Archive for August, 2007

Public Meeting Tues 25th Sept - Conservation Area Character Appraisal

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

Hannah Smith, a Bristol City Council Planning Officer, has contacted us to say that there will be a public meeting at 6:30pm on Tuesday 25th September, at The Ark (upstairs), Cotham Road South

There will be a brief presentation on the format of character appraisals and an opportunity to make initial comments.

Hannah says that the Council “will involve local residents early on in the process and ensure their views are taken into consideration when drafting, which will hopefully result in a more useful document”.

She also says: “Formal document drafting will begin after the introductory meeting.  Once a draft has been compiled a second meeting will be held to outline the findings and open a four week period of public consultation.  I imagine that this second meeting will be sometime in mid November, in the hope that the document will be completed and adopted by the end of January 2008.”

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Party On The Hill 2007 - Sunday, August 26th

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

This annual street party takes place on St. Michael’s Hill, Bristol, UK. Proceeds from the event go to the Bristol Children’s Hospital

This Year’s Bands

  • Madame Arthur
  • Steve Payne & Maggie Thomas
  • Torn
  • Blues Before Sunrise

More details on the Party on the Hill website.

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Kingsdown morning commuter stand-off

Saturday, August 11th, 2007

Kingsdown morning commuter stand-off

Originally uploaded by Kingsdown.

This was taken a few years ago now, but here it is just as a reminder of what we still have to put up with, and to encourage you to click through to see some of the other 600 pictures on our ‘flickr’ website

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Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Review

Friday, August 10th, 2007

This is important because it becomes part of local planning policy, so could affect all sorts of development proposals that might come along in the future.

Hannah Smith, a new City Council Conservation Officer, has written to say that the work done by the Conservation Group will make ‘an excellent starting-point’, and that the Council hopes to hold a joint Public Meeting for Kingsdown and Portland Square ‘ideally during the second week in September’ followed by some drafting work and a further public meeting in October, followed by adoption of the relevant documents in mid-December.

This seems a highly ambitious timetable (particularly to those who remember the various parking scheme proposals from the early 1980s onwards, still ‘under consideration’) but we remain optimistic and look forward to working with the Council to try to get an agreed version of the character of the area and how to preserve and enhance it.

Watch this space for more details (and enter your email address in the box on the right to be notified automatically when the website is updated.

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