What is a 'Barriers to growth'? SWRDA don't say be they want to remove them. Do tell us more... read full story / add a comment

SWRDA or the South West Regional Development Agency, is the quango sitting over our region like a SW-wide octopus with the tentacles in (and round) lots and lots of places. It has been under attack in cyberspace for some time now here and by bloggers such as the Bristol Blogger. Well now the other bits of local media have finally caught up and weighed in to examine them - and their £2 million spending on foreign offices. read full story / add a comment

Radio 4 recentlt did an interesting program questioning the value of the Regional Development Agencies, the RDAs. We at SWRDAwatch, who keep a beady eye on the activities and spending of our local RDA found this an interesting listen... read full story / add a comment

Around a 100 National Union of Teachers members and local trade union activists turned up to hear NUT general Secretary Steve Sinnot in Bristol last Monday outline the reasons why the biggest teachers’ union has decided to ballot over Brown’s insulting pay offer of 2.45%. read full story / add a comment

Chairman of Bath, Councillor Ian Dewey and North East Somerset Council, played host, at the Bath Guildhall on Saturday 9th February, to an ‘Elegance In The Afternoon’ Champagne Tea - Charity Fashion and Clothes Show. It was sponsored by Bath Western Riverside Project Developers Crest Nicholson. A dad and a few of his daughters had a message to present. read full story / add a comment

Bristol City Council are now consulting on the “Bristol Development Framework” for the next 20 years. If you care about how Bristol develops (29,500 new homes, airport expansion, affordable housing, climate change, greenspaces, outdoor advertising), please read it and respond. It’s dull stuff, but it will direct what gets built where over the next 20 years. The developers are certainly involved, so if you don’t get involved, don’t moan about all the crap development that goes on.

Consultation ends 22nd February.

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The South West needs Affordable and New Social Housing stock. As does most of Britain? read full story / add a comment

Out of the darkness comes 3 TMO's in order to put assunder City Council plans to sell out tenants through moving towards an ALMO read full story / add a comment

What a surprise, Bristol City Council cock things up once again! And SWRDA vote against Bristol Arena too. Who are these people?! Bristol is meant to be the gateway to the South West. What a joke! We loose IMAX, Wild Walk, (both closed), the British and Commonwealth Museum is moving to London, the Bristol Old Vic Theatre Royal is under threat of closure but we are being told it needs a revamp, (pull the other one). read full story / add a comment

While leafing through the Electoral Commission’s register of donations to political parties we find a most unusual couple of entries. read full story / add a comment

Currently a consultation is being undertaken as you will see from the attached document the powers of the HMB (Selected) are to be increased but not just that, their terms are to be more closer alligned to that of an RSL or ALMO read full story / add a comment

A couple of stories on the SWRDA's expenses... read full story / add a comment

Act with us now to prevent the Council from finalising the sell-off

Come to a short meeting at Café Delight on Sunday 25 th November at 7:00 pm read full story / add a comment

OK the results are in, Bristol\'s Citizens Jury on Waste have come up with the answer we all expected we need to recycle more, but at what cost......................................... read full story / add a comment

Well out of copyright and hereby published in the virtual commons of Bristol a historic charter of our deere city. And if anyone knoweth whereby the City Council or Avon and Somerset Police do contreveneth this here statute may it be made known and those cases tryed in the courts of our fair city. read full story / add a comment

Yet again trusted tenants on the Housing Management Board deny other tenants their rights, by turning their back on them all 29,000 by clawing back the City's Enviromental Improvement Budgets, and in turn passing it back to Officers to fill the black hole created by failing the business plan, in trying to achieve the decent home standard read full story / add a comment

Audit Commission slams new Housing Management Board (HMB). Elected members of the City Wide Tenants Forum call for the resignations from HMB over their decision on a current consultation to include a City of Bristol Federation
City Wide Tenants Forum carry the voice of 29000+ tenants. read full story / add a comment

Meet Peter Mooney.

Along with the majority of people in Bristol, including most of our elected councillors, you probably have no idea who the hell Peter Mooney is. But you deserve to know because Mooney has cost you an awful lot of money. read full story / add a comment

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Bristol City Council deserves condemnation for allowing a situation to develop where approx 30 Poplar trees on the former Imperial Sports Ground in Knowle now have to be urgently removed for safety reasons. read full story / add a comment

Check out The Stokes Croft Conservation Area document to be found further down the page, and please make a comment to the urban design team. This is the key to our making the idea of Stokes Croft as a Cultural Quarter and gallery a permanent reality. And this is serious stuff... We really can make this happen... PLEASE MAKE YOUR OPINION HEARD! THIS IS VITAL! YOU HAVE UNTIL AUGUST 24th... read full story / add a comment