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We asked 98 Local Authorities:
Since the introduction of the mandatory #BNG regime on 12 February 2024, have you adopted, or are you planning to adopt, any policies requiring developers to deliver BNG greater than the minimum 10% BNG required?
bristoltreeforum.org/wp-contβ¦.
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We asked 98 Local Authorities:
Since the introduction of the mandatory #BNG regime on 12 February 2024, have you adopted, or are you planning to adopt, any policies requiring developers to deliver BNG greater than the minimum 10% BNG required?
bristoltreeforum.org/wp-contβ¦.
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We have now submitted our response to the most recent Bristol City Council Local Plan Main Modifications proposals:
bristoltreeforum.org/wp-contβ¦
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May 25
26/11977/VC | Oak
@AlexGSeabrook: "An oak tree in Withywood.. could soon be chopped down. The tree is located in a back garden of a house on Oaktree Gardens, on the very edge of the city, but is βcompletely hollow insideβ."
Hollow is OK? I hope the tree is saved
@BristolTreeFora
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Here is our first response earlier this year - bristoltreeforum.org/wp-contβ¦
We won the fight but the war is not over.
What next? An appeal or will they continue to bring their backstop application forward?
In the meantime, the threat to our open spaces, this time in the west of the city, continues - bristoltreeforum.org/wp-contβ¦
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We won the fight but the war is not over.
What next? An appeal or will they continue to bring their backstop application forward?
In the meantime, the threat to our open spaces, this time in the west of the city, continues - bristoltreeforum.org/wp-contβ¦
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The Trymside Tiny Forest in Southmead - tinyforest.earthwatch.org.ukβ¦ - has had the interior and back of the wood chopped down for a rough sleeper encampment.π₯
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The saga of Brislington Meadows is another example. The PC B voted to refuse it, yet the latest report recommends approval:
democracy.bristol.gov.uk/docβ¦.
We have submitted this statement in a final attempt to head off this environmental disaster: bristoltreeforum.org/wp-contβ¦
May 15
New investigation into Bristolβs planning culture, the Chief Planner role and the Princess Street development.
open.substack.com/pub/templeβ¦
@AudreySuzanne @stillawake @bristol_citizen @GeorgeFergusonx @DanicaPriest @EdPlowden @BristolTreeFora @MrDanack @martr101 @fadumofarah2023
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The saga of Brislington Meadows rumbles on while we are all quietly being sold down the river: democracy.bristol.gov.uk/docβ¦.
We have submitted this statement in a final attempt to head off this disaster:
bristoltreeforum.org/wp-contβ¦
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We need proper housing in Bristol, not poor-quality high-rises that damage our cityscape. It's time for the council to rethink how planning decisions are made. Iβve backed the call for a full debate to fix this. Join in and sign here: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitioβ¦ via @38degrees
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Tree protection law is no longer fit for purpose:
bristol247.com/opinion/your-β¦.
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Today is βD Dayβ for Bristol and Brislington - bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristβ¦ - If approved it will result in the worst environmental disaster to be suffered by the city since the Blitz in WWII.
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Business owner prosecuted for damaging protected tree - bristol247.com/climate/news-β¦
'Every breach of planning which goes unchallenged sends the message that planning rules are effectively unenforceable and this is an affront to justice.'
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This must be a first for @BristolCouncil:
news.bristol.gov.uk/press-reβ¦.
at least as far as we are aware.
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The Circumlocution Office is not dead - panarchy.org/dickens/circumlβ¦
It is Planning 101!
Jan 16
This is in relation to a Freedom of Information request of 22 Oct 2025.
Appalling service with no sense of urgency to improve it, leading to multiple requests for internal reviews.
I hope @JoePBanks has the energy to report this to @ICOnews
@stillawake @MrDanack @BristolTreeFora
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Yep...not a single one ... ever!
Jan 13
The contest to this is that Planning "Enforcement" has never done anything, ever. It only exists to troll the people who make legitimate complaints. @BristolTreeFora has never made a successful complaint. No enforcement of illegal tree removal in Bristol for at least a decade
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