EAST BRISTOL LIVEABLE NEIGHBOURHOOD LATEST:
IT AIN’T HAPPENING!
WORKING CLASS BARTON HILL KICKS MIDDLE CLASS GREEN ARSE AS DERANGED SCHEME IS HALTED BY PROTESTORS
‘CORRUPT CESSPIT’
In a packed field, the best question to Full Council in December came from Jamie Bolley.
He asked for a breakdown of EBLN costs to be published “so the public can be reassured that the council isn’t the corrupt cesspit that it is appearing to be!”
The council’s expensive PR team aren’t working are they?
The gift that keeps on giving
Posted on Facebook in December:
“Last night I had to call an ambulance for my husband. I thought he was having a stroke. The ambulance didn’t know how to get from Salisbury Street back to the main road and had to double back twice due to road closures and parked cars. They only got to hospital before me in the car because they were on blues and twos. I left after them. The ambulance reported that it’s not the first time they’ve been delayed. Someone is going to die if this crazy scheme doesn’t stop.”
FAKE CONSULTATION
The wheels have come off claims by Bristol City Council officers that their public consultation for the EBLN was some sort of top quality engagement process.
Transport Committee Chair “Dick” Ed Plowden has had to admit, after being asked publicly, that one of the council’s community group consultees – The Barton Hill Disabilities Group – was entirely fictitious. Apparently invented by dodgy transport officers to tick some boxes.
Lo and Behold! One of the main groups now objecting to the EBLN are disabled people struggling to get out of their homes and around their own neighbourhood.
Who would have ever guessed?
LAWFARE?
Council officers thought they were on to a big winner on the streets of Barton Hill back in January.
They requested the coppers remove local anti-EBLN protestors from the road for ‘obstructing the highway’ and preventing council contractors installing their liveable neighbourhood street furniture crap.
“Er,” came the response from Avon and Somerset’s finest, “they aren’t ‘obstructing the highway’ because the council has closed the road to carry out its works. Protestors are doing nothing illegal. They can’t obstruct a closed highway.”
Ain’t the law a bitch?
ONE RULE FOR US: ROAD BLOCKS
Green Windmill Councillor, Lisa Stone, is demanding that Hereford Street in her ward is made two-way again after being turned into a one way street as part of the Bedminster Green regeneration shitshow.
She also complains that the Hereford Road one-way scheme was implemented after plans were drawn up after a consultation which only mentioned changes to Whitehouse Road and Whitehouse Lane.
Shame Councillor Stone and her Green colleagues remain silent on the concerns of residents suffering in the East Bristol Liveable neighbourhood where numerous roads have been blocked and made one-way after poor quality consultation with residents.
One rule for them?