Protect and Vaccinate Scrap the Mayor!
New link to Hungerford Road:
Your local Lib Dems have succeeded in getting a referendum on the future of the directly elected mayoral system in Bristol, keeping one of our key election promises. The current mayoral system puts too much power into the hands of one person, who can ignore votes in council and routinely dodges scrutiny and accountability. Under the current occupant, the budget for the Mayor’s Office has become increasingly bloated and poor decision-making such as the Bristol Arena debacle, Bristol Energy and Brislington Meadows has cost us all dearly. It’s a system we can no longer afford. Both your Brislington West councillors spoke in support of the motion at Full Council last month, which went on to win by 41 votes to 24. As a result, we will be having a legally binding referendum on the future of governance in Bristol on Thursday 5 May, 2022, a date for your diaries!
We are delighted to see the submission of a planning application for a new pedestrian and cycle link between Hungerford Road and the proposed new development at Flowers Hill. This will be a convenient cut-through for residents wishing to access the retail units and public transport on the Bath Road. From our first meeting with the developers of Flowers Hill in early 2021, this was one of our key requests for the scheme, together with a community use for the listed War Rooms. Please feel free to look at the plans for the pedestrian and cycle link and submit comments: https://pa.bristol.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=R4MN9ADNI5X00
If you would like to get involved in the campaign to ‘Scrap the Mayor’, please sign up here: https://www.bristollibdems.org/getinvolved
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Protect and Vaccinate: We are pleased that following the awarding of a central government grant, a small group of vulnerable adults with a history of rough sleeping during the winter will be offered a place to stay at a local hotel in Brislington West until the end of March. We are hopeful that this scheme will lead to an uptake in the COVID-19 vaccine, which is currently low in this group.
