Bradley Stoke councillors have welcomed funding for an improved pedestrian crossing aimed at promoting walking to school in the town. £20,000 has been allocated by the Southern Brooks Area Forum to install a raised speed table across Brook Way between Wheatfield Drive and Courtlands Road, as part of the Wheatfield Primary School travel plan. As part of the Bradley Stoke
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South Gloucestershire Council in conjunction with Bristol City Council is undertaking consultation on the development of a major transport scheme – the North Fringe to Hengrove Package. The Package was identified in the South West Regional Funding Advice with a total allocation of £168m and comprises of a proposed rapid transit network with two branches in South Gloucestershire. One in
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Stoke Gifford campaigners have blasted the Highways Agency for forcing South Gloucestershire Council to withdraw a planning application to provide a new Park and Ride facility behind Bristol Parkway station. The congestion-busting scheme would have provided around 200 parking spaces adjacent to Hunts Ground Road in Stoke Gifford (and near to Parkway Station) and helped tackle the issue of the
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South Gloucestershire police have arrested three people for burglary acting on information from the public. On the afternoon of Sunday September 13, 2009, two 15-year-old boys were arrested in Stoke Gifford by police who responded to a call about youths congregating in a lane. Officers arrived to find someone had got into a house using a ladder from the garden
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