Ahead of the planned full closure of Gipsy Patch Lane from early March, Trading Standards and the police will be undertaking two joint operations a week, checking that vehicles are not breaching the weight limit on Braydon Avenue, Little Stoke. These operations will be targeted at times and places when/where intelligence suggests infringements are most likely to take place. Initially
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Braydon Avenue to be closed for up to three weeks from 2nd March
South Gloucestershire Council has announced that Braydon Avenue will be closed to vehicular traffic for a period of up to three weeks from Monday 2nd March in order to allow the construction of a raised speed table near the Concord Medical Centre. The speed table will replace the existing chicane priority narrowing at the same location, which the council claims
Continue readingCouncil consults on £0.9m Gipsy Patch Lane widening scheme
South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) is staging a public consultation on plans to widen a stretch of Gipsy Patch Lane, on the westbound approach to the A38 Gloucester Road, adjacent to the Rolls-Royce works. The proposed scheme will extend the dedicated westbound left-turn lane on Gipsy Patch Lane by approximately 120m. It also includes the widening of existing footways for use as shared
Continue readingArea Forum assigns £11k to repair pavements in Stoke Gifford
Pavements in three Stoke Gifford Roads are set to be repaired in 2013/14 after the Southern Brooks Area Forum agreed they should be made a priority in South Gloucestershire Council’s highways maintenance programme. Councillors on the Area Forum, which covers Bradley Stoke, Filton, Frenchay, Stoke Park, Patchway, Stoke Gifford and Winterbourne, were given £60,000 to allocate to maintenance schemes in
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