Features

The issues bubbling beneath the Temple Quarter development

The land around Temple Meads is slated to be Bristol's biggest regeneration project, but how concerning are the development's flood risk warnings?

Alex King
Alex King

Reports

Parents and staff warn of post-Covid nursery placement shortage

Staffing shortages are forcing nurseries in the city to close or scale back services.

Alex Turner
Alex Turner

Features

‘No-one should control this land. Everyone should have a say over it.’

With the issue of access to green space amplified by the pandemic, can the act of trespass provide a way of reconnecting with nature and challenging the privatisation of land in England?

Jonathan Eldridge
Jonathan Eldridge

Reports

High rise tenants kept in the dark about fire safety issues

Carolina House tenants only discovered potential safety problems with the building when they took steps to buy their flat off the council.

Billy Stockwell
Billy Stockwell

Reports

Campaigners face uphill battle to save two BS5 pubs from redevelopment

From the Redfield residents trying to preserve a historic cinema to the Barton Hill activists just wanting to keep their last local, there are common frustrations for communities trying to hang on to the places that matter to them.

Alex Turner
Alex Turner

Callouts

The Galleries shopping centre

What do you think about plans to redevelop the Galleries?

Plans to completely redevelop the Galleries are being drawn up. But what do you want to happen to that space?

What do you think
The Bristol Cable
The Bristol Cable

Features

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.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

This Week in Bristol

This week in Bristol: Spat over council housing commission

In the news this week, the launch of a council commission tasked with exploring solutions to Bristol’s housing crisis has sparked a bitter spat between...

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Reports

A fountain in front of City Hall in Bristol, a curved building

Calls for urgent independent inquiry into Bristol council surveillance of SEND parents

Documents leaked last week revealed council staff had been collating and sharing social media posts and personal wedding photos of parents of children with special needs.

Alex Seabrook
Alex Seabrook (Local Democracy Reporter)

Reports

Victory for sex workers as council votes to keep strip clubs open in Bristol

Years of fraught campaigning draw to a close, with a move performers say will protect them from being forced into more dangerous work in less regulated workplaces.

Aphra Evans
Aphra Evans

Area in Focus

Could Filwood Broadway finally get the cash boost it needs?

The south Bristol high street might be getting a much-needed makeover. But locals say they should be consulted again because the plans are out of date.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Reports

Council scraps funding support for special needs charity amid surveillance row

The council is expected to face questions this week over the surveillance operation of parents with disabled children, but it denies that the removal of funding support for a charity involved in the row is related.

Alex Seabrook
Alex Seabrook (Local Democracy Reporter)
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