South Gloucestershire Council has announced that Bradley Stoke is to be the next residential area in the district to have its street lights converted to low-emission LED technology, as part of district-wide measures to reduce street lighting-related energy costs and carbon emissions. LED lights are fast becoming the norm for local authority street lights as they consume about 60 percent
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People living in South Gloucestershire will soon need to pre-register details of their residency and motor vehicles in order to use local authority Sort It waste disposal and recycling centres, such as the one in Station Road, Little Stoke. Each resident will be able to register up to two vehicles per address, either online, over the phone or in person
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Licensing officers from South Gloucestershire Council teamed up with traffic officers from Avon and Somerset Police on Tuesday (4th August) for a joint operation to carry out checks on hackney carriages and private hire vehicles. Police officers stopped the targeted vehicles and directed drivers over to a checkpoint area located at the Jubilee Centre in Bradley Stoke. Upon arrival, routine compliance
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Local Conservatives are celebrating a clean sweep of all five Bradley Stoke seats in the South Gloucestershire district elections and all 15 seats on Bradley Stoke Town Council, repeating their across the board victory at the last local elections in 2011. The results leave former town mayor Ben Walker, who defected to UKIP a year after being elected on a Conservative ticket in
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The North Fringe to Hengrove (NFHP) MetroBus Scheme, which will see the construction of new bus lanes on Bradley Stoke Way and the long-awaited implementation of a by-pass for Stoke Gifford has been granted full approval by the Department for Transport (DfT). The news, announced by Chancellor George Osborne in yesterday’s budget speech, opens the way for construction to start as early as next
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South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) has opened what is likely to be the final series of public consultations on proposals to introduce extensive new bus lanes on various sections of Bradley Stoke Way. The proposed bus lanes form part of the proposed North Fringe to Hengrove (NFHP) MetroBus Scheme, which was granted planning permission last year. MetroBus represents a major investment
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South Gloucestershire Council has conceded that it isn’t doing enough to keep residents informed about the large number of major roadworks that are currently under way or planned across the district. The admission came in a quarterly performance report submitted to the council’s Planning, Transportation & Strategic Environment Committee at the end of January which showed that public satisfaction with
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Scores of residents in Bradley Stoke, Little Stoke and Stoke Gifford have missed out on South Gloucestershire Council’s one-off collection of unused and unwanted green bins because of problems with the distribution of a leaflet that was supposed to give residents one week’s notice of the date on which the bins needed to be left out. The December edition of
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My husband took some items to the local recycling unit this morning, as we missed the collection last Friday. We are keen to recycle as much as we can and have used this facility for the 27 years that we’ve lived in Stoke Gifford. Despite the fact that the automatic registration number plate registered our vehicle correctly, he was stopped
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Major alterations planned for Aztec West Roundabout, Woodlands Lane junction and Bradley Stoke Way. South Gloucestershire Council and Bristol City Council have opened an informal ‘pre-consultation’ on planned changes to road layouts, speed limits and parking arrangements along the route of the proposed North Fringe to Hengrove Package (NFHP) MetroBus Scheme, which was granted planning permission earlier this year. The
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