A new gym could open soon in Patchway following the submission of a planning application to change the permitted usage of a unit in the Smith’s Complex, near Patchway Roundabout. The application, registered with South Gloucestershire Council on 19th December, seeks to change the use of the building from ‘retail store’ (class A1) to ‘fitness studio’ (class D2). Signage on the building
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A photograph taken by the Patchway Journal’s Editor has been featured in The Mall at Cribbs Causeway’s electronic Christmas card, sent to thousands of subscribers on the shopping centre’s mailing list. The shot, taken at the Christmas Lights Switch-On event on 10th November 2011, captures the moment when pop idol Olly Murs pressed the plunger to turn on the festive
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Residents concerned about the volume of traffic using Shellmor Avenue in Stoke Lodge as a shortcut between the A38 Gloucester Road and Stoke Lane have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a scheme to close the left turn into the road from the A38 southbound. The results of a recent public consultation on three possible schemes to address the traffic problems
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A man has been arrested for possession of illegal drugs after he attempted to run away after a car was stopped by police in Patchway. The officers involved were working on Operation Tonic, Avon and Somerset Police’s Christmas anti-drink/drug driving campaign that was launched recently at Aztec West. Later, at the police station, the man was found to be in
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Pupils from Callicroft Primary School joined local dignitaries to officially open the new Patchway Hub in Rodway Road on Thursday afternoon (15th December). Patchway’s new purpose-built centre for health and council services for children and young people entered service in early September, bringing essential services right to the heart of the community, with parents and carers of children of all
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Planners at South Gloucestershire Council are proposing that an extra 3,950 homes be built in the Patchway/Cribbs Causeway area over the next 15 years, on top of existing commitments to build 2,200 homes at Charlton Hayes and 1,750 at Cribbs Causeway and on land south of Filton Airfeld. The plans for additional homes were revealed in a revised version of
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The iconic Coca‑Cola truck, star of the drink company’s well-known ‘Holidays are Coming’ television advert, visits North Bristol for the second time in as many weeks this afternoon. The massive truck will be parked up at The Mall, Cribbs Causeway, from 12 noon until 8pm. Members of the public will be able to have their picture taken in front of
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A local secondary school has been rated “good” in a subject-specific Ofsted inspection that took place last month. Inspectors visited Patchway Community College on 21st and 22nd November to assess the school’s teaching of economics and business, subjects closely related to the school’s specialism in ‘business and enterprise learning’. Pupils’ achievement in the subjects is said to be “good and
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Avon and Somerset Police’s Operation Tonic Christmas drink and drug driving campaign started today (Thursday 1st December) and the A38 Gloucester Road near the Aztec West Roundabout was the site of one of the first checkpoints to be set up. Officers from the force’s Road Policing Unit were randomly stopping vehicles on the southbound carriageway just south of the roundabout
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A dodgy kebab caused a Patchway man to breach his community order, according to a report in today’s Bristol Evening Post. Jordan Hendry was in Bristol Crown Court to explain why he had twice not turned up to do unpaid work in October. His solicitor Dianne Heys revealed: “Mr Hendry says on one of those occasions – he can’t be
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