South Gloucestershire Council’s planning committee has, for the second time in two years, resolved to approve outline planning permission for the re-development of the 143ha (354 acre) former Filton Airfield site. A previous planning application for the site was put forward by then-owners BAE Systems in October 2014 and subsequently approved, subject to the signing of agreements requiring the developer
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A refugee living in Patchway has been named as the South Gloucestershire Community Learner of the Year for 2017. Hecham Alsaiyad, 39, worked as a pharmacist back in Syria but the civil war in his country forced him to leave. He came to the UK under the refugee resettlement programme to make a new life for himself and his family. Hecham, his wife
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Lidl UK has announced that it will be holding a public consultation event to outline its proposals for a new store on Hayes Way, Patchway. The proposed site (see map below) is a triangular plot of undeveloped land south of Hayes Way, between the Travelodge on Gloucester Road and the entrance to the new Aerospace Bristol museum. This site has existing planning
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A ‘unique’ new Special Free School has been granted planning approval by South Gloucestershire councillors. Members of the authority’s Development Control Committee (West) approved plans to build a new special free school for pupils with special educational needs on a site next to Patchway Community School in Hempton Lane, Patchway. The new Pegasus School will have 80 school places and
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Patchway Community School (formerly known as Patchway Community College) has become the latest secondary school to join the Olympus Academy Trust (OAT), where it joins Bradley Stoke Community School and Abbeywood Community School (Stoke Gifford), along with five local primary schools in Bradley Stoke, Filton and Stoke Lodge. The Patchway secondary had been in discussions with OAT for some time,
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Staff from the Tesco Extra store in Bradley Stoke have joined local volunteers to spruce up a local church hall. Dawn Richards, community champion at the Tesco store, and some of her colleagues were part of a team of eight people who spent a week in mid-August decorating the interior of St Chad’s Church Hall in Rodway Road, Patchway. The
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Patchway’s SPAR store recently hosted a charity birthday party in celebration of its parent company’s 100-year anniversary. Colleagues at the convenience store in Rodway Road hosted a birthday party themed coffee morning and a series of fundraising activities on Friday 1st September, all in aid of children’s charity, the NSPCC. SPAR Patchway is owned and operated by Blakemore Retail, which
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Patchway Community College reports that 46 percent of its students achieved at least a Grade 4 ‘pass’ (equivalent to a grade C) in both English and maths in this year’s GCSE examinations. Sixty-nine percent of students achieved an English ‘pass’ and 53 percent gained a ‘pass’ in maths. Notable individual successes highlighted by the school include: Julia Barela 1 A*, 3
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Legal proceedings have been initiated by South Gloucestershire Council to secure the removal of over a dozen traveller caravans that remain in a field at The Tumps, near Waterside Drive in Patchway. A larger number of caravans, believed to be approaching thirty, arrived on the site last Friday (18th August). They are understood to be the same group that was
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Students at Patchway Community College have achieved record results in this year’s post-16 examinations. Fifty-one percent of all grades were A*-B or equivalent and 80 percent were A*-C. The pass rate was 99 percent. Headteacher Karen Cornick praised the hard work and commitment of students and staff: “We are thrilled with this set of results! Our students have worked incredibly hard to
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