Bins, glorious bins!
Students on the move
Bristol Waste launched their Students on the Move campaign last month which runs until 1st July. It encourages students to recycle or dispose their unwanted possessions responsibly. Extra big bins are dotted around our area including Alma Vale Road, Oakfield Place, Whiteladies Road (near the entrance to Clifton Down station), and Aberdeen Road, at the junction with Cotham Hill. These are emptied each weekday. Anyone caught leaving waste next to these bins could be charged with a criminal offence and receive a fine of up to £50,000. If you see any move-out mess, please report it on Fix My Street
Communal bins
After several requests, we are pleased that one of the communal large steel bins on Oakfield Road has finally been replaced. It had been lidless for some time and had attracted sea gull and rats. However, a long term solution is needed for these communal bin sites (mini recycling centres) which are too often used for flytipping. We will continue to push for action.
St Josephs, Cotham Hill
We’ve received a lot of emails from residents concerned about a planning application to turn St Josephs, the former care home and convent on Cotham Hill, into student accommodation. We share these concerns. We do not believe that it is an appropriate location for this use. We both met with the planning officer. Serena also met with local residents recently. Serena has put in an objection and we have also asked for the application to come to committee should the officer recommend it for approval.
Apsley Road traffic calming
The one-way section proposed as part of the Apsley Road traffic calming scheme will no longer go ahead after many local people said they didn’t want it.
There were just under 500 responses to the informal public consultation survey, around half of which were from people living in the ward.
Most people – around 74% – were against the idea of a short one-way section between Whiteladies Road and St Johns Road. However, there was support for other elements of the scheme such as speed cushions.
Apsley Road residents have had to put up with problems with traffic on their street for years. The road gets very busy with drivers using it as a rat run, including HGVs, and there have been instances of speeding up to 60 mph. Clearly, an effective traffic calming scheme will be really important.
Serena presented the consultation responses, new draft design ideas and next steps at a well-attended community meeting in June. Serena is taking feedback from the meeting to officers who will be working on the final versions of the designs. The next step will be formal statutory consultation.
A big thank you to everyone who took part in the consultation and to the Clifton Down Community Association for organising the community meeting.
CIL funding news
Congratulations to the following Clifton Down projects which will go forward to the next stage of the Community Infrastructure Levy funding applications round. This follows approval by members at the last Area Committee 3 meeting. The projects are:
• Redland Club, Burlington Road: Environmental improvements to external area
• St Paul’s Eco Arts Community Hub: Art installation to publicise and improve the communal bins (mini recycling centre) on Oakfield Place
• New sign for cyclists to warn of school children crossing (this funding may come out of a different funding programme).
Wheel-y good ideas for better cycling provision?
Do you have ideas for where more cycle racks could go in our area? Are there other small cycling improvements that could be made such as exemptions for ‘no entry’, and dropped kerbs? The council has some funding available for cycling provision across the city and it would be good to see further improvements in our neighbourhoods.
Dott is also looking for more, and better, locations for its scooter and e-bike parking. (Serena had a go on one of their scooters for the first time at a Dott Open Day last month and enjoyed it. She was chuffed with herself for not falling off!).
Please send us your ideas.
Contact us:
Cllr.george.calascione@bristol.gov.
uk
Cllr.serena.ralston@bristol.gov.uk
