Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre has confirmed that work is about to start on the construction of two controversial fast food & drink restaurants, both with drive-through facilities, that were granted planning permission on appeal in January 2020. If all goes to plan, the McDonald’s and Starbucks units could be open by August.
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A well-known firm of mobile butchers is to start trading at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre from tomorrow (Wednesday 12th May 2021). A truck from Mark’s Mobile Butchers will trade from a location on the edge of the town square, near the Subway store, on five days each week.
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A stone ‘happiness snake’ created during the coronavirus lockdown along the side of a popular footpath in Bradley Stoke has found a permanent home at the town’s Willow Brook shopping centre. It can be found in a small garden area near the bus entrance off Bradley Stoke Way.
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Safe shopping guidelines, increased hygiene practices and regular communication with customers are just some of the measures that form part of the reopening plan at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook shopping centre. As restrictions are relaxed, the centre has released plans of how Willow Brook will operate as more stores begin to reopen.
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McDonald’s Restaurants Ltd has submitted a third planning application for advertising signage at the site of its proposed new drive-through and sit-in restaurant at the Willow Brook shopping centre in Bradley Stoke.
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Cllr Roger Avenin asks: “How did such a down-market development such as McDonald’s and Starbucks come to be foisted upon our town?”
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Editor’s note: This article, first published in our February magazine, is an extended version of an earlier website article that was published on 16th January 2020 (the day the planning inspector’s report was released). Bradley Stoke looks set to get two new drive-through and sit-in fast food restaurants after a planning inspector allowed an appeal against South Gloucestershire Council’s decision
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Bradley Stoke looks set to get two new drive-through and sit-in fast food restaurants after a planning inspector allowed an appeal against South Gloucestershire Council’s decision to refuse permission for development at the town’s Willow Brook shopping centre. The inspector’s decision means that ‘full’ permission has been granted for a two-storey McDonald’s restaurant and a single-storey Starbucks coffee shop, both
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The parties involved in the Willow Brook Centre’s appeal against a decision to refuse planning permission for additional development at the town centre site have been making their final written submissions to the Planning Inspectorate. The centre wants to build two new drive-through food and drink units (foreseen to be occupied by McDonald’s and Starbucks) and is also seeking outline
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One Below, a new UK discount shopping brand from the original founders of Poundworld, is to open a store in Bradley Stoke later this month, creating 20 local retail jobs. The new store is scheduled to open in the former Poundworld unit at the Willow Brook Centre on Friday 27th September, at 10am. The independent chain claims to be the
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