Work has started on the construction of two new fast food & drink restaurants, both with drive-through facilities, at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre. The foundation pads for the McDonald’s building are already in place. The work is expected to take six months to complete, indicating an anticipated opening date of August.
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A popular mobile butcher’s van and other market traders are expected to return to the town square at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre in the coming days following a near-six-month break caused by a licensing issue. The hiatus came after a routine inspection by the local authority found that the site’s block street trading consent had expired in 2017.
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Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre has confirmed that work is about to start on the construction of two controversial fast food & drink restaurants, both with drive-through facilities, that were granted planning permission on appeal in January 2020. If all goes to plan, the McDonald’s and Starbucks units could be open by August.
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A well-known firm of mobile butchers is to start trading at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre from tomorrow (Wednesday 12th May 2021). A truck from Mark’s Mobile Butchers will trade from a location on the edge of the town square, near the Subway store, on five days each week.
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Safe shopping guidelines, increased hygiene practices and regular communication with customers are just some of the measures that form part of the reopening plan at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre. As restrictions are relaxed, the centre has released plans of how Willow Brook will operate as more stores begin to reopen.
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One Below, a new UK discount shopping brand from the original founders of Poundworld, is to open a store in Bradley Stoke later this month, creating 20 local retail jobs. The new store is scheduled to open in the former Poundworld unit at the Willow Brook Centre on Friday 27th September, at 10am. The independent chain claims to be the
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Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) opened its 35th and newest shop in the Willow Brook Centre, Bradley Stoke on Friday 16th August. The new outlet, located in the mall unit previously occupied by former Carphone Warehouse, offers a range of goods, including women’s, men’s and children’s clothing and accessories, as well as children’s toys and games and homewares. Every item
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Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) will be opening the charity’s newest shop in Bradley Stoke at 10.30am on Friday 16th August. The new outlet, located in the former Carphone Warehouse unit at the Willow Brook Centre, will offer a range of goods, including women’s, men’s and children’s clothing and accessories, as well as children’s toys and games and homewares. Every
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Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre has removed a series of much-criticised full-width speed bumps from its private access road and replaced them with softer ‘island-style’ speed bumps. The move came less than three months after the 50mm-high full-width bumps, widely condemned as being “overly harsh”, were fitted in mid-March. The U-turn leaves the traffic calming measures on the access
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The replacement of a number of cushion-type speed bumps on the access road of the Willow Brook shopping centre with new, more severe, full-width bumps sparked extensive debate on the Journal’s Facebook page during March. The reader who started the discussion remarked on the “large traffic queue” that had formed because of drivers slowing to a crawl as they passed
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