Bristol, UK

Ita a measure of priorities that the council can't pay it's staff properly to organise the streets to be swept or rubbish to be collected but can hoard millions of pounds worth of art.

Another well deserved honour for our recently departed "mayor".

He'll be lecturing in How to get money out of big industry whilst in a position of power starting next year.

> LSTD: We will not tolerate drug use. > > Bristol: Hold my pills....

>Ms Vittori said she was "unaware" about about the potential conflict of interest, adding it is a "great shame that this did not come to light earlier in the process".

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Cries in Mayor Marvin 😭

Bristol Council have decided not to build Bristol arena in Bristol but in the neighbouring county. Instead they're guaranteed rent for forty years to some landlords. Makes sense 😅.

>there are respects in which (Bristol City Council) are not adequately performing their function of determining applications for planning permission

The Greens came under fire for voting against Labour’s plans without providing alternative solutions. With councils are going bankrupt elsewhere in the country, the stakes are high as Bristol prepares to ditch its mayoral system.

Residents of Barton House are able to return to their homes from Tuesday following the publication of a number of reports confirming that the building is safe.

An article on the funding of the refurbishment of the Bristol Beacon

> "I was told in December the ground rent would be increased. Then I was informed the pitch was also being put up for tender," he said. > > "Finally we were told a successful application for this tender would also be the one presenting the highest percentage figure of annual turnover they were willing to give. > > "It's so very short-sighted. The council is sucking the life out of Bristol."

"finally"

Copied from the Bristol subreddit https://old.reddit.com/r/bristol/comments/194r3n8/missing_child_please_help_find_trinity/

Bristol has gone full circle 🤣. Your car is damaging the environment.... err it's electric.

Bristol council once again proving that Bristol isn't a good place to do business.

It appears all you need for an honour is to be an affront to local democracy.... sigh. 😢

The man in charge of Bristol’s housing in 2017 said he was not passed a letter from the government warning of safety concerns with tower blocks like Barton House - which was sent on the same day the city council’s chief executive suddenly resigned.

A report from November 15th on the Barton Hill tower block evacuation.

Criminal justice and antiracist campaigners have raised concerns over an app being used by schools in Bristol to “monitor and profile” pupils and their families.

An organiser of a Black Lives Matter protest has admitted taking money from a fundraising page set up before the toppling of Edward Colston's statue.

A plan for a new mass rapid transit system that involves some underground tunnels under Bristol is needed, is achievable and work towards creating it should continue - that’s the conclusion of a report written by senior transport chiefs at the West of England Combined Authority. The report - a draft of which has been seen by Bristol Live - is to be submitted to a key meeting of WECA on October 6, and makes it clear that while it will be expensive and cause a lot of upheaval, Bristol, Bath and the wider West of England needs it and it ‘can be delivered’.

A newly created wetland habitat north of Bristol is due to open to the public and birdwatchers next month.

The large wetlands includes four kilometres of new public footpaths and has already proved popular with different species of birds.

Hallen Marsh, north of Avonmouth and Lawrence Weston, has been turned into a wetland habitat as part of flood defence works led by the Avonmouth and Severnside Enterprise Area.

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Parents, teenagers and local councillors have been left furious after a South Bristol school scrapped its entire academic A-level provision less than 24 hours before the courses were due to start.

Work to complete the so-called Old Market ‘gap’ between the Old Market roundabout and Castle Park is starting on Monday.

The scheme is due to be completed by April 2024.

Councils in England have been given new legal powers to issue fines between £175 and £300 to households who emit more than 3g of smoke per hour from chimneys.

A path along the river in the centre of Bristol that closed nearly six years ago will remain shut for another week - after contractors missed the ‘definitive’ deadline announced by the council last month.

Anyone at Dean Lane yesterday? Any good photos/videos?

I'm sure the "that's not how budgets work" apologists would like to comment on this. It's public money they're wasting. Nice job if you can get it.