The Sort It waste disposal and recycling centre in Station Road, Little Stoke, is to see its gates remain closed for two weeks from Monday (15th April) to allow essential repairs to be carried out. South Gloucestershire Council says the temporary closure is needed in order to “replace the floor of the site.” The site is due to reopen on Saturday 27th April.
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A local GP practice has submitted plans to increase its internal floorspace by more than a third, by adding extra floors to its existing building. Concord Medical Centre, in Braydon Avenue, Little Stoke, wants to add one extra floor to two wings of the building, increasing the gross internal floorspace by 38.6 percent. The number of off-road car parking spaces provided would remain unchanged.
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Police are seeking witnesses to a robbery that took place in Little Stoke Park last month. Sometime between 6.30pm and 7pm on Friday 12th January, two unknown offenders threatened the juvenile victim with bladed weapons and stole his electric Sur-Ron bike. The victim sustained no physical injury.
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Three arrests have been made after a teenager was reportedly stabbed and robbed in Little Stoke Park last night (Wednesday 7th February). Police attended the incident alongside paramedics after witnesses reported a boy had been attacked by a group of three people, one of whom had a knife, and had his bike and mobile phone stolen.
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Officers at South Glos Council have recommended approval of a planning application for the final two phases of a 1,200-dwelling housing development in Harry Stoke. However, a decision on the application will now be made by a committee of councillors after Stoke Gifford ward member Neel Das Gupta successfully invoked the ‘call in’ procedure.
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Olympus Academy Trust is consulting on proposed changes to admission arrangements for some of its schools with effect from September 2025. If approved, the changes would see the Year 7 intake of Abbeywood Community School permanently increased from 180 to 240. The Year 10 point of entry at the same school would also be removed.
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St Michael’s Primary School is celebrating a big win for one of its pupils whose design was picked by metro mayor Dan Norris in his annual Christmas card competition. After careful judging of thousands of entries by the mayor and his staff, eight-year-old Ellie Walters’s design of a festive dog saw off stiff competition to win the contest.
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Detailed plans for a further 143 homes along the Stoke Gifford By-Pass have been approved by officers at South Gloucestershire Council. Submitted by Crest Nicholson, the application relates to Phases 2.1, 2.2a & 2.2b of the developer’s ‘South of the Railway’ site, which has outline planning permission for a total of 1,290 homes, a local centre, community facilities, landscaping and open space.
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Witnesses are being sought after an incident in Little Stoke which left a man needing hospital treatment. A man in his 20s suffered bruising, three chipped teeth and shoulder and jaw injuries after he was punched by a group of eight to ten youths at approximately 11.40pm on Wednesday 8th November. His phone was also stolen.
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With rapid progress being made on the new mixed-use development on land at Fox Den Road, Stoke Gifford, South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) has recently approved a further supplementary planning application for advertising signage at the site. Planning consent has now been granted for a 6m-high double-sided illuminated totem sign…
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