Matty Edwards
Bristol councillors set to back rent controls and local database of rogue landlords
Councillors will vote next week on a motion setting out a range of interventions in the increasingly unaffordable private rented sector, including a database to name and shame the worst landlords, as highlighted by the Cable in 2022.
Lessons from Lille, as Bristol explores rent controls to tackle its housing affordability crisis
As Bristol prepares to ask the government for extra powers to bring in rent controls, the Cable investigates what can be learned from across the channel in France, and in Scotland where reform is already in motion.
Community support for Castle Park development was overstated, claim members of local group
Plans to develop the derelict site around St Mary Le Port in central Bristol were approved by councillors, but questions are now being raised about how the views of local residents were used during the process.
Bristol mental health patients are still being sent miles from home. How are local services trying to eliminate the damaging practice?
The city’s mental health trust is failing to stop out of area placements, but it's an uphill battle amid high demand for treatment, limited funding and staffing shortages.
