Bristol City Council

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Opinion

‘Bristol’s council housing failings are shocking – but are just the tip of a massive national iceberg’

Decades of underinvestment in council homes by central government have led to unacceptable living standards for tenants, in our city and across the country. A national solution is needed.

Paul Smith
Paul Smith (Elim Housing Association)

Reports

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Early failures by council in Bristol Beacon revamp cost millions, report finds

Adam Postans (Local Democracy Reporter)

Reports

Watchdog finds ‘serious failings’ after concluding council does not know what state its housing is in

Alex Turner
Alex Turner
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Reports

‘This is long overdue’: campaigning high-rise residents promised action to improve their homes

After years of living in crumbling, leaking housing, and putting pressure on the council to take action, people in neglected blocks of flats at St Jude's hope change is finally coming.

Alex Turner
Alex Turner
A cartoon of a voter putting a voting slip into a ballot box. Opposite is an electoral map of Bristol, where the Green Party won the most seats.

Podcasts

Listen: The Debrief – what does Bristol’s Green surge mean for the city, and what next for the council under a new committee system?

Matty Edwards George Colwey Priyanka Raval
Matty Edwards, George Colwey and Priyanka Raval

Local Elections 2024

Green surge secures historic victory at Bristol council elections

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Local Elections 2024

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From activists to councillors: the local election candidates taking the plunge into party politics

With a new committee system about to give councillors more power, the Cable spoke to some of the new faces hoping to take their desire for change to City Hall. 

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Local Elections 2024

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Emma Edwards on making local politics less toxic, and whether the Greens are ready for power

Growing support for the Green Party could well see them running the council beyond May's local elections, but are they ready to make the tricky transition from the main local opposition to being in charge?

Neil Maggs George Colwey
Neil Maggs and George Colwey

Podcasts

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Tory leader Mark Weston on how the council has waged ‘war on motorists’ and wasted millions

The councillor of nearly 20 years discusses the Tories' miserable national polling, the millions of pounds of public money wasted by the council, and the cultural divides between Bristol's inner city and suburbs.

Neil Maggs George Colwey
Neil Maggs and George Colwey

Local Elections 2024

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Jos Clark on ‘bloody rude’ Marvin, looming Labour thrashing and Lib Dem comeback

The experienced local councillor, who is a strong critic of Marvin Rees and the mayoral system, talks libraries, Bristol's failing bus services and her prediction that Labour will take a kicking after eight years in power.

Neil Maggs George Colwey
Neil Maggs and George Colwey

Local Elections 2024

As Labour and the Greens battle it out, how do their policies stack up?

Labour and the Greens are likely to be the two largest parties after Bristol’s local elections on 2 May, so we decided to delve beneath the rhetoric to see what they’d actually change.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Area in Focus

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How St Paul’s residents fought to make the Malcolm X Centre a space for the community

The Malcolm X Centre on Ashley Road is one of Bristol’s most well-known and treasured community venues. What’s less well remembered is the struggle local people went through to lay the foundations for that status.

Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins
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