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Category Archives: Local government
History as bunk
A brilliant critique of the Museum of Bristol project and its embarrassing heritage-lite approach to the city’s history has appeared on the Festival of Ideas website. The piece, by ‘Tetchy Steve’, is a response to a talk at the festival … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol, Culture, Developments, Harbourside, Local government
Tagged Adrian Tinniswood, Festival of Ideas, Museum of Bristol
There are 5 comments
The million pound merry-go-round
Trebles all round! New city council chief exec, ‘Junket’ Jan Ormondroyd, finally makes her opening gambit down at the Council House with a deckchairs-on-the-Titantic-style senior management reshuffle accompanied by some very generous inflation-busting pay hikes indeed for the same old … Continue reading
A trust for the Railway Path?
Charlie Bolton writes in the comments: Hi everyone I have seen Paul Smith suggest in a couple of places that we pursue the idea of setting up a trust to take ownership/control of the path. (I believe this was the … Continue reading
And the end of another era …
by Keren Suchecki This is my last Double Devolution column – I’ll be leaving HWCP in a few weeks time. I was the first employee eight years ago in an empty shop without the luxury of a chair, let alone … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol, Hartcliffe, Local government
Tagged Keren Suchecki, New Start
There are 4 comments
Report from last night’s Council Meeting
By Chris Hutt from the Comments It all started so well, with Charlie Bolton’s original motion getting beefed up by a Lib-Dem amendment which he accepted. Railway Path supporters cheered and clapped. It looked for a few moments like we … Continue reading
From the comments …
Get out writes … I hear that the most serious concern within the leadership of Bristol Labour and Tory Parties right now is not the cycle path at all. By the sound of rumblings in the Council House the uppermost … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol, Conservatives, Labour Party, Lib Dems, Local government, Politics
Tagged Helen Holland, Jon Rogers, Richard Eddy
There are 5 comments
Plug.
Oh. And our man wandering around the Council House not doing very much passed the press office earlier and says Bristol City Council are preparing a press release about the path this very day … Ho! Ho! Ho!
Posted in Bristol, Developments, Environment, Local government, WESP
Tagged Bristol and Bath Railway Path
There are 45 comments
Prefabricated henhouse news
Right then. A big thanks to all our Bristol City Council readers who’ve sent in Jan Ormondroyd’s welcome message. Here it is: Dear Colleague I hope you have had a good Easter break and that despite the weather you had … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol, Education, Local government
Tagged Derek Pickup, Jan Ormondroyd
There are 15 comments
What the hell is this meant to mean?
From Lib Dem, Councillor Emma Bagley’s blog – translations welcome: What became apparent towards the end of this topic was that was going to be no stretch target (aka a performance indicator) under the new local area agreement. No stretch … Continue reading