Find out here about "Clean Air Bishopston", the background and aims of the project , and who's running and supporting it. ...
04 May 2018
This ambitious three year project to protect, conserve and improve the wildlife and heritage of the Lower Severn Levels landscape has now come to its end. It has achieved a huge amount in its three years, ...
19 December 2018
... Forgotten Landscape': forgottenlandscape is now successfully working on conserving and restoring the heritage of this unique area.
Their latest newsletter gives exciting news of a separate major projec ...
09 August 2018
The “Clean Air Bishopston” project was launched today, 17 May 2018, as the notion that air pollution represents a “public health emergency” becomes increasingly accepted and drives people into action. ...
17 May 2018
Horfield and District Allotments Association (Bristol) is pleased to announce further details of our community history project to celebrate our 100th Anniversary. Two initial events have been planned. ...
28 March 2017
... North Baths project which was put on hold in November last year when the council terminated its agreement with developer Chatsworth Homes. The work, which started last week (w/c 25 July), will bring about ...
19 August 2016
At a meeting today Nov 26th, Chatsworth Homes, the developer of the Baths conversion project , has been told by Bristol City Council to leave the site within six days. Two accounts of this meeting can ...
26 November 2015
Bristol City Council have given Chatsworth Homes, the Project developers, just two weeks to 'sort out their act' otherwise they will take over the project from them.
For full details of this lates ...
04 November 2015
The Bristol Bike Project is an organisation that seems to be going from strength to strength. It has an active website and its most recent news includes a new scheme for adults who are socially isolated...... ...
05 October 2015
As part of Bristol 2015 – the year that we celebrate being European Green Capital – grants are being awarded to project s that help change attitudes and behaviour towards sustainable living. In our ...
16 September 2014
... on areas of greater need and areas with additional ideas and project s.
What is the funding for?
The aim of the fund is to enable local groups to launch events and projects that will help change attitudes ...
21 August 2014
... surgery, no new library and no access to our well-used short-term car park.
Participants on the project appear to be blaming each other for the delays, which are already costly. If litigation should ...
27 July 2014
This city-wide project has emerged through collaboration, and in response to a wide range of shared aims, interests and ambitions of the partners involved.
The project aims to contribute to the ...
14 July 2014
Over the past three years the Wild City Project has organised a series of events and worked with park groups and others on many of the City’s remarkable and varied nature reserves.
Unfortunately, ...
26 February 2014
... project s exploring local heritage and culture.
One of the key roles for Bristol Record Office will be to add thousands of images of Bristol from their Vaughan postcard collection to the award-winning ...
22 February 2014
... walking routes across and through that area of our neighbourhood.
The project aims to develop a local action plan to implement, where possible, the recommendations in the 2011 BCC Walking Strategy; ...
15 February 2014
... bees and hoverflies.
This is a joint exercise with universities in Reading, Leeds and Edinburgh. This year the Urban Pollinators Project in Bristol has created 15 large meadows in parks and schools ...
04 September 2013
... exciting project up to full steam ahead. We are hosting an Open Day on Tuesday 1st of May.* Come along if you want to join the team at 11am, 2pm or 6:30pm for a site tour and a spot of gentle pottering. ...
26 April 2012
... 14, page 38). Edinburgh city transformation project : initial consultation has just ended on proposals to make the city centre better for those walking and cycling and arriving on public transport. The ...
08 January 2019
Topics in this latest edition include, Bristol Rovers Events permission, First's reduced local bus services, local Network Rail upgrades and spending of developers' S106 money on community project s. Yo ...
11 December 2018
The most recent e-newletter from Eleanor Combley includes funding for local project s and an update on the Council's consultation on the 20 mph limit. It can be read here ...
14 November 2018
... practice withdrew from the project , as a result of the endless delays and certain aspects of the building as constructed which were not suitable for their requirements, it is good to see that it will now ...
05 November 2018
... Bath and Northeast Somerset councils. Some of this money will initially be used to pay for an overall Project Manager, who is now in post. She will look at the structure of other authorities’ similar bodies. ...
04 November 2018
A recent piece in Bristol 24/7 looks at how cycling in Bristol is being encouraged by organisations like Bristol Bike Project . Zoe Banks Gross, scientist and community campaigner is working to encourage ...
04 November 2018
... ey residential tower on the southeast edge of Castle Park (Former ambulance station) (Nov 2017) 22 storey residential tower in Redcliff Quarter, towering above Finzels Reach (30 Nov 2016)
Project s in discussi ...
07 September 2018
... or leading project s or action hours, but I am still doing some of the admin. Rob has stepped back from his fly tipper catching but he is keeping a broad watching brief about waste. Bristol Waste graffiti ...
08 August 2018
... be the largest joined-up network in the UK. Read more about this hugely impressive project here ...
30 June 2018
... Bishopston Library.
In addition, all the details of the Society's organised trips and their involvement in Bristol's major planning project s can be found at Bristol Civic Society
Readers may also ...
09 June 2018
... rst one goes."
Please read on for Gavin's explanation, and apply for a place if after understanding the expectations he sets out you are interested in taking part.
What is it?
It's a "citizen sensing" ...
29 May 2018
We are delighted to announce the launch of Clean Air Bishopston, a project developed by The Bishopston Society and a range of partners to address the massive problem of air pollution and work towards cleaner ...
17 May 2018
The Clean Air Bishopston project team is hatching plans for Bishopston residents and organisations to take part in this year’s Clean Air Day.
Taking place on Thursday 21st June, this national event is ...
05 May 2018
Clean Air Bishopston is a Bishopston Society project run by a small informal project team representing the following partners:-
The Bishopston Society
Sustainable Bishopston
Bristol Walking ...
04 May 2018
... showcase positive actions that can be and are being taken on clean air, and keep you informed about our project .
We are not experts on air pollution and clean air, and don’t pretend to offer definitive ...
04 May 2018
... of life of future generations.
Our aims: educate – advocate – agitate – communicate – investigate.
Our objectives: we are currently working on four initial sub-project s:-
Encourage more walkin ...
04 May 2018
... s while making sure residents are happy and the economy grows in their home town.
The game has been designed by ClairCity, a European project looking at how to improve wellbeing and reduce air polluti ...
04 May 2018
Through its association with the ClairCity project team, Clean Air Bishopston is bringing Skylines to Bishopston for some fun but serious community events.
We're going to be encouraging some teamin ...
04 May 2018
OK but don’t highway works and transport project s rely on Council expertise?
Yes, but community input can be very important, if not essential, in identifying them in the first place and speaking up for ...
04 May 2018
... calming. Its status however appears to be have remained "pending" ever since, because of the indefinite suspension of action to implement devolved local traffic project s, even those already agreed and allocat ...
04 May 2018
... the project ’s outcomes, and the current transport policy of the authority is silent on this waste.
All we know at the time of writing (April 2018) is that parking and 20mph limits are under review (since ...
04 May 2018
... place.
You can help beat the bugbears. We're building a group of residents who will work together to develop and champion traffic project s that will clean up our air.
Join us in pressing for the abov ...
04 May 2018
... n (CAB) project team will have some helpful suggestions. You can find out more about the CAB project and its imminent launch by Bishopton Society and its partners (see preview) ......the project logo sho ...
01 May 2018
... s here
Southern walk - Monday 21 May 4.30 - 6.30pm - details here
For further information and registration you can contact Kevin by email.
These walks emerge from our Clean Air Bishopston proje ...
27 April 2018
... 23 more takeaways, 13 more hairdressers but 40 less clothes shops, 33 fewer butchers, and 22 fewer confectioners. If one were to naively project these trends forward 10 years, Gloucester Road would b ...
20 April 2018
As part of ClairCity's Bristol video project , it is running a “Clean Air Walk” with Bristol WalkFest. ClairCity is an innovative project involving thousands of people in cities across Europe, enablin ...
12 March 2018
... about the bizarre genesis of the Cabot Project , a project of international renown.
Although John Cabot is at the heart of the story, his three expeditions are set in the context of the discovery enterprise ...
11 March 2018
... e series has now been extended.
The extension map, "Let's Walk North Bristol", emerges from a project called "Walk Your Way to Health", and features routes from Bishopston GP surgeries to Southmead Hosp ...
27 February 2018
... announce a walking project , an initiative on public transport and traffic choices, and an information portal with ideas on how citizen-led responses can make a difference, as well as those we want the ...
20 February 2018
... ns to join together with us on project s involving common concerns;
communications and membership development - we are drawing more attention to our core work and reaching out to a wider public, consult ...
08 February 2018
... November report on the crowd-sourced funding attempt to rescue eight diseased trees on Longmead Avenue, it's now been announced that enough money has been raised to enable this project to go ahead. Th ...
09 January 2018
... :-
"As the design architect and partner in charge of this project and the Planning Advisor to The Bishopston Society, I am writing to express my concern at how the design concept of this building ha ...
04 January 2018
The CHEESE pilot project was setup in March 2015 with funding from Bristol Green Capital 2015. The CHEESE Project aims to reduce domestic energy losses, at low cost, by up to a third. This saves money, ...
02 May 2016
Main aim: to provide a valuable and empowering service for underprivileged and marginalised groups of people within our community whose lives would greatly improve through the benefit of having accessible, ...
23 April 2016
... project s and social businesses from conception to sustainability. ...
23 April 2016
Mission statement: Bristol is one of the leading city’s in the UK for public art commissioning and for its programme of project s with artists of local, national and international significance. Our programme ...
23 April 2016
