Category Archives: CONsultants

RTPI

Posted on May 7, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

It looks like the city council’s planning officers are off doing whatever the hell they feel like again to help their private developer friends without going to the bother of consulting elected politicians. It says here that the Royal Town … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, CONsultants, Developments, Education, Housing, Local government, Planning, Politics, Transport | Tagged , , | There are 27 comments

Pompousthing's gone green

Posted on April 1, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

News just in. Bristol’s most pompous man, architect George Ferguson, has called in a firm of upmarket image consultants to undertake a drastic personal rebranding exercise for him. The aim is to help “detoxify the brand”; “recalibrate the public profile” … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, CONsultants, Developments, Environment, Global warming, Green Capital, Southville | Tagged , | There are 13 comments

RED TROUSERGATE: Bishop proposing multi-million public money favour to ol' Red Trousers!

Posted on March 29, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Despite Bristol City Council officers still quite deliberately failing to take a decision regarding the sale of our protected public park land to developers Square Peg (Blogger passim), the controversial Chocolate Factory development planned on the land at Greenbank is … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, Bristol and Bath Railway Path, Bristol East, CONsultants, Developments, Easton, Environment, Housing, Local government, Merchant Venturers, Planning, Politics, Transport | Tagged , , , , | There are 40 comments

Biggles and the IT cost conundrum

Posted on March 17, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Oh dear, oh dear. Are our friendly city council senior officer class telling porkies to our politicians again? Or are our politicians just telling us porkies? An intriguing document arrives in the Blogger’s inbox. Published by Bristol City Council, it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, CONsultants, IT, Lib Dems, Local government, Politics | Tagged , , , , | There are 8 comments

Lib Dem IT technofix horror

Posted on March 15, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Newbie Lib Dem finance wizard, the Hampshire businessman and former Tory Mike Popham – who’s been a councillor for less than two years – has granted an interview to the Cancer. And this owner of a software company providing services … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, Bristol Evening Post, Clifton, CONsultants, Lib Dems, Local government, Media, Politics | Tagged , , , | There are 29 comments

RED TROUSERGATE: shambles, complete and utter

Posted on March 12, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

New Lib Dem transport boss, Jon Rogers has been asking some questions about the whereabouts of the public consultation into the Greenbank public land sale (Blogger passim) and has posted a response in the comments. The responses he’s had from … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, Bristol and Bath Railway Path, Bristol East, CONsultants, Developments, Easton, Environment, Lib Dems, Local government, Merchant Venturers, Politics | Tagged , , , , | There are 82 comments

Lost and found? Or buried?

Posted on March 10, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Update on Friday’s blog about this mysterious missing public consultation into this unusual sale of protected public park land at Greenbank, engineered for Merchant Venturer George Ferguson’s personal benefit by council planning boss David Bishop. Now new Lib Dem transport … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, Bristol and Bath Railway Path, Bristol East, CONsultants, Developments, Easton, Environment, Knowle, Local government, Merchant Venturers, Politics, Twitter | Tagged , , , , , | There are 18 comments

Lost and found

Posted on March 6, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Now, where is that public consultation that city council planning boss, “Dodgy” David Bishop spent £12k of public money on? You know, the one that he instigated in to the sale of land on the Railway Path just eight months … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, Bristol and Bath Railway Path, Bristol East, CONsultants, Developments, Easton, Environment, Local government, Merchant Venturers, Politics | Tagged , , , | There are 6 comments

Howzat!! Bristol Labour Party caught taking orders from cricket club toffs and House of Lords lobbyists

Posted on February 21, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

The Gruesome truth about school places in North Bristol: what you won’t be reading in the Evening Cancer … by lilly manilly Whatever happened to that new school at Ashley Down? They spent enough money on the feasibility studies and … Continue reading →

Posted in Bishopston, Bristol, Bristol Evening Post, Bristol West, CONsultants, Developments, Education, FOI, Local government, Politics | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | There are 15 comments

RED TROUSER GATE: the community CONsultation

Posted on December 8, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Another interesting aspect of the ongoing dispute over George Ferguson’s plans to build on the Railway Path at Greenbank comes to light … So far it’s gone entirely unreported that a paper petition containing 731 signatures from local people opposing … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, Bristol and Bath Railway Path, Bristol East, CONsultants, Developments, Easton, Environment, Local government, Merchant Venturers | Tagged , , , , | There are 4 comments