South Bristol Voice August 2021

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August 2021 No. 68

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My MP? Karin Smyth MP By email: karin.smyth.mp@ parliament.uk By post: Karin Smyth MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA By phone: 0117 953 3575 In person: Call the above number for an appointment My councillor?

Post: (all councillors) City Hall, College Green, Bristol BS1 5TR. Tessa Fitzjohn Green, Bedminster By phone: 07584182801 By email: Cllr.Tessa.Fitzjohn@bristol.gov.uk Mark Bradshaw Labour, Bedminster. By email: Cllr.mark. bradshaw@bristol.gov.uk By phone: 0117 353 3160 Tony Dyer Green, Southville USEFUL NUMBERS Bristol City Council www.bristol.gov.uk 0117 922 2000 Waste, roads 0117 922 2100 Pests, dog wardens 0117 922 2500 Council tax 0117 922 2900

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Splashing! Kim swims the Channel for charity

By Lindsey Cole A South Bristolian has completed an English Channel relay swim to France for charity.

Kim Graves, of Knowle West, left Dover’s shores with her team at 11pm on July 9.

Fourteen hours and 21 minutes later they finished the 21-mile challenge and were in France, raising money for Aspire - a charity supporting people with spinal injuries.

At the time of going to print, Kim had raised over £1,800 for the cause.

Kim said: “The swimming was amazing. I saw porpoises playing in the distance. The sun was rising as I lifted my head to breathe. I was swimming to France. But it was really horrible being sick.”

Despite taking anti-nausea tablets all week, Kim was seasick within 20 minutes of getting on the boat.

“I said, ‘I can’t throw up. I can’t be that person’. Then I was dashing over the side. A couple of others looked peaky, but I was the main one to be ill.”

The six-person team all swam two legs each at an hour each time, with Kim being the fifth leg.

She added: “There was something about swimming that made me feel better. I put my head down, put one hand in front of the other and put all the training I’d done throughout winter into practice. I just stayed positive. Everyone was so supportive. I don’t think I could have asked for a better team.”

Kim signed up to swim the English Channel relay in September 2019, after another

Main image: Kim swimming the English Channel. Photo, right: Kim (far right) with her relay team

friend suggested it to her. But her friend decided that open water swimming wasn’t for her and Kim finally got a team together this February. “Meeting in Clevedon when the water was 4 degrees was a good bonding experience.”

Although the team swam all the way to France, only the last swimmer was allowed to touch land, due to Covid restrictions.

“We all had to remain in the boat, but we’d swum to France so we were happy. It was amazing seeing France.”

Kim has wanted to swim the Channel since she was young. “I was always small and slow but I

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Now she’s completed her challenge, Kim is looking forward to swimming for fun.

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She now also has more time to spend on another important campaign to her.

A group of keen outdoor swimmers in Bristol are campaigning to make the city’s

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Kim explained: “The water quality has been tested as excellent. It would be so great for Bristol.

“I just wish I could have cycled to the harbour and done my Channel training there, rather than having to drive all the way to Clevedon each time.”

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By Lindsey Cole Bristol South Pool has finally reopened its doors, much to the joy of staff and customers.

The pool shut in November 2019 for repair works and has remained closed until July 19.

Gary Teagle, contract manager at Everyone Active which manages the Dean Lane pool, said: “It’s been tough and challenging.

“Work started in November.

Then Covid hit the following March. Then we had to deal with roof damage in 2020 and vandalism.”

Gary wants customers to be aware that the work that has been done, which Bristol City Council invested £200,000 in, is underneath the pool and not visually cosmetic.

Gary added: “We had to extract and replace cast iron pipe work dating back to the 1930s and sort a leak in the main tank.”

He is especially grateful to his staff who helped get the building

ready, after it had been closed for so long. “Trying to clean it and get it back to a level for people to be able to return and swim has been a long journey. The staff have been incredible.”

Jess Gold [pictured, below] who has worked as a lifeguard at the pool for twelve years said: “I’m really happy it’s finally open. It’s brilliant to see all the

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dip as South Bristol Pool finally reopens customers inside the building and swimming again.”

Jess has been on furlough since lockdown, but when restrictions eased she had to travel to another pool to be able to do her training.

“We have a two hour training assessment every month to make sure we’re competent to work. So I’m glad I can do it here now.”

Customers are delighted their

"We were very sad when it was closed and dying for it to open again. Straight away I see friendly staff I know.” local pool is open again.

Ben, 36, said he is "elated"

and "really happy" as he has not swam in eighteen months.

Annie Cooksley said: “It’s utterly fantastic. Me and my son used the pool for many years. We were very sad when it was closed and dying for it to open again.

Straight away I see friendly staff I know.”

Southville councillor Tony Dyer said there were concerns amongst residents that the pool may not open again and encourages as many people as possible to use it. Cllr Dyer said: “The more that use it the more it sends a message to the council and operators that there’s a demand for a local pool.”

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Concern as clean air zone plans delayed by nine months

By Amanda Cameron, LDRS reporter for South Bristol Voice Bristol City Council did not assess the health harms of a delay to the Clean Air Zone “in any detail”, it has emerged.

A top transport officer made the admission to scrutiny councillors in July.

It comes after city mayor Marvin Rees said the delay of around nine months would “absolutely” not affect how soon Bristol would reach the Government’s clean air target.

The Clean Air Zone, designed to curb traffic air pollution, will see older, more polluting vehicles – an estimated 75,000 a day – charged to enter a small area in the city centre.

Whitehall had ordered the zone to be brought in this October, but it will not start until next summer.

Chair of the Overview and Scrutiny Management Board, Green councillor Carla Denyer, asked if the council had estimated whether there was any “substantial harm to health” from the delay.

She said: “I understand that the compliance date won’t be affected but one would assume, I think, that if the start date is later, that there will still be people who are

Green councillor Carla Denyer, chair of the council's Overview and Scrutiny Management Board

affected by that nine months less of having a clean air zone in place and I wondered if the council had made any assessment of that.”

The council’s strategic city transport service manager, Adam Crowther, replied: “No, we haven’t assessed that in any detail.”

But he said delaying the zone would mean “a bit of pollution…that wouldn’t have been there otherwise”.

Pollution levels are expected to start falling before the Clean Air Zone starts as people switch to cleaner vehicles, then drop sharply once it is introduced, he said.

Mr Crowther said there has already been a “significant drop” in pollution in central Bristol, due to measures such as the closure

of Bristol Bridge and Baldwin Street, the pedestrianisation of the Old City, and extra cycle lanes.

“Those sort of changes in the central area weren’t part of [the council’s outline CAZ plans submitted in November 2019], so there have been steps taken to, I suppose, mitigate any further delays by rapidly improving air quality in that central area,” he said.

It has been estimated that 300 people die each year as a result of air pollution in Bristol.

The Government ordered the council to reduce the city’s toxic NO2 levels to within legal limits as quickly as possible in 2017.

Mr Rees has said the latest delay is due to the Government needing more time to approve the council’s plans and its request for extra funding to help residents and businesses adjust to the scheme.

The exact implementation date will be decided after that, but the council has assured residents that the city is still on track to get toxic NO2 pollution levels down to within the legal limit by 2023.

• Southville councillors Tony Dyer and Christine Townsend have their say about the CAZ delays. Turn to page 15 to read this month's councillor column.

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MARVIN REES, Mayor of Bristol

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Making buses a realistic option for all of us

ristol needs a transformative approach to transport. For decades, the city’s political leadership took a patch and mend approach to transport, leaving us ill-equipped to meet the growing challenges we face as a city.

With a population that will grow by 100,000 by 2050, an ecological crisis that demands greener and more sustainable travel options, we have a moral and legal responsibility to improve Bristol’s air quality.

Bristol's status in 2021 as the only Core City without a mass transit system is unsustainable. We as a city need to evolve to meet our transport challenges. With that in mind, I was pleased to announce the appointment of our Cabinet Member for Transport, Don Alexander. His appointment will give us renewed leadership on the development of transport in Bristol.

Transport represents more than just movement, it's about connection. Connection of deprived areas to opportunities, connection of vulnerable people to services, connection of the public to the needs of the environment and, as Councillor Alexander has pointed out, connection to one another.

Councillor for Avonmouth and Lawrence Weston, Don is a bus-rider and understands the importance of a reliable, fast, and

sustainable bus network. He is prepared to focus on reinvigorating the bus services to remind the public of their value and to reduce car dependency, and on advancing the improvements to buses that we have begun during the past 5 years.

Before Covid, we were the only city in England outside London where bus passenger numbers were rising. We’ve delivered a cleaner bus fleet, with investment of more than £30 million since 2015 delivering 142 buses (including 99 biogas buses) in Bristol that meet the highest emission standards.

The Bristol Bus Deal has invited all operators in Bristol to help improve their peak hour services and started with the doubling of frequency of First Bus’s number 2 route. By investing in infrastructure to

support sustainable options, we make buses a realistic alternative. Going forward, Don will be working with the One City Transport Groups as well as First Bus and Network Rail on the delivery of walking and cycling upgrades, more park and ride sites and the Joint Local Transport Plan.

Don’s cabinet role will also involve managing the relationship between the bigpicture transport goals and the everyday local issues. This means that Don also steps up to manage the long-term items in our manifesto that will leave a lasting legacy, including the mass transit plan, while maintaining a commitment to the green infrastructure within which these pledges need to be delivered. The mass transit plan for Bristol is about unlocking jobs and opportunities for communities across the city, as well as helping us meet the demands of our growing population. By increasing the use of public transport, we can build a case for investment in a low carbon, reliable transport network which will help Bristol meet its 2030 net zero goals.

Councillor Alexander’s appointment represents an active step towards Bristol becoming a greener, more connected, more equal city. I welcome his contribution to cabinet and to city life.

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KARIN SMYTH, MP for Bristol South

Time running out for us to tackle climate change

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s I write, schools across Bristol are breaking for the summer holidays, the first since many Covid restrictions here have been relaxed.

The challenging state of play with the virus across Europe and beyond means that the summer stretching out ahead of us may bring far more freedom than the last, but holidays abroad are off the table for most of us.

To that end, the sunny weather that we have had recently is a good thing, as is the promise of more to come over August.

Whether it’s a park nearby, a trip to the coast or a chair and a good book in the back garden, we all deserve some downtime and good weather this summer!

But the soaring temperatures do bring with them some unease about the environmental changes driving them – the same changes that have brought terrifying images of flooding across Europe and China, wildfires in north America, and the thawing of Russian permafrosts onto the TV news.

All of which makes the United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP26, so crucial this autumn. Being held in Glasgow, it represents the best and last chance to realistically tackle climate change for future generations.

When the last Labour government introduced the 2008 Climate Change Act it was the world's first. It secured a long-term legally binding framework to tackle the perils of climate change. Importantly, it established the Climate Change Committee which regularly updates advice to government on new targets to limit emissions. But since that time, we have seen the UK slip backwards.

Progress has stalled and unless there is dramatic change in policy, the UK will miss these new targets. The Conservative government has failed to bring forward a major green stimulus, abandoned its flagship

green home insulation scheme and couldn’t even decide whether a new coal mine was a good or bad idea. Their desire to put shortterm political expediency ahead of longterm sustainability is dragging our country backwards. We could and should be worldleaders on climate change targets. The UK is naturally blessed with renewable sources of energy and it is ours for the taking.

As the Government cannot seem to get its act together, we need to do our bit in Bristol.

A quarter of total emissions still come from home energy, and globally 10% of emissions are from fashion. So, if we can do something individually, we should. Despite efforts to reduce car use there has only been a fall of 1% in emissions from road transport since 1990.

Of course, many people are already asking if that car journey is necessary. Do I need to buy that item shipped from a factory in China? Even the smallest change to how we live our lives can help tackle climate change, but we do need governments to lead too.

I still hope that COP26 will produce positive results for us all.

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Devastation as street art vandalised "We just want it to stop." This is the plea from the director of Upfest after multiple street art murals - created as part of this year's festival - were daubed with threatening graffiti.

At the time of going to print, police had released a CCTV still of a man they wished to speak with in connection to the damage.

The graffiti - which read 'kill Upfest', 'black metal lives' and 'black metal mafia' - took place early hours of the morning on July 19 and has affected a number of the murals which have been painted as part of Upfest's 75 walls in 75 days project.

There are concerns that some are beyond repair.

Advertisements were also targetted with the messages.

Upfest director Stephen Hayles said: "It is the vicious nature of the wording painted with a brush on the artworks and billboards which is extremely concerning for myself and my

One of the pieces, painted by street artist Inkie, which was targetted

team, as this is now the second occasion. We just want it to stop and not escalate further.”

Ch Insp Olly Cosgrove, area commander for south Bristol, said: “Officers with our neighbourhood team are carrying out an investigation into this mindless and selfish vandalism, which has damaged artwork intended to inspire and generate

positivity in the south Bristol area.

“We’ve spoken with the Upfest team and affected businesses to ensure each crime is recorded and evidence is gathered. All the incidents are believed to have taken place between 1am and 6am on Monday 19 July.

“We’ve reviewed CCTV from around the area and have identified a man we’d like to locate and speak to about this damage.”

If you have any information or further footage which could help the investigation, call 101 and give the call handler the reference number 5221162785.

Regeneration project takes step forward Following public consultation, work is now underway to create a set of guidelines for the regeneration of Whitehouse Street area in Bedminster.

The council is using feedback gathered by community group Action Greater Bedminster (AGB) to inform the framework before it is formally consulted on later in 2021.

The framework will guide change in the area, which is currently home to mostly commercial properties, over the next five to 10 years.

Ellie Freeman, chair of AGB, said: “This process has been a huge learning curve and, while not perfect, has meant the community has been able to feed into the framework and engage with the development process more directly than ever before.

“We’re really pleased the council has taken this approach and hope it will be used more in future.”

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Your local councillors Gary Hopkins & Chris Davies Lib Dem councillors Knowle

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xcellent work from the Friends of Jubilee Pool and their support for the present commercial operators has led to a large increase in membership. The Friends are also gearing up to take over the management and lease on the pool but the mayor has made no progress in setting up a transfer, and is failing to confirm that the present management can carry on after the formal contract runs out next March.

The transfer of the pavilion in Redcatch Park, to the community garden and the Park Football Club, is also held up.

We have a further meeting in the diary to chase up the possible early opening of our new secondary school and we have asked that the new Windmill Hill councillors be invited, as they have common cause with us. They

hopefully will be joined by Lib Dem councillor for Hengrove Tim Kent who heads the scrutiny commission and did much work over the years highlighting the oversubscribed school numbers problem.

We have welcomed a new member to our team, Will Appleby, who is working to rid the Northern Slopes of motorbikes.

The bikes are becoming a nuisance again on some streets as well and we have had meetings with the local police management to discuss this and other local issues. If you have any information on addresses from which illegal trials bikes are coming, please let us know.

We are following up repeated complaints of non-collection of waste and recycling but the management structure is not responsive.

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or many years much of our local community has suffered from a lack of a secondary school in the neighbourhood.

The result is that our children have had to travel outside the neighbourhood, often braving long journeys and breaking up the friendship groups built at primary school. There is some evidence this may have affected their results as our local primary schools have been high performing compared with the Bristol average.

So, when we heard that the new school planned for Daventry Rd is not opening until September 2023, we have worked with the Lib Dems in Knowle and with education officers to see what can be done.

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Your local councillors Mark Bradshaw Labour councillor Bedminster

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evelopment proposals for Ashton Gate (21/03165/F) and Longmoor (21/03166/P) have been submitted and can be found at: bristol.gov.uk/planning-andbuilding-regulations/look-atand-track-planning-applications.

It is important that Bedminster residents have their say about these important schemes.

I remain concerned at the traffic impact of both the existing stadium plus the new proposals.

Residents want to see safe junction protection and measures to control both matchday/event and commuter parking.

Longmoor is a residential proposal and building more affordable homes remains a priority for Bristol. I want to make sure that the affordable homes that would be built are truly affordable. The proposed development site does not include

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the Town and Village Green land (which cannot be developed) but there is an opportunity for local residents to have a say about how this land is managed for the long term to support biodiversity, while remaining accessible for all.

Similar issues relate to the Colliters pathway and other strips of land near the proposed development site. A comprehensive management plan to protect and enhance these ecology corridors is important.

Council officers have told me that funding is now agreed to repair Silbury Road in Ashton Vale which has been badly damaged by HGV traffic. Further details on this work, due to start in late August/September, are expected soon. I will keep residents informed on this and other issues via my Facebook @CouncillorMarkforBedminster and Twitter: @mark_bradshaw

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e are obviously disappointed by the council’s decision to delay the Clean Air Zone. This will have obvious impacts on improving air quality but are also aware that some residents felt that they had not been given clear information about what support was available to them to transition.

We will be calling upon the council not to waste the additional time and to provide the clear information asked for.

Bristol South Pool has finally re-opened. We want to encourage as many people as possible to make use of the pool and send a clear message about the need for a local pool.

As we write this column, there has been a significant increase in Covid cases within the ward and across the city region.

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and others, we made a determined effort to alert people to reduce the impact. By the time you read this, we will know if that effort was successful.

Bristol Waste have also been affected with staff needing to isolate.

Residents are being asked to leave their bins out for the following day if not collected. A list of roads impacted is published at bristolwastecompany.co.uk/ collections/. If your road is listed you do not need to report non collection.

In an effort to learn from the mistakes of the past, the Whitehouse Street Community Manifesto is the result of gathering community input into how an often overlooked part of Bedminster should be regenerated.

It can be downloaded from whitehousestreet.com.

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We have found the current situation with COVID has only increased the demand for all types of buyers. First time buyers are as eager as ever to get on the market and in turn, there are escalating numbers of homeowners wanting larger properties with bigger gardens or scope for home/garden offices and extensions.

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The first thing you’ll need to do is get a mortgage in principle. It’s important to make sure the property you buy is right for you, so make sure you ask lots of questions at the viewing. Once you have found your perfect home, it’s time to make an offer. Once you offer has been accepted, the property is then marketed as ‘sold subject to contract’ and will be taken off the market.

If you haven’t already, the next step is to find a solicitor to deal with all the legal processes involved in transferring home ownership from the seller to you. Whilst you solicitor is getting on with the legal side of the purchase, you’ll need to get the financial side in place by formally applying for a mortgage. You may also want to go ahead with a more comprehensive survey, but this is completely to your discretion. Once your solicitor has received your mortgage offer and the conveyancing is complete, you will be able to exchange. Soon after this you will complete on the purchase. Congratulations, you are now a proud owner of your new home.

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n NEWS FROM THE METRO MAYOR

New skills for the jobs of the future cars at the moment. So we definitely need more great people like those I met at S&B Automotive Academy.

I met apprentices studying at the University of Bath, where we talked about the exciting possibilities for quantum computing, where our region is leading the way. Quantum computers can do a calculation in just over an hour that it would take the world’s most powerful supercomputer eight years to crack.

Another inspiring visit was to the Women’s Work Lab that is helping mums get back to work. Some had been unemployed for many years and others had lost their jobs due to the pandemic. What the two inspiring women leading the programme had done was give the other women a rocket booster of confidence, identifying their skills and arranging work experience.

We are at a tricky time. There is the danger of the furlough cliff edge, and business owners told me the pandemic has been the toughest time they have ever known. At the same time, covid case numbers are rising again, which is why we need a science-led approach to reopening.

So what’s next?

I will be working with employers and trade

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unions to create 23,000 new green jobs.

I plan to introduce a good employers charter to encourage businesses to do the right thing by our communities and their staff.

I will keep pressing the Government to support businesses struggling with the effects of covid, because it’s a lot easier to save a job than create new ones.

And on skills, I am determined to replicate that supportive go-getter atmosphere I found, so even more people can find a job that allows them to fulfil their potential.

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I’M writing this column as my Jobs and Skills Summit, which I pledged to hold during my first 100 days in office, draws to a close.

It wasn’t quite as I envisaged (there’s still too much covid for that) but I have met hundreds of people who are in and out of work, or studying, as well as hearing from businesses and trade unions.

One thing that stood out for me was the power of technology. When I visited apprentices training to be locksmiths, I suppose I’d thought it would be about things like cutting keys. But actually lots of keys, locks and security systems are high tech these days. So, it was about transponders, face recognition software and key cards that only let specific people into certain parts of a building at set times.

Likewise, when I met apprentice mechanics, they weren’t servicing petrol cars. Instead I found out about the training they are doing to work on electric cars. It’s vital we skill up more people, otherwise there is going to be a real roadblock to the plan to end the sale of petrol and diesel cars by 2030, and our ambitious West of England plan for net zero by the same year. The Institute of the Motor Industry says that just 5% of garage and dealer technicians are appropriately trained to work on electric

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• Discuss your local housing services with the council.

• Find out more about our Moving Forward Together programme, and help us design housing services based around what matters most to you.

• Housing Officers will also be there to help you with your enquiries.

• Places must be booked, you can do this online at: www.bristol.gov.uk/LocalHousingForums or for more information contact: Tenant Participation (0117) 352 1444 or email tpu@bristol.gov.uk.

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SPOTLIGHT ON NORTH STREET ADVERTISING FEATURE

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The Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) shop has experienced a surge in demand for good quality second-hand clothing since reopening in April and is asking people to consider donating any unwanted items.

Shop manager Sue Flay said: “We have been very busy since the easing of lockdown and while we have a great choice in store right now, we know we are going to need more summer clothing to meet the demand of the next few weeks.

“We think that because of the lockdown last summer, people didn’t refresh their wardrobe as much as normal. Then with lockdown in the early part of this year, they weren’t able to have a clear out and donate any preloved summer clothing.

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The shop is also in need of children’s toys and bric-a-brac and donations can be dropped off at the shop from 9-5, Tuesday through to Saturday.

Sue added: “We have donation bags at the shop and suggest people phone ahead if they are planning to make a special trip or donating a lot of stock.” Everything sold in the shop helps CHSW provide vital care to local children with life-limiting conditions and their families. For more information, call the shop on 0117 3290 271 or visit www.chsw.org.uk/shop

North Street Nursery celebrates three years as part of the community later this year, having been a supportive member of the North Street Traders Association since our arrival and, having remained open for more than 60 key workers and almost 20 NHS staff during the pandemic.

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SPOTLIGHT ON NORTH STREET

Seeing double! 3D mural replaces Greta

Insane 51's 3D mural painted on the side of the Tobacco Factory. Photos taken by Roger Turner through 3D glasses

By Lindsey Cole A new Bedminster mural has replaced the face of one of the world’s most famous activists.

The giant artwork on the side of the Tobacco Factory, featuring Greta Thunberg, was created by Bristol artist Jody in 2019 and has been viewed by millions around the globe.

It has now been replaced by pioneering 3D muralist Insane 51’s work, as part of Upfest’s 75 walls project.

The Greek artist has previously participated in the festival, creating the 3D piece on Ashton Plate café. He specialises in double exposure murals that show multiple artworks with 3D glasses and has quarantined in the UK especially to paint this landmark mural for Bristol.

Insane 51 said: “The artwork is called Dream. It depicts Nyx the Greek mythological character of the night holding Selene, the goddess of the moon.” The mural, when viewed through either a blue or a red lens, comes to life with two distinct images.

Upfest was due to take place in August but has been rescheduled until next summer due to the continued uncertainty caused by the pandemic.

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Following the challenging 18 months, Stephen Hayles, Upfest director, said it’s great to be able to deliver Upfest #75Walls. He said: “We knew it was going to be difficult to bring international artists back to Bedminster this year, however we've managed it in spectacular style. After a week in quarantine, Insane 51 has delivered this breathtaking 3D mural.”

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George Ferguson, the owner of the Tobacco Factory and former mayor, paid tribute to Jody’s mural. He said: "It is great to have been able to celebrate the vital work that Greta continues to do holding power to account. We are now excited to have new work by the incredibly clever and talented Insane 51 that will continue the theme of our relationship with nature and the planet.

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Local History

Worshipping and socialising in my teens We continue our serialisation of Memories of a Bristol Boyhood by Knowle resident John Fletcher. This month, John takes a trip down memory lane to when he became a regular church worshipper and recalls a certain discovery at his local church's over 15s social club ...

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t the age of 15 I experienced conflict in my church-going. In the previous few years I had regularly attended St Martin’s, Knowle. This church is an Anglican high church, known irreverently as ‘Bells and Smells’ in reference to the use of a small bell rung at the alter and the incense used in quite a number of services.

St Martin’s celebrated many festivals with elaborate processions including decorative robes for the clergy, acolytes, cross bearers, incense and full choir. To me as a teenager I found these services moving but more of a performance than a religious experience. There seemed to be a remoteness between the congregation and the robed party. The change in my church-going feelings happened when I started accompanying my mother to Christ Church, Hengrove. She had been introduced to the church by Molly Moore, with whom she worked in the grocery section of the Co-Op. Christ Church could not have been more different in both architecture and liturgy. The only procession was simply to escort the choir and vicar about 20 yards to and from the vestry. The clergy are addressed as Vicar, or simply by their Christian name by adult members of the church.

I soon became a regular worshipper at Christ Church.

There was a very homely feeling, particularly at Evensong on winter’s evenings when a full church would produce a comfortable warmth and during the sermon all lights apart from the pulpit light would be extinguished, leaving the preacher in the spotlight.

It was a regular occurrence at Harvest and other major festivals for two services to be arranged on the Sunday evening. A very

emotive feeling was created at the beginning of Evensong when the choir of about 40 voices gathered in the vestry and sang unaccompanied the first verse of the hymn: “We love this place O God Wherein Thine honour dwells The joy of Thine abode All earthly joy excels.”

The post-war years saw Christ Church reach its peak as a force in the community. It seems sad that it takes a war or major catastrophe to bring people to worship in churches. In 1938, the year before WW2 commenced, the annual number of communicants at Christ Church, Hengrove was 3,706, by 1949 the number had risen to over 12, 000.

The Bush family was very much involved with Christ Church from the beginning. They owned a large amount of land in Hengrove and part of this

land was purchased to build the church. W. A. (Bill) Bush served as Vicar’s Warden for 21 years.

His wife organised the choir and their eldest daughter, Sheila, ran the Sunday School, all this under the watchful eye of ‘Aunty’ Vi Bush, who lived in the larger house on the corner of Wells road and Petherton Road, which is now a veterinary surgery.

Bill Bush had also been a captain of Knowle CC and a leading committee man, and he took me under his wing. One benefit was that I had a reserved seat in the Church Warden’s pew and did not have to arrive for Evensong until the last minute.

I attended Christ Church, Hengrove regularly, quite often twice, on a Sunday but retained my connection with St Martin’s, Knowle for my social life as the table tennis and football teams were where my friends played.

In the autumn of 1947, just

after my 15th birthday, a new dimension came into my life. I joined St Martin’s 15 Plus Club and discovered girls. I suppose ‘discovered’ is too strong a word for I obviously knew girls existed but until then they had been positively ignored. Having attended a boys’ only school and all my sporting activities being male orientated, girls (apart from my sister and cousin) did not really enter my world. Boys’ Club continued as usual on Tuesday evenings and 15 Plus on Thursday evenings. Our group of boys aimed to arrive early of a Thursday evening and managed to get three table tennis tables in play before the main influx of members, including girls, arrived. The general rule was that the tables would be dismantled

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Boy meets girl at that age and stage was a very tentative and cautious experience. There was no sex education or even human biology classes in most schools and by and large our working class group of boys were more innocent and respectful than the middle class grammar school boys. The 15 Plus Club arranged itself into two fairly distinct groups; our group contained 15 and 16 year-olds and the others aged from 17-20, although most boys over 18 had disappeared to do National Service.

I have a photograph taken in 1948 in which three things occur to me [see photo, top right].

There are 33 club members in the photo. Besides myself I can think of about another 6 or 7 boys missing including all the members of the table tennis team (we must have had a match on). The first thing that strikes me is that for an ordinary club night, all but one of the boys are dressed in collar and ties.

The second point is that of all those in the photo, more of half of whom were very intelligent grammar school educated people, only one in the photo and one of the missing boys went on to university. I cannot think of any girl that I knew in the whole of my youth who was university educated. The third thing of note is that of the 33 in the photo, 12 eventually married a fellow club member.

Our set of 15 and 16 year-olds tended to go around in small groups rather than a one-to-one boyfriend-girlfriend set up, so that about 5 or 6 would arrange to go together to the local cinema or dance. On less frequent occasions in the summer time we could get ten or a dozen to swim in the river at Keynsham or Woollard, or even a cycle ride to Weston. After Thursday evening club, groups would form to walk home in various directions. Boys usually escorted girls to their homes first. I teamed up with Pam, a very pretty, shy girl who was still at Colston Grammar School. This arrangement suited quite well on two counts; firstly her home was less than 200 yards from mine, but more importantly she was the proud

Photo, top: St Martins 15+ Club. We must have had a table tennis match on that evening because five regular members, including me, are missing. Photo, above: St Martin's mixed hockey club owner of a new Aubrey Simons table tennis bat that I had almost constant use of.

The 15 Plus Club did not have any sporting tradition apart from table tennis which was just a carry forward from the Boys’ Club. As we boys were now too old to compete in the junior sections of the football leagues and most were preparing to be called up for National Service, the football team was disbanded.

This left a void in our Saturday afternoons and a couple of boys who attended Bristol Grammar

School where they were taught to play hockey, suggested that we formed a mixed hockey team.

Those of us who knew nothing about hockey but who played cricket were well equipped to hit a hockey ball while the rest of the game was very akin to football and we were soon able to compete favourably against all other established local teams.

NEXT ISSUE: Read about John's first adventure to foreign lands, where he visited Collioure in France.

John's wonderful recollections are sure to jog the memories of some of our readers. We would love to hear similar tales and see photos from the period.

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n HOME CARE & FUNDING

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Healthy Homes for Bristol Homeowners ACCORDING to the National Center for Healthy Housing, a healthy home is housing that is designed, constructed and maintained in a manner that is conducive to good occupant health.

Improving the condition of private sector housing will not only benefit the housing stock but provide significant improvements in independence, health and wellbeing that people experience when they live in a home designed to meet their needs.

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Pub licence approved Off to a great start!

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By Adam Postans, LDRS reporter for South Bristol Voice A “small, intimate” basement pub has been granted a licence after its owner agreed to curtail its opening hours amid concerns from the police, environmental health and neighbours.

Tap Room, behind The Toast Room cafe in East Street, Bedminster, is set to open next year, offering a range of locally brewed craft beers.

Bristol City Council licensing sub-committee heard the original application for 6am to 3am from Friday to Sunday and until 1am on other days had been scaled back to 7am to 11pm daily following talks with Avon & Somerset Police and the local authority’s noise pollution team.

An external courtyard has also been removed from the licensed area, which means customers can drink only inside.

But plans for the outside area to be used by customers for smoking remained a bone of contention for one resident, who did not attend the hearing on July 1 and whose objection remained the only one outstanding.

Licensing consultant Darren Brice, representing applicant Michael O’Neill, told the panel the neighbour’s representation originally concerned noise nuisance, but after a “vast array of conditions” were agreed with

the authorities, it now concerned where people would smoke.

He said his client had not received any response yet from the courtyard’s landowner, whose consent is required for it to be used.

But Mr Brice said he was confident that would happen and that it was the “ideal” location for customers to smoke because it had CCTV and was much preferable to the alleyway or on the street.

He said: “I would not want to see members of the public congregating on the pavement smoking.

“Staff from the shop next door already use the alleyway for smoking and simply drop their cigarette butts.

“My client won’t add to the problem and could end up clearing up their mess too.

“We are happy to accept conditions that will mitigate residents’ concerns.”

He said Mr O’Neill would ensure the exterior area would be kept free of cigarette butts and jet-washed regularly.

Councillors granted the application but urged communication with the landowner and added further conditions to ensure the courtyard was cleaned and had appropriate lighting and places to stub out cigarettes.

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Heather and the giant fennel

By Lindsey Cole A Knowle resident has grown a plant over 11 feet tall over the pandemic.

During the first lockdown Heather Knight, of Ravenhill Avenue, was able to invest more time into her garden. Her friend Ed O'Brien, a garden designer, took her to the local nursery to help her choose new plants, where she first became acquainted with giant fennel.

Heather said: “I’d never seen anything quite like it. It was so beautiful.”

She explained the plant was just 12cm tall when she planted it last summer, “and it just grew and grew”.

It was a two-person job to measure its current height at 3.5m tall.

Giant fennel normally grows to about three metres, but can reach a height of 5 metres after two to five years.

“In May, a huge stem shot up with incredible sage and lilac colours. The leaves criss-cross

Heather Knight pictured with her giant fennel, which she has been growing since the first lockdown

like a plait. I’m incredibly proud and love to see people checking it out when they walk past and ask about it.”

Heather found gardening helped her with anxiety during lockdown. “In a time of great uncertainty being able to tend to my plants gave me a focus and sense of wellbeing. There’s a lot of faith involved with gardening and you’re never sure what nature’s going to do. It’s an interesting balance of control and surrender.”

The plant will soon be deflowering, but Heather hopes it will remain like a beautiful giant sculpture. “It’s really sturdy and swayed in those winds we’ve just had. It’s a bit like bamboo.”

Unfortunately, you cannot eat giant fennel, but Heather grows regular fennel too. “Don’t worry, we have plenty of fennel to eat.”

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What matters most to you?

IN June, I launched my Police and Crime Survey as an opportunity for residents across Avon and Somerset to tell me what policing issues matter most to them.

The 12-week long survey, which only takes 10 minutes to complete, includes a number of questions focusing on my draft Police and Crime Plan priorities and objectives. These objectives cover a range of police topics, including anti-social behaviour, burglary, hate crime, rural crime, domestic abuse and how you want the police to be open and transparent.

It is essential that, as your PCC, I am listening to all communities and their concerns, and that is why I want as many local people as possible to share their views on these draft objectives.

My priorities and objectives

are the cornerstone of my Police and Crime Plan, a legal document that sets out the policing of the area, how the Chief Constable will be held to account and how I will use your money – taxpayers’ money – to deliver an effective and efficient police service and support other services, such as victim support providers.

In my role as PCC, I am the bridge between local people and the police, and it is absolutely essential that I hear from as many of you as possible, including victims of crime, about my proposed Police and Crime Plan and the direction I am setting for Avon and Somerset Police.

When I came into the role, I promised I would make Avon and Somerset a safer place for everyone, and part of achieving this is listening to your views,

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thoughts and concerns. The survey is an opportunity for you to tell me what you want your police service to focus on. To complete the survey online, visit avonandsomerset-pcc.gov.uk/ about/police-and-crime-survey.

Last month, we were told by the Prime Minister that there was to be a big lifting of lockdown restrictions. Most of the coronavirus rules we have lived with since last March, including face masks, social distancing and working from home were set to end on July 19 thanks to the roll-out of the vaccines.

Despite the fact that life is closer than ever to returning to ‘normal’, I encourage you to remain vigilant, take personal responsibility and be aware of others around you. We have lived with these restrictions for a considerable amount of time –

With Police and Crime Commissioner Mark Shelford longer than any of us expected – and not everyone will be as comfortable walking around with no face mask on or being in close proximity to others.

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Funding approved to boost our local high street

By Amanda Cameron, LDRS reporter for South Bristol Voice East Street is one of Bristol's nine high streets which will be the first to benefit from a £4.7million cash injection to restore life to the main streets at the heart of the city’s communities.

Local high streets have been suffering for years, under pressure from online traders, large supermarkets and retail parks, and the pandemic has only hastened their decline.

Bristol City Council announced in March it was launching a £4.725 million recovery package for the regeneration and recovery of the city centre and 47 high streets.

This week the city’s ruling Labour cabinet gave its approval to spend the funding, with the city centre and nine high streets across Bristol first in line for recovery and renewal.

The nine high streets are East Street, Church Road, Shirehampton Stapleton Road, Filton Avenue, Two Mile Hill, Brislington Hill, Filwood Broadway, and Stockwood.

The majority of the funding, £2.725million, has been allocated by the West of England Combined Authority (Weca) from its Love Our High Streets fund.

Addressing cabinet members on July 13, city mayor Marvin Rees said: “This cash boost will help to spearhead the regeneration and

An illustration of East Street as part of the 'East Street Vision'. Source: Bedminster BID recovery of the city centre and 47 high streets across Bristol.

“In total, £2million of funding has been earmarked from my capital recovery fund and £2.7million from Weca’s Love Our High Streets fund which has been ring-fenced for Bristol.

“Nine high streets will be the focus of initial support. The money will be used to improve the street scene, reduce the number of vacant premises by providing financial support to open new businesses including hospitality and creative spaces.

“This investment will see us working with

businesses, residents, community groups, the creative and events sector and other stakeholders to design public realm and street scene improvements reflecting the needs and aspirations of each area concerned.”

East Street in Bedminster has already started along the path of regeneration with some local businesses making use of grants of up to £10,000 that are still available to regenerate underused shops, cafes, artists studios and offices. The money was allocated

by Weca in 2018 after East Street was chosen along with two other streets in the region to receive Love our High Street pilot project funding.

An ambitious £10million plan to invigorate East Street has also been launched

by Bedminster’s business community, after they spent more than a year talking to local residents, people from across South Bristol who visit there already, and traders in East Street.

Southville councillor Tony Dyer told cabinet members: “We are very keen to get investment into the East Street vision.”

The programme will create 195 new jobs, protect 168 jobs and create extra paid employment opportunities for artists/creative practitioners and event professionals, the report says.

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Further consultation needed on pub application

By Amanda Cameron, LDRS reporter for South Bristol Voice Controversial plans to turn a South Bristol pub into flats were pulled from the agenda of a planning meeting on July 21.

The owners of the Windmill pub in the Windmill Hill area of Bedminster say it is no longer a viable business and are seeking to convert the closed establishment into five flats.

Their application was due to be heard a second time after previous planning permission was withdrawn following a legal challenge from a potential buyer who wanted to reopen the pub.

But Bristol City Council confirmed this morning that the item has been withdrawn from a planning meeting due to start at 2pm today.

Asked why, a spokesman said: “The council is in discussion with the applicants about the potential of further public consultation.”

Bar Wars, who own the

Windmill pub, thought they had been given planning permission last year to convert it into flats, after a council planning committee voted to approve the scheme.

But the council withdrew the consent after Nick James, who had been making offers to buy the pub and reopen it last year, threatened to challenge the decision through the courts.

His legal challenge asserted

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the council failed to properly consider the pub as an asset of community value and failed to consider the effect of the loss of the pub on equalities, as it is legally obliged to do.

It also accused the council of not properly applying planning policies that specify the circumstances under which a pub or community facility can be lost, according to a report to the planning meeting.

Conceding there was a case to answer, the council, rather than face a judicial review, decided the application should be decided a second time by a planning committee.

The identical application, with the same officer recommendation to approve it, was listed to be heard in City Hall today.

The council’s top planning officer explained to councillors at the meeting exactly why the application was withdrawn from the agenda.

Development manager Gary Collins said the council received another legal challenge from “the objectors” on July 16, asking that the item be pulled.

“We took the view that while we didn’t necessarily agree with the points that had been made

by the objectors’ lawyers, it was safer all round if we were to follow their request and withdraw the item from the agenda, but also to do two main things,” Mr Collins said.

First, the council has asked Bar Wars to make their assessment of the pub’s financial viability “explicitly public”.

Second, he said: “When that happens we will then instigate a further round of public consultation so the public know explicitly why the committee’s reconsidering the application and that further information is available for their scrutiny and comment.

“So hopefully that can happen in the next few weeks and we can bring it [the application] back to the next meeting.”

Eighty-four residents objected to the plans from Bar Wars to convert The Windmill into two one-bedroom and three twobedroom flats when they were submitted a year ago. Three people told the council they supported the plans.

More than 20 residents and a local councillor have objected to the application since July 8, but two neighbours have supported the plans, with one calling the empty pub an “ugly eyesore”.

The Windmill closed in March 2020, before the first lockdown, and the community was subsequently unable to raise enough money to buy it.

Southville councillors elected to Bristol Greens' shadow cabinet Southville councillors Tony Dyer and Christine Townsend have been elected to Bristol Green Party's shadow cabinet.

Cllr Dyer will be responsible for Housing Delivery and Homes and Cllr Townsend, Education, Families and Children's Services.

Bristol Green Party are the joint largest group on the council, with 24 councillors elected to both the Greens and Labour in the May elections.

Leader of the Green councillor group, and newly elected Shadow Cabinet Member for Planning and City Design, Paula O’Rourke said: “The

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Last orders for pub team

By Lindsey Cole The team behind the Victoria Park Pub in Raymend Road has announced to its customers that its last day of service will be August 1.

Luke Freeman and Dean Wooley have run the pub for 11 years.

The Victoria Park pub team said in a Facebook post: “This was not a decision that we made or wanted. Our lease came to an end and the pub company that own the building have decided to take the pub back and run it themselves as a managed house.

“We have made so many amazing memories and had so many good times with you all.

We’ve made life-long friends, met our partners and someone even got married in the pub, so we are very sad to say good bye.”

Simon Calcraft, the pub manager of six years, said most

of the staff has been offered new jobs with Stonegate which has now taken over the lease.

He said: “I’m excited to move onto something new, but it will be sad to say goodbye to this place after the great reputation that Luke and Dean spent 11 years building.”

Calcraft adds the new management may give the pub a new facelift, but will not make any major changes.

Customers have left messages on the pub’s Facebook page saying they are "absolutely gutted" and that it is "such sad news".

One customer said: "I’ve been going to this pub for 50 years and you guys were the best landlords."

The pub team encourages customers to have one last drink with them before they close.

Funding available to invest in local parks Small grants to make community projects happen in local parks or urban green spaces have become available.

Between £500-£1,000 are on offer to groups as part of the Love Your Park Community Fund which was launched during Love Your Park week in July.

The money could go towards a new project or an existing one that needs a small injection of funds.

The scheme is part of Your Park's mission as a charity to make parks better places to meet, play, learn, and enjoy nature.

Applications are open until September 5 and groups will be notified of the outcome in early October.

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Mental Health Mates Bristol Friday 6 August, 2pm Ashton Court, golf course car park, BS8 3TX Sunday 29 August, 2pm Cafe Retreat, the Downs, BS9 1FG. A peer support group which meets regularly to walk, connect and share without fear or judgement. You can talk as much or as little as you want. For more details, visit: mentalhealthmates. co.uk. To reserve your space, email mentalhealthmatesbristol@gmail. com • Have you got an event you'd like included in our What's On section? Email sales@ southbristolvoice.co.uk

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was working in my home office/dumping room, shuffling paperwork, and listening to Woman’s Hour on Radio 4. The subject made me growl, a self-employed bloke was squeaking about the Government not giving him paid paternity leave, cry-baby.

Himself, who forgets he has children, had decided to take the day off and make some beer.

This did not improve my mood.

The beer-making process is long, messy and stinky (the hops smell like dog poop, it permeates my pores).

Once brewed, the beer sits on the kitchen worktop and bubbles merrily. This is the next annoying process - fermentation.

The house will be nice and quiet apart from the intermittent pop and gurgle from the barrel. Said barrel be studied for a couple of weeks, torches shone into it and heads scratched until deemed ready for bottling.

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who owns THE WICKED a few pubs.

He gave the WITCH OF publican KNOWLE a bottle of homebrew to try. The publican loved it and messaged to ask how many bottles Himself could produce. He was serious. We worked out that six bottles might be achievable with some homemade sticky labels attached.

How we laughed.

Still laughing, we went on a bike ride to Chew and ended up at the place Himself had been working. We paused to admire it.

The deli next door was open and we decided to stop for a coffee.

Himself had got to know the deli’s owner and told me some details about him. We came up with a naughty plan.

I wandered into the shop

and listened as a lady asked for a packet of chestnut flour (this paints a picture of the sort of place it was). As Chestnut Girl left, I walked up to the till and enquired, in a strangely posh voice “are your coffee beans a Ugandan blend?”

The owner looked surprised stating, “Yes, but you must have known that?” “No,” I lied “It’s my favourite coffee”.

Whilst he busied with the coffee machine, I leaned towards him, narrowing my eyes, said “You look very familiar.”

“I do play in a band” he replied, glancing smugly to his companion.

I nodded then asked “You don’t play the saxophone, do you? With Boy George?”

“Yes” came the stunned reply “Yes, I do.” His mouth was agog under the mask (I could just tell)

“Thought so,” I replied, drifting around the small shop.

I paused at a colourful drippy bee painting (not part of the plan but a perfect coincidence). “Oh, this is Sophie Long’s work. I know Sophie, such a talent.” I decided not to mention that she doesn’t actually know me and continued vaguely, “she lives in Totterdown”.

Mr Sax was staring at me in wonder: “You look familiar too, what’s your name?”

I cackled loudly, saying “ahh, nobody special”, grabbed the coffees and made my escape where Himself was waiting on a bench around the corner.

We giggled like children.

Sipping the coffee, I suggested we admit our little prank.

“Nah” came the reply “We’ve made his day. Mr Sax be on the phone to Boy George bragging about being recognised. I’ve finished that job so will never see him again.”

And we laughed all the way home.

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ife should not be lived looking out of the rear view mirror. Nevertheless, events in the last 18 months will stay with us, most certainly for life. For many, personal loss is a feeling that will reinforce this.

Whatever your thoughts about the Government's decision to remove social distancing measures, we must all bear this in mind – it is really not over yet. We are still in the COVID-19 pandemic.

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'Giant wall' student complex given approval

By Adam Postans, LDRS reporter for South Bristol Voice Controversial plans for an 819-bedroom student accommodation complex in Bedminster branded a “giant wall across the city” have been approved.

Bristol city councillors voted by 5-3 to grant permission for the two buildings, which will range from three to nine storeys, despite 91 objections.

Development control committee members agreed with officers’ recommendation to give consent for the scheme - put forward by developers Deeley Freed - which is the biggest single site of the “Bedminster Green” regeneration project.

There will be a total of 82 “cluster units”, each with 10 rooms for students, plus communal and kitchen areas, as well as flexible workspace on the ground floor, replacing a large car park and some industrial units between Dalby Avenue, Whitehouse Lane and Phillip Street.

Objections were lodged by dozens of residents, Windmill Hill and Malago Community Planning Group (WHaM), BS3 Group, Bristol Civic Society and the Conservation Advisory Panel on grounds of height and scale, the impact on neighbouring Windmill Hill City Farm and lack of sunlight indoors.

Historic England had concerns on heritage grounds but did not object, while the city farm and Bedminster Business Improvement District (BID) registered “neutral” comments and there was support from the University of Bristol.

A planning officer told members on June 30 that most of the concerns were not supported by evidence and that the impact on nearby listed buildings was outweighed by the benefits.

These will include

A CGI of the new route from Whitehouse Lane through to Clarke Street. Image: Deeley Freed improvements to roads, transport and public spaces, such as 41 more trees, “living roofs” of wildflowers and opening up the Malago river, with the developers required to spend £636,000 on local infrastructure and carbon offsetting.

The site is one of five either side of Malago Road put together by the council and developers in the Bedminster Green project, with planning permission so far given for two high-rise developments.

Windmill Hill councillor Ed Plowden said: “The big concern is this could be a catalyst for further unsympathetic and unsustainable development in the area.

“I cannot believe Windmill Hill City Farm, which grows food and is an incredibly important local amenity, will not be affected by the light implications of this.

“The sunlight at midday will be gone altogether in the winter and that is a massive concern if you’re trying to grow food.”

Southville councillor Tony

Dyer said: “No offence to the Little Paradise on the East Street architect but I find both buildings side of Malago Road. distinctly underwhelming. I A third, on the former Pring have concerns about the number site, has been turned down twice of student beds in the same by planners and appeals have location.” been rejected.

But committee chairman Cllr A fifth site, on land around Richard Eddy said: “The evidence the green of “Bedminster shows there is a very minor loss Green”, is in the early stages of of sunlight so this doesn’t seem the planning process, but local to be a persuasive argument to businesses are already objecting vote against this. to being evicted to make way “This has great environmental for that part of the regeneration arguments for it. The river project. is going to be enhanced, the living roofs and the sustainable Max Freed, of Deeley transport are all positive Freed, said: “We’re delighted improvements and the fact it’s to be delivering this exciting, almost zero car-led has to be a transformational development. positive factor.”

"It will act as a catalyst for He said they should ask the the regeneration of Bedminster cabinet to fast-track a residents’ Green, enabling the Dalby parking zone for Windmill Hill, Avenue, Whitehouse Lane and which is one of the conditions of river Malago improvements to be consent. brought forward by the Council.

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News Have your say on Novers Hill plans Proposals have been put forward to build 157 new homes at Novers Hill.

The development would consist of mainly two- to fourbedroom houses and one- and two-bedroom apartments.

Developers Lovell Homes are inviting residents to give their proposals on the plans, which includes 30 per cent affordable homes.

The area earmarked for development is currently privately-owned with no public access.

However, the proposal would open up the site to the public, with a 'green corridor' running through the central area of the site, which would be protected and enhanced. The new homes would be built either side of the green corridor.

There would also be a new ‘natural’ play area for the whole community.

Lovell Homes proposes to make Novers Hill one-way - to ensure it retains the road's existing hedgerow - and to build

a new three-metre wide path for pedestrians and cyclists, which would run alongside Novers Hill.

On-site parking is proposed for all new residents and visitor vehicles.

A series of measures, including planting additional trees, are also being put forward to meet the council's target of increasing biodiversity on all development sites by 10 per cent.

The house builder would also recruit a number of apprentices - and ask its subcontractors to also support the apprenticeship scheme.

Comments about the proposals can be submitted at www.novershillconsultation. co.uk, emailed to info@ novershillconsultation.co.uk or by calling 0800 193 9403.

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Letters to the Editor

Email letters to news@southbristolvoice.co.uk or post to 111 Broadfield Rd, Knowle, BS4 2UX. Please keep letters brief, no more than 250 words - we reserve the right to edit letters

Impressive plans - but what about parking?

I am a very close neighbour to Ashton Gate Stadium. The proposal for the expansion is impressive, and without a doubt this major employment hub will benefit South Bristol. Despite the years of construction work ahead which will be draining for neighbours, the end product will be something for us to feel proud of. There is one important aspect however that has resulted in my formal objection to it, and this is parking.

The council failed neighbours already when in 2015 it allowed a sleepy once-a-fortnight football stadium to become the South West's largest events venue with no consideration to the impact this would have on immediate neighbours. Before the pandemic 'matchday parking' had become a meaningless term for us close by, and 'event parking' became more appropriate. Events were becoming near-daily, and our streets were regularly chock-full of staff and

visitor cars, damaging the amenity of our streets and making it difficult for car visitors (of which there are many!) to access Greville Smyth Park. Every day was like matchday.

With this new proposal will come literally hundreds more office and hotel workers with no parking, 61 flats with no parking, and daily large events. Without preventative measures every day and evening could feel like matchday in the streets of Ashton. Residents of Raynes, Gerald, Banwell, Duckmoor, Bower, Irby, Dampier, Frobisher, Smyth, Ashton Roads could see their streets become car parks. And don't be fooled by the inclusion of a modest multi-storey car park, the details of the application reveal who these spaces are really for; the new workers, staff, crew, residents are not catered for, and the capacity is too low for visitors.

It is already laughable that neighbouring streets to what is already a major employment hub and visitor draw have no parking control, and surely now is the time to resolve this. It's not the stadium's

job to fix this, it is the council's, and they've been passing the buck for too long. These plans should not be approved until a thorough and complete Residents' Parking Scheme is announced for Ashton Gate and Ashton, allowing for short-term metered visits to the park and shops where relevant. With this relatively low-cost measure in place our neighbourhood will be protected, and the stadium's objectives to reduce visits by car will become both believable and achievable.

I urge neighbours to please consider these points carefully as well as all the obvious merits of the application, and if you agree with these points then make an objection on the planning portal and demand action from your council.

Ed Pitt, Ashton Road

Macrophages protect us - they're the good guys In the June edition you printed a letter about brake dust and breathing.

The letter seems to indicate that macrophages are brake dust. This is completely wrong. Macrophages are immune cells that protect our lungs from things like bacteria.

It has been found that when brake dust is added to macrophages grown in a petri dish they react in a similar way to when treated with exhaust fumes, they are unable to kill bacteria effectively.

The study mentioned in the letter did not measure the percentage of roadside pollution that is made up of brake dust, they quote this figure from a different source which is no longer available to the public.

The study was not performed in human lungs and whilst they suggest that brake dust may contribute to feeling ill, the study does not show this.

It is important that scientific studies are quoted correctly rather than other articles which can both hype up and dilute down (and macrophages are the good guys, we wouldn't get far without them!)

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