Southern Brooks Community Partnership has launched two new initiatives aimed at making Patchway a better place for people with dementia and their carers to live. Following the launch of the Patchway Dementia Action Alliance in September, monthly dementia awareness sessions are being staged at various venues in the town and a monthly ‘memory café’ is being held at the Casson Centre. Dementia Awareness
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A new police custody suite being constructed on the former Bensons site on Gloucester Road in Patchway could be run by a private firm when it opens in 2014. Avon and Somerset Police says it is considering the possibility of contracting a private partner to manage services at the new facility, along with others in Bridgwater, Keynsham and Yeovil. This would
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Police are appealing for help in tracing a stolen tricycle, which belongs to a five-year old girl who has cerebral palsy. Thieves broke into a shed at the home of the girl’s grandmother in Bradley Road, Patchway, to steal the specially-built red Tomcat trike, worth £600. The break-in was only noticed on Wednesday 6th November 2013, but could have happened
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Thousands of excited fans crowded from 4pm at The Mall, Cribbs Causeway earlier today (Thursday 7th November) to watch The Saturdays open The Mall’s Winter Wonderland and switch on the shopping centre’s Christmas lights. Saturdays fans braved the cold rain for this year’s Christmas lights switch-on concert in support of the military charity Help for Heroes. Bristol Fashion Week host
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South Gloucestershire Council is staging three drop-in consultation events which will summarise progress in the development of proposals for the Cribbs/Patchway New Neighbourhood. This will be a major new development area providing approximately 5,700 new dwellings, jobs and community facilities. The council’s Core Strategy long-term planning blueprint foresees the construction of 2,500 homes on the former Filton Airfield, 1,200 homes on
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A kitchen at a house in Cavendish Road, Patchway has been left badly damaged after a fire started when cooking was left unattended on a hob. When firefighters arrived on the scene shortly after 9am this morning (18th October), they found no one at home, so had to force entry. Two firefighters wearing breathing apparatus tackled the fire using one
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The “experimental” closure of Highwood Road to general traffic will be made permanent following a fractious meeting of South Gloucestershie councilors at Patchway Community College last night (16th October). Around 500 members of the public packed into the main hall at the school with a further 200 listening via an audio link in a smaller, adjacent hall. A report
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Patchway Youth Centre was re-opened with a bang last month by Cllr Ian Boulton, Chair of South Gloucestershire Council. The building, on Consiton Road, is now being run by Southern Brooks Community Partnership (SBCP), with financial support from South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) and Patchway Town Council. Attended by scores of local residents, young people and councillors, the opening was preceded
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In what appears to be a significant about-turn in policy, South Gloucestershire councillors who will meet next Wednesday (16th October) to decide whether to make permanent the “experimental” closure of Highwood Road to general traffic, have been told to base their decision only on “relevant transport considerations” and to take no account of the potential cost to the council. A
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South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) has announced the award of £50,000 to the Patchway Town Centre Group as a contribution towards a large regeneration project to improve the shopping area at Rodway Road. The money has come from the Local Sustainable Transport Fund (LSTF), a government funded project running across the West of England that aims to increase sustainable travel. The
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