Bradley Stoke’s Deputy Mayor Ben Walker has expressed concern over obstruction of the pavement around the recently-erected works compound at Bradley Stoke Surgery on Brook Way. He raised the matter at last Wednesday’s Planning Committee meeting, asking if ISG Pearce – the contractor working on the surgery extension project, had permission to obstruct the highway in this way. He also
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The Planning Committee of Bradley Stoke Town Council has lodged a strongly-worded objection to a change of usage application for the site of the Bristol Motorcycle Training Centre in the south-east corner of the town. The centre, located within the Vantage Office Park on Old Gloucester Road, was established in 1979 and claims to have been the country’s first purpose
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Bowsland Green Primary School has submitted a planning application to create eleven additional parking places within the school grounds despite having to withdraw a similar plan earlier this year because planning officials considered it “contentious”. South Gloucestershire Council’s Local Plan suggests a cap of one parking space for every two members of staff, but with 15 spaces already available for
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Construction of a new Multiple Sclerosis Therapy centre on land off Bradley Stoke Way could start before the end of the month according to a planning document published by SouthGloucestershire Council (SGC). Planning officials recommended that the project be given the go-ahead earlier this month and their decision has now been confirmed after Council members chose not to “call in”
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Officials at South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) have recommended that plans for the construction of a new Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre on land off Bradley Stoke Way be given the green light. The Moonstone Appeal wants to build the centre as a replacement for the existing West of England MS Therapy Centre in Nailsea, which it claims is poorly located and
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The Governors of Wheatfield Primary School and a number of residents of Wheatfield Drive have registered concerns over the proposed construction of a new MS Therapy Centre on land off Bradley Stoke Way. An organisation known as The Moonstone Appeal submitted plans for the new centre to South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) in June. Those plans showed access to the site
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The organisation behind a new Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Therapy Centre proposed for land off Bradley Stoke is facing a race against time to get planning approval and commence building before a funding source is lost. The West of England MS Therapy Centre is currently based in Nailsea but the charity behind the centre (The Bristol and West Multiple Sclerosis Society)
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Planners at South Gloucestershire Council have gven the go ahead for a second temporary classroom block to be erected at Bradley Stoke’s Baileys Court Primary School. The planning application, lodged in December 2008, is for an Elliot modular building configured to host two classrooms. The new block will be located on a section of playing field on the Baileys Court
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South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) has approved a “controversial” planning application for advertising signage in Bradley Stoke’s new town centre development. As reported in The Journal’s article on 30th April, Bradley Stoke Town Council’s (BSTC) planning committee unanimously agreed to oppose the application at a meeting on 23rd April, but the committee apparently overlooked the fact that SGC’s consultation period for
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Residents of South Gloucestershire are being urged to have their say on the future development of the district following proposals from the South West Regional Assembly (SWRA) which could result in the building of nearly 31,000 new homes by 2026. While some of this development will be met from existing major new planned development areas at Northfield (Filton), Emersons Green
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