Tag Archives: Square Peg

This greenwashed and unpleasant land

Posted on November 10, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

If you’re at a loose end tomorrow you might like to pop down the Watershed where for a hundred fifty quid you can attend ‘This green and pleasant land: a one day conference’. It’s nothing less than “a candid look … Continue reading →

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RED TROUSER GATE: local government policy and democracy: a post structuralist interpretive approach

Posted on November 8, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Time to return to the council’s latest response to Vowlsie’s complaint. Having had to cave in to the inevitable and admit the Railway Path land is covered by the Parks and Green Spaces Strategy as the Blogger pointed out over … Continue reading →

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***RED TROUSER GATE FLASH***

Posted on November 7, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Bristol City Council – to use their own strangulated bureaucratise – are to take “the opportunity to fully address the issue of the actions of David Bishop,” the Blogger learns tonight. Although quite why they can’t just address the actions … Continue reading →

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RED TROUSER GATE: whose land is it anyway?

Posted on November 7, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Among the many treasures to be found in the council’s FoI release on the Railway Path land sell-off are some emails that reveal the huge influence of Square Peg’s large corporate agents – such as solicitors Davies and Partners and … Continue reading →

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RED TROUSER GATE: They don't know what they're doing pt. 1,356

Posted on November 5, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

You can’t, of course, have a full-blown political scandal without a ‘gate’ suffix and logo. Bristol Indymedia have gone for ‘Bishopgate’ but at the Blogger we’ve settled for ‘Red Trouser Gate’ and a rather fetching logo. Now on to the … Continue reading →

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All the news that's fit to print?

Posted on November 4, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

No sign yet of the Evening Cancer publishing anything about the David Bishop Greenbank land sale scandal. No doubt the fact that their Saturday columnist, Bristol’s most pompous man, George Ferguson is intimately involved in the scandal is entirely coincidental … Continue reading →

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The magical effect of multi-millionaire Merchant Venturers on Bristol City Council

Posted on November 1, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

If you want to see in close-up how Bristol City Council operates one rule for normal people and another for its multi-millionaire property developer clients, take a look a look at the documents they’ve published about their sell-off of our … Continue reading →

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It's chaos, wrapped in a cock-up, inside a shambles …

Posted on October 23, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Was it only two months ago that the Bristol Blogger pointed out that the sale of city council land on the Railway Path at Greenbank contravened the council’s freshly minted Parks and Green Spaces Strategy? Indeed it was and now … Continue reading →

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The X-Factor, city council style

Posted on October 21, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Alas, we must report that despite mystery parks Manager “Mr X” being drafted in to deal with Vowlsie’s now legendary complaint to the council, there’s no sign of the answers he was promised by this evening. Even the involvement of … Continue reading →

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They don't know what they're doing! Pt 3

Posted on October 17, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Bish at his desk with attentive middle managers (still from Jan Ormondroyd’s 2008 production of ‘No Questions Please, We’re Incompetent’) It’s a competitive field, but I think my Bristol City Council story of the year is shaping up to be … Continue reading →

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