Facilities
Many of the facilities in the town were to be funded by the housing developers from housing sales, via 'Section 106' planning agreements. When house building and sales slowed for a time in the late 80s, there was a significant slowdown in facility completion. This included the late provision of the road joining the north and south sides of the town, and also completion of the doctors' surgery.
The town centre, Willow Brook Centre, opened on 13 October 2008 featuring around 18 units. Stores include: Tesco Extra, Costa Coffee, Phoenix Dental Surgery, Giant Bicycles, Pets at Home, Pitman Training, Panasonic, KFC, Greggs and Specsavers. The new town centre was named by an anonymous resident as part of a competition run by Bradley Stoke Town Council in partnership with Tesco. The centre is situated on the original Tesco supermarket site, and the redevelopment was approved by South Gloucestershire Council on 13 November 2006.
In addition the town is served by two Tesco Express stores, and an Aldi store (on the former Somerfield site.)
There are six primary schools, a leisure centre with a swimming pool and public library, gym and beauty salon, an emerging district centre, and a secondary school. The comprehensive secondary school, Bradley Stoke Community School, opened in September 2005 and has the capacity for up to 1,080 students. A post-16 centre at the school was completed in Summer 2010.
The Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve is an area of about 60 hectares (150 acres) in the town including bluebell woods, rough grassland, brooks, ponds, and the man-made Three Brooks Lake. The lake is home to many common species of waterfowl.
The town's local football team is Bradley Stoke Town FC. The cricket club is Bradley Stoke Cricket Club.
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