Category Archives: Developments

Tonight Matthew we're going to be The Bristol Blogger . . .

Posted on December 13, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

It’s good news for The Blogger tonight at least. The entirely predictable final cancellation of the ongoing arena fiasco gives us a night off. We’ll just leave the commentary to Bristolians who can do it far more eloquently and intelligently … Continue reading →

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Cui bono?

Posted on November 20, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Cordwell Property Group has been appointed by Bristol City Council as preferred developer to create a – yawn – mixed-use business and leisure scheme on the site of the ‘O’ and ‘M’ Sheds on Welsh Back. Tom Wilcox, development director … Continue reading →

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Museum of Bristol update

Posted on November 17, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Predictably the Labour Cabinet nodded through on Thursday the £25m Museum of Bristol project on the site of the Industrial Museum. And just in case any of our elected representatives – not in the cabinet – might have wanted to … Continue reading →

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Only in South Bristol . . .

Posted on November 12, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

A half-dressed Denise Van Outen who was not in Hartcliffe today The new Morrison’s store at Hartcliffe – launched today in a hail of crazed government regeneration hyperbole that was enough to make you think they’d rebuilt the fucking Pompidou … Continue reading →

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Will our new museum be Bristol's very own chamber of financial horrors?

Posted on November 11, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Blimey. It looks like Bristol’s Tories have finally woken up and decided to start acting like an opposition after six months of pointless fawning over Labour’s Bees-Holland-Hammond council leadership triumvirate of proven incompetents. They even appear to have bothered to … Continue reading →

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BB Roadwatch: "a touch of class"

Posted on October 15, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

As promised for Blog Action Day . . . Loudmouth Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary, that privately educated and over-privileged man of the people, has had a crack at campaigners fighting the plans to expand Bristol Airport in The Cancer. “They … Continue reading →

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Housing: Crisis? What Crisis?

Posted on October 8, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Compare and contrast: Bristol Evening Cancer Friday 5 October 2007 “I’ve got a friend who has three children living in a one-bedroom council flat. She’s been waiting for a new property for months but can only watch as more Somali’s … Continue reading →

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"Fifteen minutes south" (Final cut)

Posted on October 1, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

(I think that’s enough Lake Shore gags using their pop art machine. Ed.) Any complaints regarding the crude stereotyping of Hartcliffe and its inhabitants to the usual email address please. (Cartoon by Evelyn Post. Evelyn Post is The Bristol Blogger’s … Continue reading →

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“A utopia for workers and bosses alike”

Posted on September 30, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

This piece originally appeared on the Bash the Rich blog. Fashionable Manchester-based property developers Urban Splash have recently pitched up in Bristol where they’re trying to bring their marketing-heavy gentrification plans for loft living yuppies to Hartcliffe, a working class … Continue reading →

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"Fifteen minutes south" (A bigger Urban Splash)

Posted on September 29, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The Bristol Blogger with their resident cartoonist Evelyn Post today present a special limited edition post to celebrate the first apartments going on sale off-plan at Urban Splash’s Lake Shore development in Hartcliffe (Blogger Passim). (Cartoon by Evelyn Post. Evelyn … Continue reading →

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