Category Archives: Bedminster

Are our politicians in danger of having to express a view in the near future?

This city’s politicians’ habit of speaking in bland, meaningless platitudes on any and every subject while the bureaucrats they handsomely pay are left with a free hand to royally shaft us may be under threat judging by events today. First … Continue reading

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Did you lie Councillor? Or are you merely an incompetent?

The webcast for the full council meeting of 15 September is now available from the Bristol City Council website here. Using the index you can go to section 4.c Questions from the public where you will find the following: PQ3 … Continue reading

Posted in Ashton Vale, Bedminster, Bristol, Bristol and Bath Railway Path, Bristol East, Bristol South, Developments, Easton, Environment, Lib Dems, Local government, Planning, Politics, Southville, World Cup 2018 | Tagged , , , , , | There are 16 comments

The real BCFC pro-forma letter …

Bcfc Supporters Letter by bristol_citizen on Scribd

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Resurrected Red Dawn rises?

Actually I very much doubt it … But I was re-reading one of Dawn’s HearFromYourMP alerts – the sterile monthly dirge the Dim Prawn delivers direct to my mailbox – from July, which had this to say about the Tesco … Continue reading

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Development Control (South and East) Committee (part 1)

Sharp eyed observers may have noticed that a special meeting of the Development Control (South and East) Committee of Bristol City Council is scheduled for 6.00pm November 4. And the Bristol Blogger can confirm that this will be the planning … Continue reading

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News release: BEDMINSTER RESIDENTS AGAINST TESCO’S EXPANSION INTO ASHTON GATE (BERATE)

NEWS 5th July 2009 Greater Bedminster Residents meet to form “No-Superstore” Campaign Group More than 70 people from Greater Bedminster packed into a meeting room at the Southville Centre on Friday night, to hear more about the proposed Tesco superstore … Continue reading

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Red alert! Planning gain games

More on the Bristol City Stadium saga … This weekend found the Cancer merrily spinning away for City chairman Steve Lansdowne with a generous little page 3 hagiography on his ascent up the Sunday Times Rich List while their ‘star’ … Continue reading

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Sprawl news

News drifts in about the land assembly process for the new Bristol City FC stadium at Ashton Vale. Predictably it features a lot of familiar faces on that small but influential local developer scene. At the beginning of December 2007, … Continue reading

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Bristol City Council artwatch update

It looks like The Blogger’s lonely campaign to get the Philip Street graffiti accepted by the city council as “art” just like Banksy – mainly to irritate the fuck out them – might be about to catch fire. Over on … Continue reading

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Whoops! Green councillor shoots himself in foot!

Photos by _saturnine It’s more bad news for Bristol’s backfiring green machine . . . Ho, ho, ho . . . Looks like Bristol Green Party’s uncanny knack to tune right in there on public opinion strikes again. Ha, ha, … Continue reading

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