Photo of Barclays House from the Daily Echo

Your Councillors have raised real concerns about plans by BCP Council to purchase Barclays House for £17million after the bank announced it was vacating their campus later this year.

Access onto Magna Road from Arrowsmith Road will be closed for the summer to enable major works to take place potentially causing backed up traffic on Gravel Hill and Dunyeats Road.

It is just over a week until the 10th Anniversary Broadstone Family Fun Day, which this year incorporates ‘Rock on the Rec’, and we need your help to make it a success!

CK Hutchinson Networks, the owners of Three mobile, have been in touch with us again.

It has been a long time coming but last week saw the remaining cars leave the former Oaks Garden Centre site.

Our thanks go to the volunteers from Broadstone in Bloom for their hard work installing hanging baskets through the centre of the community last weekend.

We were humbled to be invited to take part in a service to remember those killed in the Falklands Conflict on its 40th anniversary and to meet veterans at the Royal British Legion.

Local residents living in bands A to D who pay council tax via direct debit should have received their £150 energy rebate, and those who pay some other way should by now have received a letter giving instructions around how to make their claim.

As the country marks 70 years of Queen Elizabeth II, we were thrilled to see volunteers decking our flagpoles with union flags and traders decorating shop windows with red, white and blue.

Planning Committee narrowly voted to refuse the application for another hot food takeaway on The Broadway in Broadstone after both Vikki and Mike spoke about the impact on other businesses and how this did not comply with policies under the Broadstone Neighbourhood Plan.