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A white-painted tower block at night, with cars parked at the base.

Cable Community News

Bristol raises £10k for Barton House residents in 48hrs

A Cable crowdfund to support the residents of Barton House is 1,200% funded - and counting.

Eliz Mizon

Opinion

Analysis: The national high-rise saga behind Barton House’s emergency evacuation

Peter Apps

Reports

Exclusive: Council denies structural issues identified four years ago are root cause of tower block evacuation

Billy Stockwell and Alex Turner

A rectangular tower block covered with scaffolding for fire safety works.

Features

A year on from fires, delays to safety works are leaving tower block tenants shivering

While the dangerous cladding on some of Bristol’s high-rise blocks has been removed, it’s yet to be replaced – meaning residents face a winter without insulated homes.

Sean Morrison

Reports

The full, bloody story behind the closure of Hidden Corner Cafe

Sean Morrison

Features

From city of sanctuary to ‘city of opportunity’ – how Bristol can better integrate refugees

Alex King

Voices

Image of Laura Williams, whose house move almost fell through due to problems with the Help to Buy loan scheme (credit: Alexander Turner)

How the Help to Buy scheme became a massive hindrance to my family moving house

Government loans promised an affordable path onto the housing ladder. But for some they have only deferred unmanageable debt, and a change in the firm administering Help to Buy has set off a nightmare for people trying to move.

Laura Williams

In Disrepair: Bristol's broken renting system

No fault evictions on the rise in Bristol amid calls for renting reforms to be strengthened

The Renters Reform Bill, which is slowly going through parliament, doesn’t tackle the affordability crisis and could allow no fault evictions to continue, say campaigners.

Matty Edwards

Area in Focus

Revealed: Renters living in mouldy flats handed steep rent hike by millionaire London landlords

Residents of the iconic Queens Court housing block in Clifton are fed up with living in poor conditions and their complaints being ignored, a Cable investigation has uncovered.

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 (Local Democracy Reporter)

This Better Work

Service cuts, redundancies and rising caseloads: St. Mungo’s staff vote for indefinite strike action

Unite members from St.Mungo’s vote to escalate their month-long strike to indefinitely, after charity refuses to meet pay demands

Priyanka Raval

In Disrepair: Bristol's broken renting system

End to no-fault evictions in sight as reforms to the private rented sector finally arrive

Housing campaigners have welcomed the long-anticipated Renters Reform Bill entering Parliament and committed to closing any loopholes for landlords to exploit.

Matty Edwards

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