Category Archives: Environment

Tesco Ashton Gate: the land is ours!

Posted on September 6, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Looks like the cover’s blown on the Lib Dems’ claim that the Bristol City stadium and Ashton Gate Tesco developments are purely planning matters to be dealt with by their hand-picked team … Continue reading →

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Fw: Bristolians Against Fluoridation: press/media launch

Posted on August 24, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Vowlsie forwards a picture of himself and his entry for the longest press release in recorded history. Here it is in its entirety: Press release: Bristolians Against Fluoridation (BAF) Announcing the launch of Bristolians Against Fluoridation (BAF). Following preliminary meetings … Continue reading →

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Give us a C! Give us an O! Give us an N! Give us a dodgy ginger minger planning boss!

Posted on August 21, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Put it all together and what’ve we got? CONsultation … Oh look it’s Friday, must be time for another CONsultation about the stupid ‘Cycle Houses’ on the Bristol and Bath Railway Path nobody wants. The new Lib Dem administration – … Continue reading →

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

Posted on August 16, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

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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World Cup footBALLS: jolly news

Posted on August 14, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

By our Chief Football Correspondent, Sell Outter See the Evening Cancer on Tuesday? Unfortunately its World Cup “fluff” piece of the day wasn’t considered worth putting on their internet site … But essentially it was about a World Cup jolly … Continue reading →

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LEAKED DOCUMENT!!! GOSW instructs councils to to give the RSS "considerable weight" when considering planning applications

Posted on August 12, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Despite not being finalised and being the subject of a legal challenge, the Government Office of the South West (GOSW) has written to Council Chief Execs and Chief Planning Officers instructing them to give the controversial South West Regional Spacial … Continue reading →

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BLACK (cloud) WATCH: council cash news

Posted on August 11, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

A speedy reply to Woodsy’s Freedom of Information request to Bristol City Council regarding their expenditure on Victoria Park’s temporary roofless shed, ‘The Black Cloud‘, arrives on the ever-dependable ‘What Do They Know?‘ site and finds the council crunching urgently … Continue reading →

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Certainly not spelling city are we?

Posted on July 27, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger
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Spirit of the age?

Posted on July 26, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Some wealthy and painfully middle class hippies – sorry, “artists” – built a big shed (surely a “remarkable new temporary structure? Ed), cheerfully called The Black Cloud, in Victoria Park yesterday. So locals now have a weird state-sponsored miserabilist temple … Continue reading →

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RED TROUSERGATE: land still not sold, another bloody CONsultation in the offing …

Posted on June 25, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

The Red Trousergate saga continues … David Bishop’s dodgy deal with George Ferguson last year to sell off protected public park land on the Bristol and Bath Railway Path still rumbles on. These are some questions and answers from tonight’s … Continue reading →

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