No photos allowed in Bristol's Temple Quay area!

bristol | corporations | news report Monday June 08, 2009 17:58 by Goanna hannahdurrant at googlemail dot com

Strolling aimlessly the other day as I waited for a friend to arrive at the train station, I took a few snaps of the new gherkin-type building they're putting up, because it looked interesting from an angle underneath the Valentine Bridge, when...

.. a hapless security guard called over to me and asked me to stop taking photos because his employers, GVA Grimley, had told him he has to do this. He was very nice and we had a good chat . But he did tell me that the site around Temple Quay is apparently private and the owners don't want people taking photos.

I was scandalised of course as I thought this was a public space along the canal. Has part of our city been sold off to a business who can ban photography on its land? Under what law? Anti-terrorism?!

Surely this can't be true?!