development

Reports

Totterdown residents react after councillors approve controversial high-rises

The high-rise plans for the former Bart’s Ingredients site on York Road were approved by councillors, despite planning officers criticising the scheme and recommending it be refused.

Joe Skirkowski

Features

‘The advisory group on the Western Harbour development needs to be much more diverse’

Amid concerns about the group set up to advise on the controversial Cumberland Basin development, we spoke to chair John Savage, and local residents and councillors, about representation, diversity and accountability.

Joe Banks

Features

‘We are losing so much’: Local businesses and Cable readers react to plans to redevelop Galleries shopping centre

Most readers agree the shopping centre needs a lift, but many raised questions about whether new proposals for its future will help serve the city’s most urgent needs.

Billy Stockwell
Billy Stockwell

Features

Western Harbour development treading water

After nearly five years on the drawing board due to major criticisms from local residents, Marvin Rees’ vision for a revived Cumberland Basin could still be a decade away.

Jess Connett
Jess Connett

Reports

Save our view, say Totterdown residents

Residents say they're not against affordable housing, but that developers need to consult locals more.

Joe Skirkowski

Reports

Residents slam ‘serious flaw’ in planning process in campaign to save threatened trees

Crucial questions remain unanswered in the ongoing fight to protect M32 Maples, including who owns the trees.

Lorna Stephenson
Lorna Stephenson

Edition 19

The contested future of St Philip’s Marsh

A forgotten part of central Bristol is about to transform – but in whose interests?

Lorna Stephenson Matty Edwards
Lorna Stephenson and Matty Edwards

Reports

People block developers profiting from Bristol’s housing crisis

Campaign against the Chocolate Factory development in Greenbank kicks back into action as developers begin work – minus any affordable housing.

Jenny Stringer

Reports

Iconic Bristol Bearpit billboard removed

The battle to reshape the Bearpit took a new turn today as the council removed Bristol’s only non-corporate billboard.

The Bristol Cable
The Bristol Cable

Ideas and Action

Baling out the housing crisis

Could straw and timber houses on street corners be the future of urban development?

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

City

The community razed to the ground for a road that was never built

In the 1960s the council demolished most of Totterdown, in a planning disaster still remembered by Bristolians today.

Koel Mukherjee
Koel Mukherjee

City

The Bearpit: contested hub of struggles for Bristol

Bristol’s infamous Bearpit has undergone an image change in recent years – but rising homelessness means it’s now a site of conflict between wealthier incomers and some of the city’s most vulnerable people.

Alec Saelens
Alec Saelens
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