The anticipated reopening date of the Station Road junction on Gipsy Patch Lane has been put back for the fourth time in as many months, this time by up to six weeks. Although the work to extend the retaining wall is complete, there remains some outstanding work concerning utilities in the area, in particular a power cable that needs to be extended by National Grid.
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A Bristol husband-and-wife team who run an autism- and neurodiverse-friendly shop enjoyed an unforgettable visit to Downing Street last week to share their inspiring community work with the prime minister. Community champions Lucy and Richard Smith, owners of Your Village Shop at Stoke Gifford Retirement Village, were invited as guests of their local member of parliament Jack Lopresti.
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Plans to build a student accommodation block on an unused part of a Stoke Gifford retail park have been revealed by Canada Life Asset Management, in partnership with UWE. The proposed building, ranging from five to nine storeys high, would be built on the footprint of the garden centre of the former B&Q superstore at Filton Retail Park, off Fox Den Road.
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Plans to build a 315-place (1.5 forms of entry) primary school on the Brooklands Park housing development in Harry Stoke could be scrapped, if the recommendations of a recent officer report are accepted by South Gloucestershire Council. The move would lead to some children having to travel up to 2 miles to attend existing schools in adjacent areas.
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A man from Cheswick Village, in Stoke Gifford, has been ordered to pay a total of £1,541 after South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) prosecuted him for fly-tipping waste in a pub car park in Hambrook. CCTV footage showed the driver of a car removing approximately six black bags of household waste which he placed and left in the car park, before driving off.
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A further overrun on remedial work taking place on the railway embankment adjacent to the new bridge on Gipsy Patch Lane means that the Station Road junction is now not expected to reopen until later this month. The additional delay is being blamed on the need to carefully phase the works to ensure temporary ground stability, along with issues relating to buried utilities.
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Celebrity chefs and chart-topping musicians, including Scouting For Girls and Blue, will be appearing at an event taking place in Little Stoke Park over the weekend of 12th, 13th & 14th May. Around 3,000 people are expected to attend each day of the Bristol Foodies Festival, which has previously been held on The Downs in Bristol.
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A builder from Stoke Gifford has been sentenced at Bristol Magistrates’ Court for offences including aggressive commercial practice, following an investigation by South Gloucestershire Council Trading Standards. One of his victims was a Bradley Stoke resident who paid up front for him to lay a new patio and renew some fencing, but the trader carried out only minimal work and then failed to return.
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Detailed plans for Phase 2 of the Mulgrove Farm Village housing development on land east of Stoke Gifford have been submitted by Wain Homes. The latest ‘reserved matters’ planning application is for a further 162 homes on land in the south-east of the site that is still in the ownership of South Gloucestershire Council.
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The new M4 MetroBus service running along the £57 million Cribbs Patchway MetroBus Extension (CPME) route began operating today (Sunday 22nd January). Designed to provide an express connection between The Mall at Cribbs Causeway and Bristol Parkway Station, the investment has included the installation of a new railway bridge and brand-new bus lanes on Gipsy Patch Lane.
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