The M1 MetroBus service, which links Bradley Stoke with Cribbs Causeway, Bristol city centre and south Bristol is to be temporarily suspended this weekend (3rd/4th September) to allow an orderly transition to a new operator. Some late evening journeys on Friday 2nd September may also be impacted. The service will resume from Monday 5th September, running to a slightly revised timetable.
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As construction of the new two-story McDonald’s restaurant and drive-through at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre nears completion, the firm has confirmed a planned opening date of Wednesday 14th September. An application for a ‘late night refreshment’ premises licence covering the hours 11pm to 5am will be considered by councillors on Tuesday 6th September.
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Bradley Stoke Community School has praised the “exceptional” performances of its students in the first set of external GCSE examinations since 2019. The proportion of students achieving both English and Maths at Grade 4 or above was 81 percent (compared to 82 percent in 2019).
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Opposition members on Bradley Stoke Town Council have reacted angrily to some of the ruling Conservative group voting to restrict them to attending just one in three of the monthly councillor surgery sessions held on Saturday mornings at the Willow Brook Centre. The new system has been in effect since July following a close vote at June’s meeting of Full Council.
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Students at Bradley Stoke Community School are celebrating the results of their Post-16 examinations following two years of disruption due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The school reports that over 31 percent of all grades achieved were A*- A and 58 percent were A*- B, which is “in line with the best ever results at the school”.
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The first phase of work to install additional traffic calming measures on Stoke Lane will now commence on Monday 22nd August with a road closure lasting for two weeks, South Gloucestershire Council has announced. Further work, involving overnight road closures for resurfacing, will be carried out later in September.
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Entrants in this year’s Bradley Stoke in Bloom ‘Best Front Garden’ competition were presented with prizes and certificates at a ceremony staged on Saturday 13th August as part of the Scarecrow Trail launch event. The competition, now in its tenth year, attracted 15 entrants across its two (large and small garden) categories.
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Alive Activities, a local charity supporting older people, is pleased to announce the official opening of its newest Dementia Meeting Centre, at Bradley Stoke Evangelical Church. The meeting centre is the first to open in South Gloucestershire and the third one for Alive, following on from the success of its two other meeting centres in North Somerset and Bristol.
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South Glos Council is running a public consultation on a proposed change to the number of town council wards in Bradley Stoke. In order to avoid the need for “long ballot papers” at elections and the potential for “expensive by-elections” (due to the large number of voters in each of the current wards), it is proposed to increase the number of town wards from three to five.
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Police say they are carrying out extra patrols in Bradley Stoke after a woman reported that she’d been sexually assaulted while out walking in a local nature reserve. The incident took place in the Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve at around 8.30pm on Thursday 4th August 2022.
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