Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre (WBC) has submitted a planning application to install a lockable gate on the pedestrian access route from Manor Farm Crescent in an effort to stem late night anti-social behaviour (ASB) in neighbouring streets. The move comes seven months after Bradley Stoke Mayor Ben Walker called a multi-agency meeting to discuss ways of tackling the rise
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The Reflections hairdressing salon at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre has announced that it is start opening on Sundays. Writing on the salon’s webpage, Manager Hannah Fox says: “I am excited to announce that, due to client demand, from 20th February we will be opening on Sundays! The salon will be open between 10am to 4pm and is already taking
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South Gloucestershire planners are to visit to the proposed site of a new Domino’s Pizza store this Friday (4th February) at 10:20am following the submission of a planning application to convert a garage in a corner of the car park at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre. The application was referred to South Gloucestershire Council’s Development Control (West) Sites Inspection Sub-Committee
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Bradley Stoke residents should find it easier to speak to a police officer in person following the official opening of a ‘beat post’ at the Willow Brook shopping centre earlier this month. The new office, accessed from the shopping mall via a short passage between the Santander bank agency and Reflections hairdressers, gives police a local base meaning that they
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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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The Willow Brook Centre (WBC) has announced that Bradley Stoke’s new Boots store will open on Wednesday 9th February. The store will stock a wide range of health and beauty products and provide a full prescription dispensing service through its ‘Midnight Pharmacy’, which will remain open until midnight Monday to Saturday and 4pm on Sunday. A promotional leaflet [PDF, 1.2MB],
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Bradley Stoke Town Council’s (BSTC’s) Planning Committee has objected to plans to convert a garage in the car park of the Willow Brook Centre into a takeaway pizza shop. The committee claims the takeaway would “affect the amenity of neighbouring properties” and that there is “already adequate provision of this type of business in the local area”. Councillors have also
Continue readingA new agency branch of Santander Bank has opened in Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre. It occupies the same mall unit as the former Nationwide Building Society branch, which closed in mysterious circumstances in February. The new agency is operated by 1st Equity (part of financial services company 1st Group UK of Thornbury), who also ran the Nationwide branch
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Adverts for vacancies at the new Boots store and regional office in Bradley Stoke have begun appearing on the Boots jobs website. A press release put out by the Willow Brook Centre in August stated there would be at least 30 jobs at the new store, while a planning application seeking to install a mezzanine floor in the unit suggested
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The Domino’s pizza chain has submitted a planning application to open a new store in a converted garage in a corner of the car park at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre. The garage, situated just off the main access road into the town centre site, where the road turns to the right after passing behind the new Poundstretcher store, was
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