Dear Editor, Tesco Willow Brook Centre has major designed-in parking problems, resulting in discord between Tesco and its customers as detailed in previous posts and countless pub, office and back fence whinging sessions. 1. The general car park design is terrible (there is never a trolley shed anywhere near your car and there is a garden right across where you
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A hair and beauty salon looks set to be the next business to open its doors at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre after new signage appeared over the last remaining unit in the centre’s shopping mall. A company trading under the name ‘Excellence Spa‘ will occupy mall unit 2, between Panasonic and Carphone Warehouse. New signage appeared above the unit
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Tesco Extra in Bradley Stoke has banned people from bringing balloons into the store over fears that a member of staff could suffer an allergic reaction, reports the Bristol Evening Post. A mother and her young son were “accosted” by a security guard, who told them they couldn’t come into the supermarket carrying a balloon because “someone could have an
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The Brantano shoe store at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre is running a ‘New for Old’ money-saving promotion that promises to also help a baby charity and people in the third world. Anyone taking an old pair of shoes (in any condition) into the store before Sunday 10th April will be given a £10-off voucher that can be used when
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After some seven years of being away from Bradley Stoke, my wife and I returned recently and stopped for lunch at The Three Brooks public house. Imagine our shock as we approached the pub to be greeted by this vast grey box dominating the area. In fact we first thought that the pub had been demolished to make way for
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The Willow Brook Centre has announced the opening of a new car wash service to be launched on Friday 25th March 2011. Waves Car Wash Limited provides hand car wash and valeting services, offering “a premium service at reasonable rates”. Shoppers will be offered a range of options spanning a basic outside-only wash to a full valeting service, with prices
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Officials at South Gloucestershire Council have recommended that a planning application to turn a garage in a corner of the Willow Brook Centre car park into a Domino’s pizza outlet should be refused. Members of the Council’s Development Control (West) Committee, who inspected the proposed site two weeks ago, will this afternoon decide the fate of the application at a
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The Reflections hairdressing salon at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre has announced that it is start opening on Sundays. Writing on the salon’s webpage, Manager Hannah Fox says: “I am excited to announce that, due to client demand, from 20th February we will be opening on Sundays! The salon will be open between 10am to 4pm and is already taking
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South Gloucestershire planners are to visit to the proposed site of a new Domino’s Pizza store this Friday (4th February) at 10:20am following the submission of a planning application to convert a garage in a corner of the car park at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre. The application was referred to South Gloucestershire Council’s Development Control (West) Sites Inspection Sub-Committee
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The Willow Brook Centre (WBC) has announced that Bradley Stoke’s new Boots store will open on Wednesday 9th February. The store will stock a wide range of health and beauty products and provide a full prescription dispensing service through its ‘Midnight Pharmacy’, which will remain open until midnight Monday to Saturday and 4pm on Sunday. A promotional leaflet [PDF, 1.2MB],
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