The Journal has learned that a Special Meeting of Bradley Stoke Town Council is to be held next Tuesday, 30th September, at 6pm. The meeting, which will be conducted in closed session on the grounds of “commercial sensitivity”, is said to have a single topic on the agenda: “To consider the Town Centre Development”. Mayor Robert Jones told us: “I
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More Willow Brook jobs up for grabs
With the opening of Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre now less than three weeks away, more job vacancies have been advertised by tenants of the new development. 1st Equity, who will be opening an agency for the Nationwide Building Society, is looking for a part-time Customer Sales Adviser. The firm is part of 1st Group UK, a financial services company
Continue readingShoe Zone slips into town
Budget footwear retailer Shoe Zone is the latest company to reveal it will be opening a store in the Willow Brook Centre, Bradley Stoke’s new town centre development. Although there has been no official statement by the centre management, the Shoe Zone store was today added to the store guide shown on the official Willow Brook Centre website, where the
Continue readingWillow Brook neighbours call meeting to discuss anti-social behaviour on pedestrian access routes
Residents along pedestrian access routes into Bradley Stoke’s soon-to-open Willow Brook Centre have called a meeting to discuss the increased amount of anti-social behaviour that has been experienced since new access points into the site were opened earlier in the year. The move follows an article that appeared on 27th August in the Bristol Evening Post, in which a resident
Continue readingNew Town Centre: latest jobs news
With the opening of the Willow Brook Centre only weeks away, more of the companies that are opening stores in Bradley Stoke’s new town centre have been advertising for staff. Greggs the bakers, who were confirmed as tenants only this week, are advertising for part-time and weekend staff to work in their new store. The rate of pay offered is
Continue readingGreggs the bakers to open in Town Square
Greggs the bakers has joined the line up of stores opening at the Willow Brook Centre, Bradley Stoke’s new town centre development. Centre manager Scott Lahive has confirmed rumours that have been circulating since early August, when the Greggs name appeared on a prototype of the official Willow Brook Centre website. More recently, an advert for jobs at a “Greggs
Continue readingTown centre offices advertised
Offices in The Willow Brook Centre, Bradley Stoke’s new town centre development, are being marketed by property group Alder King. On offer are two offices on the first floor of the new shopping mall and a further two on the first floor of the new Town Square. The units range in size from 234m2 to 494m2 and are available on
Continue readingWillow Brook Centre to open on Monday 13th October
The first phase of Bradley Stoke’s new Willow Brook Centre will open on Monday 13th October. The first day of trading will see the giant new Tesco Extra store open to customers, along with five other retail outlets in the attached shopping mall and Town Square. The town’s existing main Tesco store, situated alongside the new development, will cease trading
Continue readingInside the Willow Brook Centre – a guided tour
The Willow Brook Centre, Bradley Stoke’s new £80 million shopping centre, is now just weeks away from opening its doors to the general public. Construction of the complex, which includes a Tesco Extra store, a shopping mall and further retail outlets around a new Town Square, has progressed rapidly over the Summer months and the centre could be ready to
Continue readingTesco Extra recruitment centre opens on-site in Bradley Stoke
A recruitment centre for jobs at Bradley Stoke’s new Tesco Extra store has opened for business in the car park of the new development in Savages Wood Road. The centre, formed of two Portakabin-style units, is situated just off the main public access road that leads to the existing Tesco store on the site, in the new section of car
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