Category: News & Events

Our friends at Victoria Park have sent an update. Please get involved if you can. ____________________________________________________________ Here are 3 ways in which you could help VPAG improve the park: 1. Please pass the Survey to anyone you know who uses the park, to get the views of as many people as possible.[…]

It’s Your Neighbourhood is a free scheme run by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) to recognise and value the work of local community groups in improving green spaces, be it a park, community garden, alleyway, verge or stream. Almost any outdoor site being looked after by the local community qualifies for the[…]

The Totterdown Square gardening club meets on the 2nd Monday of the month at 2pm at the beds on Oxford Street/Totterdown Square. New members are always welcome. This month we have planted some primulas to brighten up one of the beds while the bulbs we planted in the Autumn are[…]

TRESA was pleased to see another detailed objection to the current proposal for Mead Street. The objection is not to the principle of development but to the proposed height and form which is completely inappropriate for this location, and is being brought forward ahead of emerging proposals for the whole[…]

Anyone who has lived in Totterdown for any length of time will have spent at least a few quiet moments up at ‘Zone A’ on Wells Road. There is a certain calm about this small piece of greenery with its fruit trees and bushes, a community mosaic, wildlife and picnic[…]

Totterdown Traders Quiz TRESA is pleased to start the year by working with local businesses on the Totterdown Traders Quiz. Look out for questions displayed on A3 posters in the windows of participating businesses. All the questions are also listed below. We hope you will join in the fun and[…]

TRESA was pleased to see this detailed objection to the Mead Street/York Road development, from a knowledgeable local resident, which we have reproduced in full below. You can learn more about, and object to the proposal, here: 21/06878/F | Mixed-use redevelopment including 244 residential (C3) units and 655 sq.m. of[…]

TRESA has submitted their objection to the current planning application at Mead Street, on the old Bart Spices site. Details of the planning application, for towers up to 11-storeys (ground+10) are here: 21/06878/F | Mixed-use redevelopment including 244 residential (C3) units and 655 sq.m. of commercial floorspace (Class E) on[…]

TRESA has set up a petition to highlight the threat to iconic views of the Totterdown escarpment from current proposals to build tall blocks of flats along Mead Street (the current light industrial area below Richmond Road and Bellevue Terrace). The link to the petition is here: https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/save-iconic-views-of-the-totterdown-escarpment?share=626be00a-09bd-44c9-9150-4511c11e3c97&source=&utm_source= The petition[…]

Ben Barker reports below. To join the circulation list email: MyWildBedminster@virginmedia.com Recent Otter Training and Survey on Pigeonhouse StreamBack in Nov ’21 an otter was found dead on Hartcliffe Way. This was along the wildlife corridor between Novers Hill (Western Slopes) and Crox Bottom. The otter was a small male juvenile[…]