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Frustration as key bus stop closes for six months

There's no temporary replacement so people will just have to walk further

10 months ago

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Government warned Bristol City Council about Barton House and four other blocks in 2017

A year later, the council admitted that no structural surveys had taken place since 1970

10 months ago

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Plans submitted to decide the future of Colston Statue

We have picked out the most interesting proposals submitted to the authority in the last seven days

10 months ago

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Bristol deputy mayor told tower block residents councillors would 'risk jail' by not acting once ...

Fire chiefs expressed their doubts about Barton House's fire safety certificate at 11.30am on Tuesday, prompting the ...

10 months ago

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Evacuated Barton House tower block residents will be out 'for some time' says Bristol mayor

There is an 'apparent lack of structural ties between the floors and the load-bearing external walls'

10 months ago

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'Major incident' declared as 400 people evacuated from Bristol tower block over structural fault

Around 400 residents living in Barton House will be asked to leave their homes after a significant structural issue w...

10 months ago

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Live: Bristol City Council meeting cancelled as Barton Hill tower block 'evacuated'

BristolLive has been told council officers are working to rehouse people being removed from the building

10 months ago

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Call to ban 'disrespectful lovelocks' on Pero's Bridge in Bristol city centre

A new petition is calling for them to be removed as the bridge is dedicated to an enslaved African man

10 months ago

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Driver gets clean air zone fine as broken down van is recovered

When the photographic evidence arrived, it showed her vehicle on the back of a breakdown recovery vehicle.

10 months ago

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Council chiefs ask NHS bosses for more health services to meet growing Bristol population

It is the first time the city council has publicly demanded the NHS match the development boom in Bristol

10 months ago

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Bristol Clean Air Zone fine for woman after her broken-down van was carried through city centre

The garage Eve Scragg's van was taken to said it is quite common

10 months ago

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Charity in charge of Bristol Beacon to hand back £8million profits

Details of a new 30-year deal between Bristol City Council, which owns the concert hall, and Bristol Music Trust (BMT...

10 months ago

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Bristol swimming pool gets Government grant to heat water this winter

It's just over a year since the people of Knowle took ownership of their historic swimming pool

10 months ago

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Sophie Grubb

Bristol's Remembrance Sunday parade timings and full list of road closures

Military personnel and veterans and will march from College Green down to the Cenotaph this morning

10 months ago

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Filwood Fantastic - The cynical, forgotten Bristol community with £14 million to spend

There's understandable cynicism on the Broadway as a Government minister gets the tour, but this time change really i...

10 months ago

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New tower blocks on one of Bristol's most famous streets take shape and could see first residents...

It's been a long five year saga but now the £30m transformation at the end of one of Bristol's most famous streets is...

10 months ago

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New Temple Meads station entrance will take more than two years to open as construction work begins

It will be finished next year but won't actually open until 2026

10 months ago

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Bristol community 'will feel levelled up' by my millions says Government minister

The Minister for Levelling Up toured the only project being funded in Bristol today (Thursday)

10 months ago

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Calls for inquiry into council blunder that allowed protected hedge to be cut down

How 12ft of an ancient hedgerow has become a huge issue in Bristol

10 months ago

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Bristol's housing need snubbed in South Gloucestershire Council's new 15-year blueprint

City council's plea to provide land for desperately-needed homes ignored

10 months ago

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South Bristol's new Youth Zone launches with a new name and a prank

"So far this process has been such an amazing experience and something I thought I’d never be part of"

10 months ago

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Hundreds sign petition asking Bristol City Council to join calls for Gaza ceasefire

The petition also asks for City Hall to be lit up for Palestine as it was for Israel

10 months ago

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Drug den which left neighbours 'living in fear' closed down by court

"Drug paraphernalia and a BB gun found in the property" say police

10 months ago

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'Iconic' building set for £6.7m upgrade as Bristol estate 'levels up'

It's part of a £14.5 million investment from the Government's Levelling Up fund

10 months ago

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Victory for campaigners as heritage chiefs say Brunel's first Bristol bridge must stay where it is

Bosses at the SS Great Britain wanted to move it

10 months ago

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Five-storey block of flats bid for former office building in South Bristol

This week’s round-up of notable planning applications submitted to Bristol City council

10 months ago

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Nuclear bunker near DWP offices set to reopen as part of 160-home development

The former DWP offices and driving test centre will be demolished to make way for new homes - but only a fraction wil...

10 months ago

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Bristol council tax reduction scheme cuts on hold after legal challenge

The city council is relaunching the public consultation from Monday, October 30, amid claims the plans are "unlawful"

10 months ago

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Bristol Rovers South Stand to be granted planning permission in two weeks

Exclusive: The fresh application has been fast-tracked through City Hall's planning process and now fans could be in ...

10 months ago

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Bristol footbridge to close for two years from today

Sparke Evans Park Bridge is a footbridge that links the Paintworks development by Bath Road with Sparke Evans Park in...

10 months ago

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Bristol has third highest number of 'bad air days' every year in Britain

Air quality breaches World Health Organisation guidelines more days a year in Bristol than in London, Manchester and ...

11 months ago

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Signs of progress for major regeneration project set to change the face of South Bristol

It's the biggest single regeneration scheme in Bristol but while work is fast-moving at two sites, there could be hop...

11 months ago

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Where all the homes in North Bristol will be built over the next 15 years

Locations for nearly 35,000 homes across the city have been identified in the council's Local Plan. Here are those se...

11 months ago

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Bristol City Council faces £32m budget shortfall as funding 'fails to keep pace with need'

Urgent cost-cutting required as worst-case scenario places funding gap at a whopping £81million

11 months ago

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Bristol landlord jailed for evicting tenant who found him using her bathroom

Council chiefs said Kevin De Carteret's actions were 'deplorable'

11 months ago

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Hope for Bristol's Yew Tree Farm as homes plan ditched

Yew Tree Farm has faced a series of planning battles in recent years

11 months ago

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Up to 1,400 homes earmarked for greenbelt countryside on edge of Bristol

The draft Local Plan includes three sites to be removed from protected greenbelt status

11 months ago

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MP calls on council to 're-run' the meeting which gave green light to shopping centre demolition

South Bristol's MP has told City Hall chief executive that a replay is necessary to 'restore trust' in the council

11 months ago

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Major blueprint for Bristol unveiled including nearly 35K new homes by 2040

New draft Local Plan sets out how the city's land should be used for housing, employment, retail and transport