I have just noticed a large number of parking restriction signs have just gone up in the main car park of the Willow Brook Centre. Looks like all the whole back section of the car park (what appears to be at least one third of the whole Willow Brook car parking area) is now reserved for only “staff and visitors
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The Willow Brook Centre in Bradley Stoke has been nominated for either a gold, silver or bronze Green Apple Environment Award in the national campaign to find Britain’s greenest companies, councils and communities. It competed against more than 500 other nominations in the Green Apple Awards, and will be presented with its trophy and certificate at a glittering presentation ceremony
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In response to the deluge of negative comment that greeted last week’s announcement that another mobile phone outlet (Phones 4u) is to open at the Willow Brook shopping centre in Bradley Stoke, The Journal has today launched a reader poll to find out the types of stores residents feel are missing from our town centre. An informal discussion on our
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Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre has announced three new tenants that will be opening this autumn. Phones 4u, one of the UK’s largest independent mobile phone retailers on both the high street and online, is to open in the 2,107 sq ft mall unit previously occupied by Panasonic, while two office units are being taken by Aspirations Financial Advice Ltd and
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The Willow Brook Centre in Bradley Stoke has won the national Shopping Centre SCEPTRE Award for Waste Management. The winners of the 2013 SCEPTRE Awards were announced at a gala dinner on Tuesday 26th June at The Dorchester Hotel in London. The Waste Management category is highly coveted and the Willow Brook Centre was up against some of the largest
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I regularly walk up the pedestrian footpath parallel to the Tesco filling station and outside the Tesco staff entrance with my young children. The children complain about the smoke that they inhale as they walk past the Tesco employee smokers on the corner, where the delivery lorries pass. There has recently been a lot of press coverage of ‘second hand’
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The Willow Brook Centre in Bradley Stoke has been shortlisted for two prestigious national industry awards. The SCEPTRE Awards, run by Shopping Centre magazine, recognise the best practice and the best people in the shopping centre industry. The Willow Brook Centre has reached the shortlist in both the Waste Management Category and the Centre Manager (Medium) category. The SCEPTRE Awards
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Tesco Extra at the Willow Brook Centre in Bradley Stoke is launching its F&F Spring/Summer 2013 range by hosting a charity fashion show on Saturday 13th April. Their full range of stylish and affordable clothes will be modelled by Tesco staff and their families – babies, toddlers, teenagers and adults – during two catwalk shows at 11am and 2pm. The
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The Panasonic store at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre has ceased trading in mysterious circumstances. The consumer electronics shop located near the Town Square entrance to the mall closed on Sunday for what was advertised as a two-day period of “stock taking and refurbishment” but has failed to re-open this week. Investigations by The Journal have revealed that references
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The installation of speed humps on the approach road to the Willow Brook shopping centre in Bradley Stoke has completely eliminated accidents, according to the centre’s manager Scott Lahive. Traffic calming measures were installed on the road twelve months ago, following a series of accidents that the centre said were attributable to speeding. Mr Lahive reported in a written response
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