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Sep 25 University of Bristol (UoB) Community Liaison Update Dear CHIS Members, please find below an update from UoB regarding community liaison. Dear community members, As you may…
Jan 31 On Saturday March 2nd 2024 at 11am at Emmanuel Court, Guthrie Road, Clifton, BS8 3EY a CHIS green plaque will be dedicated by the Lord-Lieutenant Mrs Peaches Golding OBE…
Sep 20, 2023 CHIS erected a commemorative plaque at 6, Victoria Square, Clifton, to honour Lieutenant Colonel Ferdinand Simeon Le Quesne VC, RAMC, who lived there, on Saturday 2nd…
Jul 1, 2023 STOP PRESS. GOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS. The decision by THAT group to abandon their development of the WHS site in Clifton Down Road on account of escalating construction costs…
Jun 1, 2023 New Observatory Children’s playground drainage has been installed this May 2023 by Bailey Civils Ltd after years of complaints about the muddy play surface to Bristol City…
May 11, 2023 Victoria Square Gardens by Dick Iles Victoria Square took almost forty years to complete from 1837 to 1874. There is some doubt that it was ever really planned as an entity.…
May 4, 2023 As you will know from reports in the media, Bristol City Council’s Development Control Committee A voted on April 26th by a 6-3 majority to grant planning permission…
Apr 30, 2023 The following letter was sent on 26 April 2023. To: Thangam Debbonaire MP, Dan Norris Mayor of WECA, Cllrs O’Rourke, Grant, Denyer, Hathway, Makawi, Poultney, Fodor and…
Mar 27, 2023 "The magnificent setting of the old St Andrews Churchyard and the Lime Walk Cemetery Clifton was the setting for the unveiling of the Sarah Guppy family memorial…
Mar 21, 2023 CELEBRATE SARAH GUPPY 11am Saturday 25 March St Andrews Churchyard, Lime Walk, Clifton Sarah Guppy was the first woman in the world to register a patent for a bridge - in…
Feb 21, 2023 Owing to the indisposition of our speaker, Sheila Hannon, Tuesday's talk has had to be postponed to a date yet to be fixed
Feb 15, 2023 Members might have noticed that the CHIS notice board next to the entrance to Clifton Library has been missing for some time. Sadly, the old wooden board, which had served us…
Feb 4, 2023 Following the successful legal challenge by CHIS issued in respect of Bristol City Council's approval in February last year of Bristol Zoo's planning Application for 62…
Nov 20, 2022 The artist, writer and eco-feminist activist Monica Sjöö lived for some years at The Dragon Workshop 47 Princess Victoria Street where a CHIS commemorative plaque was…
Jul 23, 2022 The Clifton and Hotwells Improvement Society reiterates in the strongest possible terms its opposition to this inappropriate and damaging set of proposals. CHIS is also more…
Jun 27, 2022 CHIS strongly opposes these depressingly unimaginative and potentially destructive proposals which are entirely unacceptable in their current form. The scheme includes half a…
Jun 25, 2022 On 23rd April, 2020, a green commemorative plaque was erected at Elton House, Rodney Place, Clifton, to honour the pioneer paediatrician, Dr Beryl Corner OBE, JP, MD, FRCP,…
Jun 17, 2022 PRESS RELEASE Bristol City Council accepts defeat after local conservation charity’s legal challenge over homes plan Residents have forced Bristol City Council to back down…
Mar 26, 2022 In September 2020 a green CHIS plaque was erected at 38, Royal York Crescent, Clifton, to honour the novelist, poet and journalist Angela Carter, who lived in the ground…
Jan 29, 2022 The Transport Engagement Team at Bristol City Council launched an important consultation which directly affects residents of BS8. It is innocuously entitled 'Consultation on…
Oct 10, 2021 Members will have received with their September Newsletter an insert containing a voucher to enable them to access the Clifton's Origins & Architecture Walking Tour App…
Sep 19, 2021 The Council has just launched the Harbour Hopes creative engagement programme that will start a city-wide conversation on the future of Western Harbour, the regeneration area…
Sep 9, 2021 The following is a statement released to the media by OurWorld Bristol. A community group has successfully asked Bristol City Council to list Bristol Zoo Gardens as a…
Jul 31, 2021 BRISTOL ZOOLOGICAL PARK DEVELOPMENT PROPOSALS FOR THE WESTERN CARPARK, BRISTOL ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS 21/01999/F SUMMARY SCHEME APPRAISAL FOR LOCAL RESIDENTS’ GROUPS by MICHAEL…
Jul 2, 2021 CHIS has developed a self-guided walking tour entitled 'Clifton's Origins & Architecture', which is now available via the free-to-download VoiceMap app. It was written…
Feb 28, 2021 Many of you will be aware that the Zoo will be moving in 2022 from Clifton to its Wild Place Project site at Cribbs Causeway. The intention is to redevelop the Clifton site…
Feb 22, 2021 In the mid-50s the City Council took responsibility for this tranquil spot in the heart of Clifton. Although well maintained for a long period, by the mid-80s it was…
Mar 21, 2020 You will perhaps have read in the Chairman's preface to the March Newsletter that the CHIS Clifton Village Walking App, prepared by our treasurer, James Simmonds, will be…
Sep 27, 2019 Introduction. Neither the Western Approach nor the Hybrid Approach is acceptable due to visual damage to the Suspension Bridge and adjacent landscape by the encroachment of a…
Jan 20, 2019 Although no high rise buildings are currently proposed for BS8, CHIS is extremely concerned that the policy of the Mayor appears to be to promote and encourage such buildings…
Sep 27, 2016 Recently we made some changes to the Planning Map on the CHIS website, which we hope make it more useful. The Planning Map by default shows the last 6 weeks of Planning…
Mar 4, 2016 Our latest web news is that all planning applications for BS8 are now displayed on our site immediately they appear on the BCC planning site. The applications are shown both…
Jan 15, 2016 A comprehensive document entitled 'Bristol's Tree Champions' has just been put on the website. It is a database of some 200 trees within the city that are either the largest…
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