The Town Council has announced that the Bradley Stoke farmers’ & artisans’ market has changed to the last Friday of every month, starting tomorrow (Friday 28th January 2011). The market was trialled on three Wednesdays in October, November and December last year and organisers have now decided to make it a permanent fixture. Held in the Town Square at the
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At Wednesday night’s meeting, Bradley Stoke Town Council proposed spending some £3,500 of council tax payers’ money (possibly rising to £4,500) on celebrating the forthcoming Royal Wedding. This will take the form of a large TV screen, stalls and bunting etc. Personally I am against this proposal, especially in the light of our current financial and economic conditions but I
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Local cycling website Better by Bike is offering it readers a chance to win a year’s free swimming at Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre in a competition to celebrate the opening of two new cycle routes. The two new Cycling City routes run from the Leisure Centre to Parkway Station (Route 3) and Cribbs Causeway (Route 4). To be in with
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Bradley Stoke Town Council (BSTC) has been landed with a near £1,000 bill after electricity cables powering floodlights around the hard court at the Brook Way Activity Centre were “maliciously” severed. The cables, which run around the perimeter of the court in plastic ducting encased in a concrete shroud, were seen to have been cut in at least four places
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Having read of the Town Council’s desire to mess around and wreck with the ‘Jubilee Centre’ to accommodate themselves at great expense to the local tax payer whilst diminishing the usefulness of the building, would a better option not be to use all the empty office space above the ‘Willow Brook Centre’ so the seat of local government is right
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Bristol City Council’s move to stage a free fireworks display on the Downs next year could result in a smaller attendance at Bradley Stoke Town Council’s corresponding event at the Jubilee Centre. Crowds at the local display have been boosted in the past two years, following cancellation of the Bristol event previously organised by Bristol Round Table and Clifton Rotary
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No you haven’t slept through winter and woken up on 1st April, that really is a question to be considered by Town Councillors at a meeting of the Leisure, Youth and Amenities (LYA) Committee this evening (Monday 13th December). Following the launch, earlier this month, of a government competition to choose a town in the UK which will be bestowed
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Have your say: Should the lights go out in YOUR street? Bradley Stoke Town Council’s public drop-in session to discuss proposals for part-night street lighting takes place tomorrow (Saturday 4th December) from 10am to 2pm at the Jubilee Centre, Savages Wood Road. South Gloucestershire Council’s (SGC’s) suggestion that Bradley Stoke might like to introduce an overnight switch-off of selected streetlights
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The Bradley Stoke Fireworks Display, held annually at the Jubilee Centre, may have to move to another site if health and safety concerns arising from the large attendance cannot be resolved, the Town Council heard last week. Crowds at the event reached five to six thousand in 2009, when numbers were swelled due to the cancellation of the popular Clifton
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Bradley Stoke’s ever-popular Town Council Fireworks Display takes place this year on Sunday (7th November 2010) at the Jubilee Centre, Savages Wood Road [map]. As in previous years, entrance to the display is free but there will an entry point collection for St Peter’s Hospice, Mayor Ben Walker’s nominated charity. Last year’s display was watched by a bumper crowd estimated
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