Category: News & Events

The message below is from Zero West and Transport for Greater Bristol Alliance. _____________________________ Please pass this invitation on to everyone in your networks, especially those who are frustrated with Bristol and the West of England’s transport. Everyone is welcome! Let’s make 2021 a year for positive change! We are holding four meetings, focused on[…]

Courtesy of : – ClientEarth Communications Air pollution has been far above legal limits in the UK for 10 years and Bristolians have suffered the consequences. Bristol has been identified as the place where air pollution has increased the most since the first lockdown. If no action is taken, the[…]

The expansion of Bristol Airport was debated at a Full Council meeting of Bristol City Council on 8 December and a ‘golden motion’, proposed by the Green Party and amended by Labour, was approved (see below). ________________ Approved motion Full Council notes that: • Bristol City Council has led the[…]

Healthier Together looking to gather insights on mass vaccinations in response to COVID-19 To help plan and prepare for the COVID-19 vaccination programme, Healthier Together is running a survey to understand people’s thoughts and feelings about the potential COVID-19 vaccines and vaccines in general. The survey takes only five minutes[…]

The BS5 Secondary Education Forum have expressed concerns about the delay in providing a new secondary school at Silverthorne Lane, St Philips. The school is also of interest to Totterdown parents and so we have reproduced (below) an article from their Facebook page @BS5secondaryeducationforum _________________________________ Secondary places shortfall – BCC[…]

This is obviously outside of the Totterdown area, but Millennium Square is of importance to people across the city. Some people have expressed excitement about the proposed Arc at Millennium Square but below we have reproduced the concerns of Bristol’s City Design Group which need to be given serious consideration[…]

Action for Balanced Communities (ABC) will be asking questions and making a statement about the Houses of Multiple Occupation (HMOs) supplementary planning document (SPD) at the Communities Scrutiny Committee meeting on 7th December (see below). This policy is will be VERY important for Totterdown as the University of Bristol campus is developed[…]

Bristol moves to Tier 3: Very High alert On Thursday 26 November, the Prime Minister announced the tiers local authorities will go into when the national lockdown restrictions are lifted on Wednesday 2 December. It has been confirmed that Bristol will move into Tier 3. This will come into effect[…]

Tier 3: Very High alert Bristol – and therefore Totterdown – will be uder Tier 3 restrictions when lock-down is lifted. Full details of Teir 3, from the government website, are listed below ____________________________ This is for areas with a very high or very rapidly rising level of infections, where[…]

Totterdown residents who attended the exhibition at Temple Meads where initial plans were revealed for a new secondary school at Silverthorne Lane, may be disappointed to learn that the plans are subject to considerable delays. A letter from the Department of Education to Bristol City Council outlines some of the[…]