pandemic and the weather.
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Members of Bradley Stoke Rotary Club have planted thousands of tiny crocus bulbs in a roadside verge with the aim of creating an annual floral display to celebrate the success of a worldwide programme to eradicate polio. The planting follows an earlier one alongside Baileys Court Road, which flowered for the first time in spring 2021.
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Staff, parents and children at a Bradley Stoke after-school and holiday club are celebrating a recent positive Ofsted inspection report. Bradley Stoke Wise Owls Club, based at Baileys Court Activity Centre, has been rewarded with the highest rating now possible from Ofsted for this type of setting: ‘Met’.
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The long-awaited project to desilt the lake in Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve finally got under way on Monday 1st November when South Gloucestershire Council’s specialist contractor Land & Water Services Ltd moved onto the site. The work is expected to take 6 weeks to complete, i.e. until mid-December.
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Supermarket chain Tesco has begun rolling out soft plastic recycling points to all its UK stores following a successful trial that began in March 2021 and included the Extra store in Bradley Stoke. The types of item collected are listed as: Any plastic bag; Crisp packets; Food & pet pouches; Plastic wrappers; Any plastic film.
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“We found broken glass bottles used for Molotov-looking cocktails smashed over the play area, fireworks casings and rocket boxes, food and energy drinks litter strewn all over the playground. The bin by the undercover seating area had been ripped out and upended, with the concrete base smashed.”
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The annual South Gloucestershire Council Chair’s Community Awards recognise and celebrate the valuable contribution that local, unpaid volunteers and community groups make to life in South Gloucestershire. You have until 19th November to nominate your local ‘community heroes’ for the 2021-22 awards.
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South Gloucestershire Council has announced the imminent start of work to desilt the lake in Bradley Stoke’s popular Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve for the first time in 16 years. It is expected that footpath and cycle way closures will be in effect for a period of up to 21 days starting 1st November 2021.
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