Category: News & Events

Bristol is required to submit a scheme that would implement a Clean Air Zone, which is a specific location where action is taken to improve air quality. To reduce exposure to air pollution, including nitrogen dioxide which comes from car fumes, the zone enforces restrictions and offers incentives to encourage[…]

1.       Applications for the second and final round of the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme are now open; full details on eligibility and timescales can be found here. 2.       The UK Government has recently updated its guidance on making workplaces Covid-secure. The page includes a tool to help you find the most relevant advice; more here. And access the[…]

Because of concerns about the Covid-19 pandemic, Totterdown’s Front Garden Festival and Great Get Together were cancelled this year. As with the Spring issue of Talk of Totterdown newsletter, TRESA directors decided not to post garden awards through residents’ postboxes – we did not want to do anything that could[…]

Say No to the Mow Various local groups are seeking to make Bristol Parks less mower happy. Short grass is fine for football and perhaps a picnic, but isn’t much use to wild creatures and flowers. The objective is to leave at least a few bits of every green space uncut for[…]

1.      Bristol City Council has launched a new regular email for businesses in Bristol, and it is their intention to merge Items of Interest with it. The last edition of Items of Interest is therefore scheduled for week beginning 31 August, with the first issue of the newly merged newsletter scheduled for week beginning 7 September. 2.       As[…]

A city-wide campaign has started to get Bristol City Council to work with local people to create ‘Liveable Neighbourhoods’ across Bristol, and the campaign needs you! Liveable Neighbourhoods are residential neighbourhoods that contain traffic filters such as bollards or planters. The filters stop cars, vans and lorries from the bordering main roads using[…]

Case numbers in Bristol remain relatively low Following the Prime Minister’s announcement of a delay in further easing restrictions in England and the introduction of further measures in the north of England, Christina Gray, Bristol’s Director of Public Health, has issued a statement on the situation in Bristol: “New reports[…]

Liveable Neighbourhoods (aka Low-traffic Neighbourhoods or Healthy Streets) These are quite a hot topic in Bristol at the moment, mainly among people interested in transport issues, but there are implications for wildlife too. One of these is the likely lowering of pollution levels in the atmosphere. High levels of chemicals and particles[…]

1.       In line with UK Government guidance, we are in the process of contacting eligible retail, hospitality and leisure businesses from across the city to let them know they can apply for a full business rates discount. To be eligible for the discount, retail, hospitality and leisure businesses must occupy their premises and[…]

Totterdown resident (and Chair of TRESA) Geoff, wrote to Mayor Marvin Rees about progress on Bristol’s Clean Air plans. Mayor Rees explained that a small number of roads are key to achieving compliance and the team are considering radical structural changes to achieve compliance as quickly as possible. This includes[…]