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Bristol Parks Forum latest newsletter includes pieces on: City Nature Challenge, Protecting heritage Lottery funding for parks and the Bristol Local Plan's proposals for Specially Protected Local Green Spaces and Reserved Open Spaces.
If you haven’t yet seen this petition from the Parks Alliance via 38 degrees, we hope you will sign it. We need all the support that we can get in opposing the cuts to parks in Bristol. See petition - Details
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As part of its Go Ultra-Low West (GULW) programme, Bristol City Council aims to use its funding to install around 120 new public electric vehicle charging points across Bath and North-East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
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A local community group, Let's Walk Bishopston, has researched, developed and published a series of attractive local walking maps.
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Local resident and historian, Mike Manson will give a talk on the hidden history of the St Andrews area, based on his book of the same name.
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Bristol City Council is putting the running of park cafes out to tender. This would mean the unique, locally owned and very popular cafe in St Andrews Park would no longer be allowed to operate there.
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A probe into offshore ownership in Bristol shows that properties owned by secretive tax havens are to be found anywhere, including Bishopston, not just in plush mansion areas.
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Recent concerns about Bristol Trees in Crisis have been complemented by better news on trees in Bishopston, thanks to local community efforts affecting two of our tree-lined streets.
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All are welcome to Wassail at the Horfield Organic Community Orchard on Saturday 13 January 2018, 2 - 4pm
Toast the orchard for a fruitful harvest
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Longmead Avenue in Horfield, BS7 needs 8 new trees to replace diseased ones that are being felled. A crowdfunding attempt is being made to raise enough money for replacement trees in this road. See: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/longmead-avenue-trees