May 2021
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More roadside wildflower beds for the Stokes
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journey along either of the two main routes through Bradley Stoke could become a colourful experience this summer if a plan to significantly expand the number of roadside wildflower meadows comes to fruition. Wildflower strips totalling around 150m in length were created along Brook Way (either side of the Saxon Way junction) in 2018 and have resulted in much-appreciated displays of blooms in the last two summers. New wildflower strips being created alongside The latest scheme will see wildflower Bradley Stoke Way, south of the leisure centre strips created along a 200m-long section of grassland alongside Bradley Stoke Way, in A spokesperson for South Gloucestershire front of homes in Champs Sur Marne (just Council said: “We are committed to improving south of the leisure centre). The existing biodiversity and managing our land in a way wildflower strips along Brook Way are also that supports habitats and connectivity for being extended southwards by around 150m, wildlife and pollinators and helps to make our almost as far as Merryweather Close. communities attractive and pleasant places The meadows will consist of colourful for our residents. Over the last few years perennial flowers such as oxeye daisy, we have carried out trials to adopt a more knapweed, birdsfoot trefoil, cowslips and natural approach to our verge management buttercups. There will also be some annual which supports the flora and fauna while plants sown to give an even more colourful also ensuring visibility at road junctions is display in the first couple of years. They will maintained and safe for road users.” be cut in late summer and the grass removed, ● To comment as the meadows develop, WB Generic more AW.qxp_Layout 12:38 Page 3 to encourage wild flowers1 to09/02/2021 grow. email communityspaces@southglos.gov.uk
Brook Way, Bradley Stoke (May 2019)
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