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November 2021 No. 71
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Ashton Gate plans will make parking even worse say residents
Bedminster Green Plot 5 update Page 5 Back in the day in Bristol in the 1950s Page 28-29
By Harry Mottram. The residents of the area around Ashton Gate football ground fear a parking nightmare if the plans to develop land currently occupied by a car park and a retail site are realised. The Mayor of Bristol Marvin Rees has ruled out for now more resident parking zones as the received wisdom suggests they tend to push problem parking into the neighbouring streets. On match days the situation has been bad for many years with fans parking their vehicles as close as they can to the Continued on page 3
Sports News Page 31
Western Harbour development could wipe away garden centre The Wicked Witch of Knowle Page 34 What's On Page 40-41
By Harry Mottram. The Riverside Garden Centre remains under threat from one of the options outlined in the Western Harbour development plans. Better known as Cumberland Basin, after consultations including a public meeting chaired by the Mayor Marvin
Rees in which the residents expressed their frustrations and objections to the plans Bristol City Council 'went back to the drawing board.' After that there was a further public consultation in September called Harbour Hopes in which residents were encouraged to
engage positively with the various versions of the redevelopment plans. The options would include the dismantling and replacing of the Plimsoll Swing Bridge built in the 1960s over the River Avon New Cut and the locks. Continued on page 3
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