You Councillors Say

Your Councillors say...

Ashley Ward is one of the largest in the city and as such has 3 elected councillors. Jude and Tim (Green ) and Amirah (Labour) have been working on your behalf for the last few months. Here are some of our highlights. We were recently able to allocate capital funds to improve Montpelier Park. Working with local parents we presented our case for £125,000 to improve the facilities and equipment in this well used small park. We also allocated smaller amounts for St. Andrews Park and Narroways nature reserve. This was from our CIL (community infrastructure levy) funding. CIL is money that is levied when developers build in our city and which can be spent on infrastructure improvements that benefit the community.

There will be more CIL money to be allocated in 2022 . If your community group has ideas about how to use our CIL funds please contact us. We will arrange a community meeting to discuss ideas in the New Year CIL funds are generated by developments like Westmoreland House/ Carriage works on Stokes Croft. This brownfield site housing and retail complex is nearly finished and some new residents have already moved in. We had a sneak preview and have to say it’s a credit to both the developers (PG) who have done well with a very a difficult site and the Carriageworks Action Group whose hard work around community engagement and planning issues has contributed to a great final scheme. Brooks Dye Works is also nearing completion and some other good news is that the long awaited crossing opposite Scrapstore and the Mosque is on its way. This was part of the original ask from residents as part of the planning application many years ago.

Stokes Croft, Montpelier and St Paul’s have been hit by a wave of graffiti. Tim has been working with local residents and the council around graffiti around Ashley Rd/Stokes Croft. He has met with Sovereign housing, PG the developers for carriage works and BCC officers to coordinate actions to clean up the area. Early days but if we can work together we can work together to tackle this. One main message is please, please report graffiti using the council's web form, if it’s not reported it doesn’t get cleaned !!!

In December, Amirah and Jude, the local police and BCC officers heard from residents on a community walk about in St Paul’s. We heard that many residents are still unhappy with the waste services and discussed improvements to local green spaces along with many other issues. We will be holding more walkabouts in the New Year.

We wish everyone a Happy New Year, Your councillors Jude Tim Amirah