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EBLN: IT’S CLASS WAR!

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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

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‘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?

HUMAN WAREHOUSING JOY

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Derby Street Car Park
Derby Street car park: enough for eight homes?

Plans for eight “temporary accommodation pods” for homeless people in Derby Street Car Park, Redfield have been enthusiastically waved through by councillors on the planning committee bravely tackling ‘The Housing Crisis’ by supporting any old shit for the poor.

“Each unit would be 2.7 metres high, 7.9 metres deep and 3.8 metres wide, providing a total of 24 square metres of floorspace,” explains the planning report. That’s 13 square metres below the Tories’ ungenerous 37 square metre National Space Standard for one bed accommodation then.

Planning officers dodged around this glaring issue by agreeing “the units are small” and then claiming they “offer a better alternative to the proposed residents”. Better than what isn’t stated.

Officers also said that as tenancies via the Salvation Army are limited to two years, the accommodation is temporary and space standards don’t apply. How temporary it will be remains to be seen. Especially as Bristol’s planning department appears to have no means of enforcing their own planning conditions any more.

Why fewer units couldn’t be built that met minimum National Space Standards wasn’t a matter explored by planning officers or councillors.

SMASH & GRAB IN EAST BRISTOL

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The sun’s been a bit been beating down on Bristol recently – but be warned… It might soon be beneath the shadow of the WRECKING BALL if profiteering developers threatening some of the charms of Victorian East Bristol get their way.

First under threat from demolition is the old Ebenezer Chapel on Midland Road in St Philip’s. A friendly and familiar face greeting passers-by at the end of the Bath-Bristol cy- clepath, Bristol’s first ‘Primitive Methodist’ chapel has been around since 1849, but now FACES THE CHOP thanks to a landlord and developers who want to replace it with some boring, globally uniform apartments.

Ebenezer chapel

Ebenezer’s good – for demolition

All of the original fittings have already been ripped out to sell on, with Bristol City Council claiming it’s powerless to prevent the chapel’s destruction. Locals, backed by the Civic Society have pledged to fight on.

Next up for the ARCHITECTURAL KNACKER’S is Avonvale Board School in Redfield, now home to BCC Children’s and Young People’s Services. There are dastardly plans to replace this school, which has years left in it, with a ‘bespoke’ modern building with a much shorter life expectatancy.

Built in 1898-9 by Victorian architect Herber J. Jones – who in his time notched up a few Methodist chapels of his own – its head was once Thomas MacNamara, one of the first teachers to become a government minister.

So why not give the kids of the future a school with a bit of history they can learn about – instead of condemning them to study in an identikit box to satisfy greedy developers and weak-kneed planners who have forgotten the battles to save old Bristol from the bureaucrats in the decades after the War.

We all know the Regency and Victorian heritage of Clifton or Southville wouldn’t be flattened and replaced.

And it shouldn’t happen in working-class East Bristol either!