The path around the north side of the lake in Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve has been closed for seven weeks, starting Monday 7th March, for surfacing works. The footpath improvement is part of a £250,000 lake desilting and improvement scheme, the main body of which was carried out in late 2021.
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Three Brooks Lake path set to be closed for 7 weeks
The path around the north side of the lake in Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve is set to be closed for seven weeks from Monday (7th March 2022), for surfacing works. The work forms part of a £250,000 lake desilting and improvement scheme, the main part of which was carried out in November and December last year.
Continue reading£250,000 lake desilting project gets under way
The long-awaited project to desilt the lake in Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve finally got under way on Monday 1st November when South Gloucestershire Council’s specialist contractor Land & Water Services Ltd moved onto the site. The work is expected to take 6 weeks to complete, i.e. until mid-December.
Continue readingLake desilting work set to start in November
South Gloucestershire Council has announced the imminent start of work to desilt the lake in Bradley Stoke’s popular Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve for the first time in 16 years. It is expected that footpath and cycle way closures will be in effect for a period of up to 21 days starting 1st November 2021.
Continue readingThree Brooks lake desilting postponed
South Gloucestershire Council has announced that its £250,000 project to desilt the lake at Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve has been delayed until November 2021. The work was supposed to take place this winter, but has now been rescheduled due to delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Continue readingLake desilting project: Further details released
The lake will be desilted by machine and the silt moved using dumper trucks to a spoil area (behind BSCS) which has recently been cleared in preparation for the main scheme starting in the autumn. Additionally, a 300-metre stretch of pathway along the northern edge of the lake will be surfaced.
Continue readingCouncil finds £250k to pay for lake desilting
Councillors in Bradley Stoke have welcomed South Gloucestershire Council’s (SGC’s) allocation of £250,000 to an environmental project that will see the lake in the Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve desilted for the first time in 15 years. The lake, which regularly floods due to its current condition, is in acute need of desilting and has been the subject of public
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