Details of three important Bristol City Council surveys are below.
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Annual budget consultation now open – share your views on council tax
Tell us what you think about proposed changes to council tax as part of the council’s annual budget setting for the next financial year.
The Covid-19 pandemic has seen many more people needing council support, which has impacted our finances. This includes help with council tax, business rates, business grants, providing food packages to people in need, food vouchers to children, and emergency accommodation and homelessness.
We aim to avoid cutting any essential services however council tax may need to increase by a small amount to ensure these can continue to run. There is information on our Council Tax Reduction scheme on our website.
Give us your views on the options by completing the questionnaire by 28 December.
For alternative formats, including paper copies, email consultation@bristol.gov.uk or call 0117 922 2848.
Bristol Traffic Clean Air Zone – new deadline 13th December
Air pollution has been a problem in Bristol and many UK cities for a long time. Bristol City Council has a moral and legal duty to ensure the city’s air quality meets legal limits of air pollution in the shortest possible time.
We need an approach to improving air quality that does not compound the challenges already facing citizens and businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. The council’s preferred approach is to encourage citizens and businesses to sustain the recent, less polluting travel behaviour that we have seen, and we plan to support this with some further modifications to roads around the city that make it easier to walk, cycle or use public transport.
We would like your views on two new options for improving air quality, which would be needed if people’s travel behaviours return to how they were before and traffic builds up and pollution increases again above legal limits. Both new options would involve charging the most polluting vehicles to drive into central Bristol.
We also want to know if you would be prepared to change how you travel into central Bristol if this would mean there is no need for a charging clean air zone.
We want to hear from as many people as possible from all parts of Bristol.
If you would like a paper copy or the information in an alternative format please email transport.engagement@bristol.gov.uk or call 0117 9036449 and leave a message on the answerphone. Alternatively, you can write to: CAZ, Transport Engagement Team, PO BOX 3399, 100 Temple Street, Bristol, BS1 9NE
Please let us have your opinions by 13th December 2020.
Bristol City Council would like to hear your views on the Bristol Avon Flood Strategy.
Bristol City Council and the Environment Agency have been working together to deliver a long-term plan to better protect homes and businesses from flooding from the River Avon.
The preferred approach to reducing the risk of flooding is to create new flood defences or raise the level of existing flood defences in phases along lower sections of the River Avon riverbanks. This is based on extensive technical studies that examined the different options.
Defences would be designed to be in keeping with the local area, and would look at possibilities to improve public spaces which could be by providing new green spaces, better access to the river, enhanced heritage features, and improved transport connections.
To find out more and give your views on our proposals, visit: www.bristol.gov.uk/bristolavonflood
To request a paper copy of the survey, please call 07775 115 909 or email bristolavonflood@bristol.gov.uk
The closing date for comments is 20th December 2020.