Bradley Stoke’s ever-popular Town Council Fireworks Display takes place on Sunday (2nd November 2014) at the Jubilee Centre, Savages Wood Road [BS32 8HL, map]. As in previous years, entrance to the display is free but there will an entry point collection for the Mayor’s charities, which this year are the Royal British Legion and the Great Western Air Ambulance. With the costs
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Like many of your readers, I was amazed at the arrogance shown by our town councillors in ignoring the will of Bradley Stoke residents, who voted in favour of extra car parking at the Brook Way Activity Centre & Bradley Stoke Surgery site, in place of the existing tennis courts (also the cheapest option). Still, this is something we have
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Residents of properties neighbouring Bradley Stoke Town Council’s Brook Way Activity Centre have voiced concerns that a working group set up to examine ideas gathered in a public consultation on the future of the site is giving too much weight to responses that suggested the construction of a new building. The working group was set up in April, following publication
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A set of boulders has today been placed on the access ramp leading to a grassed area alongside Bradley Stoke Way that was, on two recent occasions, used as the site of an illegal traveller encampment. The move comes two weeks after defences consisting of four wooden posts and two young trees, installed after the first traveller encampment in June,
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Town councillors are to review a controversial new policy that potentially allows more than one mobile food trader to operate in the car parks of each of Bradley Stoke’s three council-run activity centres, following a series of seemingly contradictory decisions that have led to two potential new operators withdrawing their street trading licence applications. The town council’s Finance Committee agreed
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Bradley Stoke Town Council has confirmed that it has installed a number of wooden posts in an attempt to to prevent further access to a site alongside Bradley Way, where a group of travellers recently established an unauthorised encampment. The travellers left the site last Thursday (26th June) and the town council says it has “wasted no time” in taking action,
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Councillor John Ashe was elected as the new mayor of Bradley Stoke on Wednesday 21st May, and he kindly found some time to answer a few of our questions, so that readers of The Journal could get to know him better. John recalls moving to Bradley Stoke back in 1992, following the birth of his twin boys. He says the
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What did YOU think of the 2014 Bradley Stoke Community Festival, staged over three days last weekend? The town council spends around £24,000 staging the popular event, with most of this going to an events management company, which undertakes the bulk of the organisation on the council’s behalf. Events over the weekend include the pre-school ‘picnic in the park’ on the
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The Annual General Meeting of Bradley Stoke Town Council on 21st May saw outgoing Mayor Brian Hopkinson present cheques to his three chosen ‘charities of the year’: Friends of Jubilee Green, Whizz Kidz and Heartful Dodgers. The money handed to the groups derives from fundraising events organised by the town council over the past 12 months, principally the community festival
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The main day of Bradley Stoke’s annual Community Festival drew a big crowd to the Jubilee Centre after the forecast thundery downpours failed to materialise during the morning and early afternoon. The usual mix of music, dance, sport, demonstrations and sideshows was accompanied by bright weather for most of the afternoon, with only a few spots of rain. We have
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