Local charity Southern Brooks Community Partnership (SBCP) has announced the availability of five full-time ‘Community Organiser’ posts from 1st April 2013. Working with CVS South Gloucestershire and Chase & Kingsforest Community Project, SBCP is taking part in a national scheme to “listen” to 500 local residents over the next 12 months. They have opportunities for five full-time posts, working for
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Workers at the Rolls-Royce factory in Patchway will not be affected by the loss of nearly 400 jobs within the firm’s defence division, says the Bristol Post. News emerged on Tuesday that the company had begun consultation on staff reductions at its defence division plant at Ansty, near Coventry, where 378 “highly skilled” jobs are at risk. The Unite union
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Avon and Somerset Police say they have arrested two people after a man died at a property in Willow Close, Patchway, in the early hours of this morning (Monday 21st January). Police crime scene investigators remained at the scene this afternoon (see photo above). In a statement released to The Journal, police said: “At around 5:35am we were informed by
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Local residents, community groups, businesses and victims of crime will all get the chance to have their say on the first Police and Crime Plan for Avon and Somerset when Commissioner Sue Mountstevens makes a return visit to Patchway next month. The newly-elected Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) first visited Patchway last December to to learn first hand about the
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South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) has extended the deadline for comments on its draft Development Framework Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) for the proposed Cribbs/Patchway New Neighbourhood, which could see 5,700 new dwellings built in the area by 2027. The consultation was originally scheduled to finish last week but the Council has revised the deadline to 1st February after two further documents
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Contractors worked solidly during Monday and Tuesday night this week to successfully install a new Pegwell Brake Footbridge over the M5 near Patchway as part of the M4/M5 Managed Motorways scheme. The new steel pedestrian bridge, located between junctions 16 and 17 of the motorway, is suitable for high-sided vehicles to pass under when the managed motorway is fully operational
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Bovis has been given permission to change the Charlton Hayes masterplan, so that it can build wholly-residential properties on a small part of the development originally foreseen for ‘mixed use’. Conditions attached to the outline planning permission (granted in 2008) for the 2,200 home development require a total of 60,000 sqm of employment space to be created but the housebuilder
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The world did not end on 21/12/12 the way some interpreters of the Mayan calendar had anticipated, but new opportunities for growth are certainly on the way in Patchway. As the festive season ends and we all come to terms with the reality of our new year’s resolutions, Southern Brooks Community Partnership has designed a range of courses which can
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Residents and businesses in Patchway are being asked their views about how they would like to see the area around The Parade (Coniston Road) improved. The area identified for works includes a parade of shops, maisonettes and offices, the square in front and surrounding blocks of flats. Merlin Housing Society has money to spend on improvements to The Parade and
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A replacement for the recently-removed Pegwell Brake footbridge over the M5 near Patchway is due to be installed next week, reports the Highways Agency. The previous bridge was dismantled last November, when a number of massive cranes were brought in to hoist it away after it had been cut into two sections. The bridge, also known locally as the Banana
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