Tesco has submitted a planning application which would see the number of ground floor units in the new shopping mall at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre increased from ten to fifteen. The proposed changes are to be achieved by sub-division and reconfiguration of the layout proposed in the original plans. The company claims that the amendments will “offer greater opportunities
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Tesco has begun advertising part-time positions available at its soon-to-open Tesco Extra store in Bradley Stoke. A flyer being distributed at the existing store lists vacancies in the following categories: Service Grocery Replenishment Fresh Food Replenishment Night and Twilight Replenishment Non Food The advert states that part-time positions covering morning, afternoon, evening and night shifts are available. Potential applicants should
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One of the UK’s largest pension funds has acquired a 50% share in the Willow Brook Centre, Bradley Stoke’s new town centre currently under construction at Savages Wood Road. Supermarket group Tesco has announced that it has agreed an £80 million joint venture with the massive BP Pension Fund, whose assets were recently valued at £14.7 billion. The fund, which
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The campaign to find staff for Bradley Stoke’s new Tesco Extra store has stepped up a gear with the opening of a dedicated recruitment centre on the Aztec West Business Park. According to information on the Tesco Careers website, the Bradley Stoke Tesco Recruitment Centre in the Rombourne Business Centre, 130 Aztec West [map] is now open and is scheduled
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A planning application for an astonishing 856 illuminated and non-illuminated signs in Bradley Stoke’s new town centre has been submitted to South Gloucestershire Council by Tesco Stores Ltd. The schedule lists items ranging from large signage gantries to anti-ram bollards and “no smoking” signs. Notable items are the signs for vehicle set down points (along the northern side of the
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The application deadline for management positions at the Tesco Extra store currently under construction in Bradley Stoke’s new town centre has been extended to 11th July 2008. When originally advertised, the closing date was listed as 19th June. This was later extended to 30th June, before being changed once more to the current deadline. It is not known if the
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The judging panel tasked with selecting a name for Bradley Stoke’s new town centre development has chosen “Willow Brook” as the best suggestion submitted in a public competition jointly organised by Bradley Stoke Town Council and Tesco. The competition was held after a remarkable U-turn by Tesco, which had previously insisted on using the name “The Brooks Centre“, despite having
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The steel framework for the first block of shop/restaurant/office units that will surround the town square in Bradley Stoke’s new town centre has been erected just weeks after The Journal reported that the first concrete had been poured for the foundations. The block (pictured above and shown with a red outline in the plan below) has a distinctive tower at
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Bradley Stoke is to gain its first dental practice, located on the upper floor of the town’s new shopping mall currently under construction in the new town centre development at Savages Wood Road. Details of the proposed practice first came to light in the agenda for the Board Meeting of the South Gloucestershire Primary Care Trust (PCT) on 30th April
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Entries for the town centre naming competition, organised by Bradley Stoke Town Council and Tesco, must be received by 5pm on Friday (6th June). Judging is set to take place on Monday (9th June). The winner will receive a £50 Tesco shopping voucher, with an entry level personal computer being presented to their choice of local school or nominated registered
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