South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) has announced that the primary school planned for the Cheswick Village new neighbourhood will be the district’s first new primary academy. The new school, for which the Council has budgeted £5.4m, is to be sponsored by the Cabot Learning Federation (CLF). The Secretary of State confirmed today that the CLF will oversee the planning, development and
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House builder Crest Nicholson has submitted detailed plans for the first phase of its 1,200 home development on former green belt land at Harry Stoke. The application, for 166 dwellings, comes seven months after a masterplan for part of the development (phases 1 & 2 with parts of phases 3 & 5) was approved by South Gloucestershire Council (SGC), in
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Little Stoke resident Mike Trevelyan is due to set off on a mammoth 2,000 mile charity cycle ride this week, to raise money for St Peter’s Hospice. Mike, 21, plans to visit the grounds of all 92 Football and Premier League clubs in England and Wales in just 92 days. His epic journey, titled “Trev’s 92-Day Trek”, begins on Wednesday
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Councillors in Stoke Gifford have expressed concern over suggestions that Little Stoke Youth Centre might be taken over by Bradley Stoke Town Council as part of a radical restructuring of the way local youth clubs are funded. South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) is currently undertaking a public consultation on cost-cutting proposals for the services it provides to children, young people and
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A planning application for the construction of a University Technical College (UTC) on the site of the former Filton High School looks set to be submitted soon following a public consultation event held earlier this week. Funding for the a UTC to serve Bristol and South Gloucestershire was approved by the Government in October 2011 and South Gloucestershire Council has
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Stoke Gifford Parish Council has lodged an objection to Bristol Rovers’ plans to build a 21,700 seater stadium on land owned by the University of the West of England (UWE), near the new Cheswick Village housing development [map]. The Council discussed the football club’s planning application at a committee meeting on 27th March, where it was decided to object on
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St Michael’s Church of England Primary School in Stoke Gifford has been rated “good” by Ofsted inspectors, who visited the school for two days last month. The team of four inspectors observed approximately ten hours of lessons at the 597-pupil school, which is located in Ratcliffe Drive. The report begins: “This is a good school. The consistent quality of its
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Five people from the parish of Stoke Gifford were among 28 unsung heroes honoured at last week’s South Gloucestershire Community Awards evening in Filton. Kieran Coggins, Jessica Godsell and Dennis Richardson (all of Little Stoke) were joined by Natalie Downing and Andrew Phelps (both of Stoke Gifford) in receiving Chair’s Community Awards at a special ceremony held at BAWA last
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Little Stoke looks set to lose three of its bus services within the next two months following the announcement that Wessex Connect is to withdraw the U7, U8 and 482 from Sunday 20th May. The U7 is a daytime and evening service operating between Cribbs Causeway and the Frenchay campus of the University of the West of England (UWE). In
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City of Bristol College’s plan to build a new Engineering Department building on vacant land in front of Abbeywood Community School would lead to gridlock on local roads, according to local residents and school management. The College has applied for permission to make alterations to its existing Parkway Transport Technology Centre and erect a new building to house its aeronautics,
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