ANOTHER ROUND-UP OF LOCAL NEWS FROM YOUR LIB DEM TEAM

BRISLINGTON BROOK RAILINGS:

We are delighted with the new railings alongside the Brislington Brook near Water Lane. We would like to thank the local residents who joined us in campaigning for improvements and a big thank you to the team at Tesco Brislington for listening to our concerns and coming up with a great solution that will hopefully stand the test of time.

LANGTON COURT ROAD CONSULTATION STARTS:

Local residents may be aware of our long-running campaign for pedestrian safety improvements by St Anne’s Infants School in Brislington West, including pavement widening and safer crossing points. In 2019, funding was allocated for a scheme, but this failed to materialise, largely due to the pandemic and a new consultation on closing the adjacent Langton Road Bridge to motorised vehicles, which was not supported by a majority of local people.

We have tried to keep this issue in the spotlight with regular communications with council officers and questions to the Mayor at City Hall. We are pleased to say our persistence has paid off and the city Traffic Engineer has been in touch with details of a new consultation, which is much closer to what we asked for back in 2019. The aims of the proposals are to make it easier for pedestrians to cross the roads in the local area by St Anne’s School, keep as much on-street parking as possible, make sure buses, emergency vehicles, refuse vehicles and delivery vans can still get through and keep vehicles at an appropriate speed around the school. The proposals include:

At the north end either side of the bridge, provide footway build outs with dropped kerbs to improve visibility for pedestrians

• Widen the footways to provide more space for pedestrians and reduce the width of the road they need to cross. This will extend along Langton Court Road towards the school entrance.

• Outside the school entrance the road would narrow and there would be a speed table, which would help slow vehicles by the school and provide a level surface for people to cross the road.

• Provide a new zebra crossing on Langton Court Road, near the junction. The zig-zags on the approach to the zebra crossing prohibit parking, so some on-street parking will be lost (equivalent to about four cars). This is important to make sure that people using the crossing can be seen by drivers.

• The footways would also be widened and dropped kerbs with tactile paving installed at the junction of Salisbury Road and Bloomfield Road to help pedestrians cross these roads.

If you would like to make comments on the proposal, please contact the city transport team by Sunday 5 March 2023.

• Email: transport.engagement@bristol. gov.uk

• Phone: 0117 9036449 and leave a message on the answerphone

• Write to: Langton Court Road, Transport Engagement Team, PO BOX 3399, 100 Temple Street, Bristol, BS1 9NE

HELPING OUR POOL:

Last week, Jos took part in the Jubilee-athon, helping to raise vital funds for the survival of our community pool. This week, she organised a local company, MAD, to help with unblocking the drains, who did the work completely free-of-charge! The drains in the men's changing rooms have now been cleared and are much better. Unfortunately, MAD were unable to unblock the ladies’ as the drain cover had been cemented over, but they have promised to come back and help again. A big thank you to MAD https://www.maintainadrain.co.uk/

WHITE HART CONSULTATION DEADLINE:

The White Hart consultation deadline is this Saturday 11 February. The consultation is on behalf of Meadow Care Homes regarding proposals to redevelop the former White Hart in Brislington Village. The proposed redevelopment of the existing Grade II listed building/ site would provide an 80-bed care-home and some key-worker flats, along with some public facing uses. Meadow Care Homes and their project team are currently working up proposals and would like to share the plans and invite feedback from neighbours and stakeholders in advance of submitting a planning application at the end of February. The consultation material is available to view online at https://bit.ly/WhiteHartLodge

Feedback from the consultation and other key stakeholders will then be considered by the project team as they finalise the proposals and prepare the planning submission. Once the application has been submitted, there will be a further consultation period, led by the Council, when there will be another opportuni -

By Jos Clark, Liberal Democrat Councillor

(Brislington West) Email: cllr. jos.clark@bristol.gov.uk

Mobile: 07584 370429

& Andrew Varney, Liberal Democrat Councillor

(Brislington West) Email: cllr.andrew.varney@bristol. gov.uk

Mobile: 07584 183381