Bristol City Council

Reports

Bristol City Council slapped with warning over poor performance on freedom of information requests

The local authority has been criticised for years over its failure to responding to FOI requests within 20-day timescales.

Alex Seabrook
Alex Seabrook (Local Democracy Reporter)

Future of Cities

Image of a modern tram travelling along a narrow street in Bordeaux (credit: Per Karlsson / Alamy)

Trams, or an underground? As Bristol weighs its public transport options, can it learn from across the Channel?

Steve Melia
Steve Melia

Reports

How local ‘health hubs’ could encourage more women to get checked for breast cancer

Steph Cullen
Steph Cullen

Future of Cities

Bristol’s flood defences are being pushed to their limit. What is the city’s long-term plan, and will it be enough?

The council is searching for an extra £100 million to fund future flood defences to protect low-lying areas of the city. While residents call for greater action, the Cable looks across the North Sea to Rotterdam for inspiration.

Billy Stockwell
Billy Stockwell

Reports

Bristol won’t bring in parking levy to fund transport as council forced to publish report

Alex Seabrook
Alex Seabrook (Local Democracy Reporter) and Adam Postans (Local Democracy Reporter)

Area in Focus

‘My anxiety levels are off the scale’: Tempers fray as student houses multiply on estate

Billy Stockwell
Billy Stockwell

Voices

Bristol Harbour boat dwellers face harsh winter as council bans stoves

People living in boats on Bristol harbour are locked in a legal dispute with the council after it hiked mooring fees. Now, new licences outlawing the types of heaters used on most boats could make life even harder.

George Colwey

Reports

Judge orders Bristol City Council to disclose secret report after freedom of information battle

A Green councillor has accused the council of being scared of scrutiny after trying for 18 months to get hold of a feasibility report into the idea of a workplace parking levy.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Reports

A CGI image of the proposed Redcatch Quarter, which would replace the Broadwalk Shopping Centre in south Bristol.

South Bristol shopping centre will be knocked down after planning councillors’ shock U-turn

Opposition councillors slammed a decision to redevelop the Broadwalk Shopping Centre after a developer said it could deliver extra affordable homes there – although no promises were made.

Alex Seabrook
Alex Seabrook (Local Democracy Reporter)

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked, with local political fixer Kelvin Blake taking a peek inside the city’s Labour party machine

Former councillor, now Labour campaign manager Kelvin Blake offers an inside perspective on the workings of power in our city.

Neil Maggs Adam Cantwell-Corn
Neil Maggs, Adam Cantwell-Corn and George Colwey

Reports

‘We want them to listen to us’: fear and anger in Somali community over liveable neighbourhood plans

The council claims the plans to restrict through-traffic in parts of east Bristol were co-designed with local people, but some are angry about the consultation so far and feel the scheme is being imposed on them.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked, with councillor Christine Townsend on taking on the Merchant Venturers over educational inequality

Green councillor and education rights campaigner Christine Townsend on fighting discriminatory school selection practices and the prospect of taking power in Bristol.

Neil Maggs Adam Cantwell-Corn
Neil Maggs, George Colwey and Adam Cantwell-Corn
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