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Tag Archives: Square Peg
Give us a C! Give us an O! Give us an N! Give us a dodgy ginger minger planning boss!
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
RED TROUSERGATE: land still not sold, another bloody CONsultation in the offing …
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
Joined-up government
Anyone see this in today’s Cancer? Plans to start modernising Bristol’s primary school provision are under threat. Projects in the first phase of the council’s citywide Primary Review are facing pressures because of rising costs and falling income. Kate Campion, … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol and Bath Railway Path, Bristol East, Bristol Evening Post, Conservatives, Developments, Easton, Education, Labour Party, Lib Dems, Local government, Planning, Politics
Tagged Chocolate Factory, Development Control (South and East) Committee, John Goulandris, Square Peg
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RED TROUSERGATE: favours for the rich
And so it comes to pass. Our Through the Looking Glass council does it again. Now they’ve managed to grant planning permission to build a tower block on their own protected park land. Public land that’s not for sale; never … Continue reading
RED TROUSERGATE: Bishop proposing multi-million public money favour to ol' Red Trousers!
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 Chocolate Factory, David Bishop, Development Control (South and East) Committee, George Ferguson, Square Peg
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RED TROUSERGATE: endgame?
After a firm kick up the backside from new Lib Dem transport supremo, Jon Rogers, council officers have finally published the long-awaited Railway Path consultation. And what a result! It’s General Public 6 Red Trousered Developers 0. Here’s the consultation’s … Continue reading
Posted in Bristol, Bristol and Bath Railway Path, Bristol East, Developments, Easton, Environment, Housing, Lib Dems, Local government, Merchant Venturers, Politics
Tagged Chocolate Factory, David Bishop, George Ferguson, Jon Rogers, Parks and Green Spaces Strategy Board, Parks Forum, Square Peg
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Laming
It’s about child protection really, but the latest Laming report (pdf) published this week makes some interesting comments in a general sense about well-paid town hall managers: The time is long past when the most junior employee should carry the … Continue reading
RED TROUSERGATE: shambles, complete and utter
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
Lost and found? Or buried?
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 Chocolate Factory, Connecting Bristol, David Bishop, George Ferguson, South Bristol Digital Neighbourhoods, Square Peg
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Lost and found
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