Tag: Bristol City Council

• July 3, 2020

  Is the council tax reduction scheme back on the cards?

  There has been an increase of 500% in claims of the council tax reduction (CRT) scheme according to Cllr Dudd, speaking at the Cabinet meeting on 28 April 2020. Two weeks previous to that Bristol247 wrote: “Since mid-March, the applications for reduced payments have gone from an average of around 100 a week to 642 […]
• January 6, 2012

  Occupy Bristol: going, going, gone?

  

  The Bristol Council and Cathedral today announced that they are starting proceedings to evict Occupy Bristol from their position in central Bristol. The ugly mess that they occupy at College Green is offset by the message ‘excuse us for the inconvenience we’re only trying to change the world’. It has been a few months since […]
• January 9, 2011

  West End, Bristol; All part of the planning

  

  There is an intriguing post on Bristol Culture which questions the use of the terms West End and Harbourside for the city of Bristol. From where did these terms originate and why does no one seem to know to which areas they refer? It turns out I live one of the two but even I […]
• August 10, 2010

  Tall Poppy Syndrome at Bristol City Council?

  

  Tall Poppy Syndrome at Bristol City Council?, originally uploaded by still awake.