Pedestrians and bus users look set for months of disruption at Bradley Stoke’s new town centre development when a new access road into the site opens on Monday (14th April 2008). In a change from earlier plans, buses will no longer be allowed to enter the town centre site during the next phase of construction work. From Monday, a temporary
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Signs on display today (Saturday) indicate that the new access road into Bradley Stoke’s under-construction town centre will open this coming Monday (14th April 2008). Detailed plans on show at the existing Tesco store show that the existing access road, which runs past the old filling station, is to be closed on 6pm Sunday. As reported earlier in The Journal,
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Bradley Stoke’s new town centre, currently under construction around the existing Tesco store in Savages Wood Road, is being marketed to potential tenants as “The Brooks Centre, Bradley Stoke”. The “Brooks” label, pertaining to the three brooks that run through the town, was thought until now to be a provisional name for the development, used only within design and planning
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Signs on display today (Saturday) indicate that the new Tesco filling station in Bradley Stoke’s new town centre development will open on schedule this coming Monday, 7th April 2008 – confirming an earlier report in The Journal. With two days to go before the opening, there seems to be plenty of last-minute finishing-off work to do, but management are evidently
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Plans for Bradley Stoke’s new town centre approved in October 2007 included a ‘Council Drop-in Centre’ to be located on the ground floor of one of the ‘town centre units’ positioned around the new town square. The intention for Bradley Stoke Town Council to have a presence in the new town centre is clear from various meeting minutes on the
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The new Tesco filling station in Bradley Stoke’s new town centre development is set to open on Monday 7th April, according to staff at the existing station a few yards down the road. As the photo above shows, there is still much work to do on the new station, with the fuel pumps yet to be fitted and access roads
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The access road into Bradley Stoke’s new town centre is soon to be re-routed to make space for the development of the new town square (with associated shops and offices) and a block of five non-food retail units. The red line on the map above shows how the new access road will branch off to the left of the existing
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— Click a thumbnail image to view a larger version — An imposing 3.1 metre (10ft) high wooden fence on two sides of the site of Bradley Stoke’s new town centre is now complete. The structure begins on the access road opposite the new filling station and initially follows the line of a public footpath, skirting first the vacant site
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The footprint of the new Tesco store in Bradley Stoke has become more visible in the last few days, with erection of the final pillars on the south side of the building. The outline of the store can now be seen to stretch from the site boundary on Bradley Stoke Way to within a few metres of the new filling
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The new Tesco store at Bradley Stoke’s town centre development is currently scheduled to open in “late autumn” according to a contact at Tesco’s public relations consultants. This is somewhat later than the date of October 2008 currently being advertised in the existing Tesco store, but is still on target for a pre-Christmas opening. Our new Town Centre Countdown panel
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