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We are in the process of installing 15 cycle hangars across the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood trial area and have seven hangars left to install this week.
Each cycle hangar will provide convenient and secure storage for up to six bicycles for residents, taking up the space of around one car.
This week you will see some ‘no parking’ cones set up, covering the area of a parking space, in the remaining locations:
We ask that you do not park in these outlined zones, to make sure the installation process can go as quickly and smoothly as possible and avoid unwanted disturbance and congestion.
The cycle hangars are being allocated on a first-come-first-served basis with extra consideration given to people who live on the same street as the hangar. Anyone who has not registered their interest yet, but wants to do so, can apply for a space in one of the cycle hangars on our cycle hangars web page.
East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood trial will be taken forward following the statutory consultation, meaning that we can go ahead with plans to make Barton Hill and parts of Redfield and St George safer, healthier and more sustainable.
We ran a statutory consultation on East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood from 29 January to 20 February 2024. Thank you to everyone who responded. We have reviewed all the comments and have reported them to local councillors, the Cabinet Member for Transport and the Mayor of Bristol. Read the Objection Report.
The council has decided to take the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood trial ahead in full. This means that the scheme will be implemented as proposed in the trial scheme map.
Council elections are taking place in Bristol on Thursday 2 May 2024. To comply with pre-election rules, we will not be announcing anything new to do with the project until after the election. We will continue some limited activities, such as:
The trial scheme will be installed later this year following a tender process for the works.
Thank you again to everyone who has engaged with the project. We will be in touch again after the local elections. Don’t forget to make sure you have registered to vote.
15 cycle hangars are set to be installed on 14 streets across the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood pilot area between Monday 4 and Friday 15 March 2024.
Cycle hangars are lockable pods that each have space for six bikes, and they take up about the same amount of space as a single parked car. 14 of the hangars in this project will be placed on the road and one will be installed within a pedestrianised area.
Notices will soon be going up to explain that you will not be able to park a vehicle in the marked-out area on the roads where a cycle hangars will be installed.
The roads set to welcome a cycle hangar include:
Barton Hill
Redfield
St George
We recently door-knocked and posted flyers to all the properties near to the proposed locations of these 15 cycle hangars, to gather feedback about the locations and to let residents know how to register their interest in having a space in one of the hangars once they have been installed.
If you have already registered your interest, you will receive an email on 26 February inviting you to formally register your place. These will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis with extra consideration given to people who live on the same street as the hangar.
Anyone who has not registered their interest yet but wants to do so, can formally apply for a space in one of the cycle hangars from 4 March 2024 on our cycle hangars web page which will be updated with a registration form.
There will be many more cycle hangars installed on streets across Bristol later this summer as part of a regional project led by the West of England Combined Authority that Bristol City Council will be helping to deliver.
The statutory consultation for the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood pilot has recently closed and we are going through the feedback. No decision about the scheme has been made yet and this cycle hangar project is separate from that process.
We have started the formal consultation for the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood pilot scheme, which proposes introducing measures to help achieve a better balance of how streets are used by residents and motorists.
The overall aim of East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood pilot project is to help cut down on air pollution, noise pollution, and road accidents. It is hoped that by creating quieter and safer streets, residents would be encouraged to walk, wheel, or cycle when making local journeys.
The consultation is running from Monday 29 January to Tuesday 20 February 2024.
It is following the statutory consultation process for creating Traffic Regulation Orders (known as TROs). Local highway authorities, including Bristol City Council, are required to carry out this process before making legal changes to the highway.
The process will inform the council’s decision making and invites comments and objections on proposed measures, from modal filters to bus gates.
A public notice to promote the statutory consultation has been published in the Bristol Post and notices have been placed on lampposts throughout the proposed scheme area.
For all the consultation material and to submit your comments or objections, visit www.bristol.gov.uk/ebln-tro.
Printed copies of consultation material is also available at:
Please check with each venue for their opening times.
We have contacted our list of stakeholders to ask for their help in highlighting this process to make sure everyone knows the consultation is running and how to give their comments or objections.
We will work to make sure that all Barton House tenants who wish to take part in the statutory consultation have the opportunity to do so. Repair works are underway at Barton House to make it safe for people to return to next month, following the temporary evacuation in November 2023.
This consultation will inform how the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood pilot scheme is taken forward – whether as presented now or modified further. Any measures that we take forward will be monitored, and the community engaged throughout the trial. With feedback and consultation still ongoing, no decisions have been made about the final scheme.
It’s been a while since we’ve had an update for you about the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood.
In that time, we’ve been going through the feedback on our proposals for the trial scheme. Based on this feedback to date, we are considering a number of changes to the trial.
Take a look at our updated map and find out more about what’s changing.
We are aiming to start the trial this winter with temporary changes, which we will keep under close review. Again, we will take on the community’s feedback before anything is made permanent.
What’s in it for you?
We are bringing forward the Liveable Neighbourhood project in Barton Hill and parts of Redfield and St George because we want these areas to have the opportunity to access the millions of pounds made available nationally to improve active travel.
The money could mean more street trees, cycle storage space, urban drainage and other improvements. The investment could help make the areas safer to move around and reduce pollution. This investment could also be an opportunity to increase footfall for local businesses and boost trade.
Myth busting
Understandably, as we develop more ideas and as more people hear about them, residents have questions and concerns. We remain committed to working with communities to find solutions. However, there is also misinformation being circulated. It’s important you have the correct facts about how your Liveable Neighbourhood would work:
Find out the answers to more frequently asked questions.
How we’re keeping you informed
To make sure communities are aware of these changes, we are also writing to properties across the project area and Marvin Rees, Mayor of Bristol, has published a story on the the mayor’s website about the proposed updates to the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood trial scheme.
To make sure more people get the chance to meet with us and find out more about the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood trial scheme, we're holding an extra drop-in info session in Barton Hill.
It will run on Tuesday 4 July from 5pm to 6.30pm at the Wellspring Healthy Living Centre on Beam Street, BS5 9QY.
Everyone is welcome to stop by to find out more about the trial, ask questions, and give their views.
In the meantime, take a look at the proposals for the trial on our interactive mapif you haven't done so already.
Thank you to everyone who came along to our information sessions or joined us for one of our walkabouts of the area to find out more about the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood trial.
Over 500 people got involved with even more people taking a look at the information online and giving us their initial thoughts.
We’re starting to pull together all the comments we’ve had back to see if there are any changes we can make to the trial scheme.
This will lead onto the formal consultation stage of the trial, which is a legal process needed to make changes to the roads, which we expect to take place later in the summer.
We’re hoping the trial will start in the autumn. We’ll keep you updated as we go through the process.
Cycle hangars and tree planting
In the meantime, we’ll be contacting households on the 10 streets where cycle hangars are proposed to be installed about their exact locations. Once these have been agreed, residents will be able to sign up to use them.
While we can't plant trees as part of the trial, we will be using trees in large planters to demonstrate where street trees could go on local streets, whether along pavements or as part of a pocket park or modal filter. We’ll keep you posted about these plans as we work them up.
Frequently asked questions
A few themes came up at the information sessions, including questions around modal filters.
These do not mean that a whole road will be closed, rather they restrict access to motor vehicles travelling through at a point in the road with bollards and planters, while giving access to walking and cycling.
You would still be able to access all the streets in the trial area. However, if you were driving, you might need to go by a different route.
The colourful zones on the trial map show how you can access streets in each of the zones. Entry would be via the arrows pointing inwards and exit would be via the arrows pointing outwards. In effect, traffic would no longer be able to use your streets as cut-throughs to avoid the main roads, so your streets would be much quieter and safer.
Emergency vehicles would retain full access to all the streets across the trial area.
We have plenty more answers to frequently asked questions – take a look at our FAQs.
Get walking and cycling this summer
From free cycle training and how to find local walking groups to bike maintenance courses and free bus taster tickets, we’ve got heaps of information and resources to get you out and about this summer.
We are excited to present our plans for the trial scheme that will help make Barton Hill and parts of Redfield and St George quieter, safer and healthier places to live and spend time.
You can find out more about the trial at one of our info sessions or on a walkabout of the area in May and June.
Drop-in info sessions
There’s no need to book – just turn up!
Walkabouts
How we got here
Lots of people told us how streets across the pilot project could be improved by using a range of measures from our design toolkit.
We put all of that feedback together in our co-develop report, and have used it to shape the trial.
The trial will take place from the autumn and will see a series of measures installed across Barton Hill and parts of Redfield and St George.
Measures include:
We’ll be asking for your views again once the trial is underway and will run workshops to co-design what the permanent measures could look like.
See a map of the trial and what local streets will look like once it’s underway.
About the permanent scheme
We are unable to trial some of the measures as they can only be installed on a permanent basis. However, they will still be included in the final scheme and include:
We have drawn up indicative plans for the permanent scheme, which will be a working document that will change following feedback from the trial.
See a map showing early plans for the permanent scheme.
Talk to the team
To find out more, ask questions, and raise any issues you can book a one-to-one phone call or virtual meeting with the team.
Email the Liveable Neighbourhoods team.Telephone: 0117 903 6449 and leave a message and we will call you back.
Are you a community group or organisation based in east Bristol?
Please also contact us if you would like us to come and tell your group more about the project or if you are running any community events that we could have a presence at, such as a market, in May and June.
Want to start walking, cycling and try the bus?
We offer free support to get you moving, including loaning out bikes, giving out train and bus taster tickets, and promoting east Bristol walking groups and trails.
Councillor Donald Alexander, Cabinet member for Transport, has published a Mayor’s blog about the next stage of the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood pilot.
In it he sets out how we are putting together plans for how a series of measures in the design toolkit can be trialled on the ground, based on local feedback through two rounds of community engagement.
The trial will bring together a combinations of measures, including pocket parks, cycle hangars and new road layouts, so the concept of the Liveable Neighbourhood and changes on local streets can be tested before designing a permanent scheme.
Interventions for main roads, such as pedestrian crossings, junctions, and continuous footways, cannot be trialled as they are permanent solutions. This does not mean that they will not be included in the final scheme, which we’ll design based on the trial and further community engagement.
What’s next?Bristol City Council’s Cabinet will meet on 4 April to review and decide whether to progress to the next stage of project with the introduction of the trial scheme, further engagement on a permanent scheme, and the development of a full business case.
If approved, we would then work with the West of England Combined Authority to identify the £1.34 million needed to fund this next stage.
Overall, the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood pilot, including both the trial and permanent scheme, is projected to cost in the region of £5.8 million, which is a huge investment into east Bristol.
The costs will be met by the West of England Combined Authority using funding set aside for Liveable Neighbourhoods from the City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement. This is being supported by over £290,000 of EU Horizon funding.
Workshops and walkaboutsIn May and June we’ll be hosting workshops and walkabouts across the pilot area to show how the trial scheme could work, before formally consulting on the proposed changes in the summer.
We’ll send out more information about this in the coming weeks.
Over the trial we will continue to talk to the community to help shape the permanent scheme.
In the autumn we ran a series of workshops to find out what measures could be introduced to make Barton Hill and parts of Redfield and St George quieter, safer and healthier.
Having gone through all your suggestions and ideas, we’re pleased to present the co-develop engagement report. It sums up how we ran this stage of the pilot and the community response. Based on this feedback, we’re putting the finishing touches to plans for the trial scheme and are looking forward to sharing them with you soon.
On your bikeIn the meantime, a big part of the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood project is about encouraging more local people to reap all the benefits of active travel. That’s why we’ve put together a handy section on our website with plenty of information, activities and events to get you walking and cycling.
From getting back on your bike to finding some lovely walking routes, there are plenty of opportunities to get out and about this spring.
To get started, why not come along to one of our Travelwest roadshows? Pop by to find out how you can borrow a bike, access cycle training, go on an accompanied cycle ride and much more.
We’ll be at Wellspring Settlement on 8 March and St George Park on 15 March and will be running more roadshows in the coming months. You can even bring your bike along to get it checked over by Dr Bike for free!
If you’re interested in finding out how to keep your bike roadworthy, you can book onto a free bike maintenance course with Bike Bristol at St George Community Centre or the Wellspring Settlement this March and April. Find out more.
And, this spring Love to Ride is setting Bristol a bike challenge in the lead up to May. Simply set a goal, enjoy a bike ride and achieve your goal. Find out how to register.
Walk this wayWe’re also promoting all the ways you can get walking, including downloading the Go Jauntly app for free and following a local walk, such as the Netham Park Puzzle Walk, a circular walk around Easton, and the Troopers Hill and Conham loop.
Or, if you’re interested in walking as a group, you could join the Friends of Troopers Hill on a Lichen Walk on 19 March, a History of Troopers Hill and Crews Hole walk on 7 May, or a Ghostly Pub Walk with St George Strollers on 26 May.
To help children to play outside safely where you live, you could run a Playing Out session. To find out more, sign up for a free webinar running at 7.30pm on Tuesday 26 March, which also includes how to hold a street party in a car-free space in time for the Coronation.
For more information about all these activities, and to book your place on the bike maintenance course, visit our new Walking & Cycling section on the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood website.
This autumn lots of people have joined us at our design workshops to find out about a range of potential measures that could be adopted as part of the Liveable Neighbourhood pilot.
Measures range from installing cycle lanes and cycle hangars to creating parklets and traffic free zones outside schools in the area.
To make sure you have plenty of time to add your comments to our interactive maps, we're extending the time you have to take a look and have your say.
The maps will be live online until 31 October, so don't forget to place where you would like specific measures to go and show your agreement for other people’s suggestions.
We recommend following the below steps to find out what measures are available and how to plan out where they could go:
Step 1: Check out the design toolkit to familiarise yourself with the measures Step 2: Use our interactive tool to plan where you’d like to place the ‘local streets’ measures Step 3: Comment on our main roads and local streets map and community assets map
To make sure the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood pilot scheme is based on community desires, we need lots of people across Barton Hill, Redfield and St George to get involved and give us their suggestions and ideas.
We’re running our final design workshop this afternoon at Barton Hill Settlement from 1.30pm to 4.30pm.
It’s not too late to book your spot to find out more about the suggested measures in the design toolkit and plan out where they could have the most impact across the pilot area.
Book your place now! You can drop in at any time between 1.30pm and 4.30pm and it should only take around 20 minutes to give your views.
On top of this we have also added two drop-in sessions at Barton Hill Urban Park. These are running on Tuesday 11 October and Thursday 13 October between 12pm and 4pm. There’s no need to book – just turn up!
Don’t forget, you can also add your comments onto our two interactive maps. We’ve already had hundreds of comments on our main roads and local map and community assets map.
You can add your suggestions and also like other people’s suggestions if you agree with them.
If you’re unsure how changes to road layouts could affect traffic through the area, you can also use our interactive tool to plan where you’d like to place any local street measures.
You can give your views through the online maps until 31 October. We’ll then compile all these comments and suggestions, along with feedback from all our workshops, and put together a plan to install a trial scheme that will test the measures on local streets.
Don’t forget to get involved with the latest round of engagement for the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood pilot.
This is the point where you tell us what you think of a range of possible measures in our design toolkit, where they could go to have the most benefit, and give us your ideas for other improvements.
Local people have already been joining us at our first two weeks of workshops, where we’ve taken them through the measures, which they’ve placed on maps of Barton Hill, Redfield and St George.
Many people have also gone online and commented on our community assets map and main roads and local streets map, that allow you to place where you think these measures should go and add comments.
There’s still plenty of time to join one of our workshops and have your say. You can just drop in at any time they are running, but please book ahead so we know how many people are coming. They are running at the following times and places:
We're also holding virtual workshops in the evenings on the following dates:
We’re looking forward to hearing your ideas and working with you to shape your Liveable Neighbourhood.
Today sees the start of the co-develop phase of the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhoods pilot.
This involves working with the local community and stakeholders to decide how a range of potential measures can help achieve a better balance for how local streets are used for transport and people.
There are plenty of ways to get involved - we recommend following these steps:
On Thursday we heard the very sad news that Her Majesty The Queen had died. Many events across the UK have been affected. However, the co-develop workshops will continue as planned, with our first one taking place tomorrow.
We do understand if you would rather come to a workshop after the period of mourning, and you are very welcome to book a different workshop if you had been planning to come this week.
The in-person workshops are drop-in and should only take about 20 minutes. Find out more and book your spot.
We hope plenty of people will get involved in this important part of the pilot so East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood reflects what you want for your local community.
In the summer we launched a design toolkit that showcased potential solutions to the issues raised in the first round of our East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood engagement.
From pocket parks and more street lighting to cycle lanes and new road layouts, the measures can be used in a combination to achieve a better balance between how local streets are used for transport and people.
This autumn we are running a series of workshops to find out your views on how these measures could be used to help shape your Liveable Neighbourhood and to find out any other ideas you might have for the pilot area.
The workshops are drop in and it should only take around 20 minutes to give your views. We're asking everyone to book so we have an idea of how many people to expect. Please see below for the dates and times:
We're also holding online workshops each week in the evenings for people who can't make any of the in-person workshops. Book now for the following dates:
We will also be launching two new interactive maps where comments about the potential measures and where they could go on local streets can be added online.
The co-develop phase of the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood pilot will run from 12 September to 16 October 2022.
We’re excited to be launching the design toolkit in preparation for the second phase of the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood pilot.
The toolkit is made up of a range of possible solutions to the issues that were raised through the community survey, which was part of the co-discover phase of engagement.
The 16 possible solutions fall under one of three groups:
We've developed cards for each of the 16 solutions with information on what they are, how they can help, what the drawbacks may be, and whether they could be trialled with temporary materials to understand how they work.
The cards also have a star rating so they can be compared with each other. These ratings are indicative and can help act as conversation starters so you can consider the benefits of the different possible solutions.
We're introducing the toolkit ahead of community design workshops that will take place in the autumn, so that you can start thinking about what you'd like to see in your area.
When combined these solutions can help balance how streets are used for people and traffic.
Earlier this year we asked residents, businesses, and everyone who travels to or through Barton Hill, Redfield and St George to give us their views on the area as part of the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood early engagement exercise.
We received thousands of responses through our community survey, interactive map, postcards, drop-in sessions, school visits and more.
It’s taken us a while to go through all your feedback, and the good news is that we’ve now published our East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood Co-Discover Engagement Report.
From this we can see the top three essential things near where you live are that:
And the top suggestions for how the area could be improved are to:
Having an overview of the issues you care about most means we can start putting together a range of possible solutions as part of the co-develop phase. This will include measures to reduce, slow and redistribute traffic away from residential streets, as well as measures to make walking and cycling safer, easier and more pleasant.
We'll be adding a list along with descriptions of these solutions online later this summer so you can think about which ones will work well in your neighbourhood.
Then in September and October we’ll be inviting you to a series of workshops to find out what you think of these measures, whether they are right for your neighbourhood, and where you think they could have the most benefit.
Once we've completed this co-develop phase, we'll review the findings and build our case to fund the trial scheme. This will be followed by more community engagement to make sure our final, permanent scheme is right for the area.
Later this year Bristol City Council will be introducing a Clean Air Zone to reduce harmful pollution from vehicles.
The zone is in the central area where air quality is poorest. No vehicles will be banned from driving in the zone, but older and more polluting vehicles will have to pay a daily charge to drive in it.
71 per cent of vehicles already meet the zone’s emission standards. We are offering financial support and advice to help people upgrade their vehicles or switch to a cleaner way of travelling.
Big Up Barton Hill Clean Air Zone networking event
Find out more at a Clean Air Zone networking event happening in east Bristol on Saturday 25 June at St Luke's Church, Barton Hill between 11am and 3pm.
How to prepare for the Clean Air Zone
Get ready for Bristol’s Clean Air Zone by following our three easy steps:
You can also find out if we can support you to make more journeys by public transport, cycling or walking on the Travelwest website.
Earlier this month, we highlighted Walk Fest which is taking place throughout the month of May to celebrate National Walking month.
There's still time to get involved - check out the programme.
We also urged everyone to download Go Jauntly, a free app full to the brim with great urban walks to follow.
As part of our work with Go Jauntly, we're helping to develop a new Enhanced Green Routes calculator for Bristol that offers greener, healthier, quieter and less polluted walking and cycling routes through the app.
We would once again like to invite you to participate in a workshop to help us make sure this new feature addresses the needs of your community and to provide feedback on it, the routes and the information displayed.
As mentioned before, the workshop will include an initial meet and greet, an overview of the Green Routes feature for Bristol, a survey to understand your perspective and the needs of you and your community, as well as a guided walk that will gather your views of both a ‘direct’ and ‘Green Route’ in
The workshop will now take place on the new date of Friday 17 June from 12 noon to 2pm at Barton Hill Settlement and will include a free lunch!
All survey data will be conducted according to ethical guidelines and will remain anonymous unless otherwise agreed.
Later this year Bristol City Council will be introducing a Clean Air Zone to reduce harmful pollution from vehicles.
The zone is in the central area where air quality is poorest. No vehicles will be banned from driving in the zone, but older and more polluting vehicles will have to pay a daily charge to drive in it.
71 per cent of vehicles already meet the zone’s emission standards. We are offering financial support and advice to help people upgrade their vehicles or switch to a cleaner way of travelling.
East Bristol Clean Air Zone roadshow
Find out more at a Clean Air Zone roadshow happening in East Bristol on Monday 23 May at the Wellspring Settlement between 11am and 3pm.
How to prepare for the Clean Air Zone
Get ready for Bristol’s Clean Air Zone by following our three easy steps:
You can also find out if we can support you to make more journeys by public transport, cycling or walking on the Travelwest website.
We are continuing to go through all the responses from our first round of engagement and writing a report with all the findings.
This will help us to pinpoint where the issues on local streets are and find out what matters most to communities in and around the pilot area.
As we had so many comments, ideas and feedback, it’s taking a little longer than we thought.
We are also planning our next stage of engagement, the co-develop phase, which will include a series of workshops taking place this summer to look at possible solutions to the problems and find out what would work best for the local community.
In the meantime, as our results show walking is generally the main way you get to shops, education and leisure, we’re promoting Bristol Walk Fest and the walking app Go Jauntly, which are great ways to discover walks in your area and around Bristol.
Enhanced green routes for BristolMay is National Walking Month, and Go Jauntly and Tranquil City is launching Green Routes Tranquillity Scores for Bristol.
This will allow Go Jauntly app users in Bristol to see tranquillity scores - based on street design, the amount and quality of green space and noise pollution - for local walking routes.
This means walks are based on more than just how long they will take, leading to even more health and wellbeing benefits.
Find out how to download the free Go Jauntly app
Green routes workshop invitationOur active travel team is inviting people from the Redfield and Barton Hill area to test the Green Routes Tranquillity Scores feature in a workshop on 25 or 26 May.
The two to three hour workshop will include:
The results will help us to review the Green Routes feature and help us decide how we can promote it to encourage a shift to walking and cycling through healthier, more enjoyable journeys.
Contact us to find out more about the workshop.People from East Bristol have until 13 March to have their say on the city’s first Liveable Neighbourhood pilot.
With the deadline for the first round of community engagement fast approaching, Bristol City Council is encouraging people from Barton Hill, Redfield and St George in east Bristol, to give their views on the liveable neighbourhood pilot.
Liveable neighbourhoods are areas of a city that work to achieve a better balance between how streets are used for transport and people.
They aim to make local streets safe, healthy, inclusive, and attractive places where everyone can breathe clean air, have access to better quality green space and play areas, and feel a part of a community.
So far more than 2,750 people have responded to the community engagement, sharing their likes, dislikes, and ideas for east Bristol.
Early desires for the project area include places to exercise safely, more community facilities and places to socialise, better signage to cycle paths, electric vehicle charging points, events in green spaces, secure bicycle parking and more.
Some of the concerns raised include cars parked on pavements, problems with litter, graffiti and anti-social behaviour, the speed cars travel at, narrow pavements, traffic using residential streets as cut throughs, and pollution caused by vehicles that idle in traffic.
Councillor Don Alexander, Cabinet Member for Transport, said:
“I’m really pleased to see so many people getting involved in this early stage of the process, as it’s vital we hear from people who live, work or travel through the area to get an idea of all the issues, good and bad, to inform the next stage of the process. This will involve working in partnership with people across the pilot area to look at which measures are the most suitable to rebalance local streets, so they work for everyone, no matter how they get about.”There is still time to get involved by completing a survey or dropping comments on the interactive map.
Businesses across the project area of Barton Hill, Redfield and St George are also being reminded to complete an extra survey.
The deadline for this first stage of engagement is Sunday 13 March 2022.
Funded by the West of England Combined Authority, the roll out of the first liveable neighbourhood pilot is one of the Mayor’s priorities for Bristol, which includes a second pilot and the potential to expand the programme.
It builds on Bristol Citizens’ Assembly’s recommendation for neighbourhoods across the city to be reimagined so they are people-centred and more liveable.
Lots of local people have got involved with our east Bristol liveable neighbourhood pilot so far.
It's been great to hear your views and thank you so much for taking part.
Please remember to tell your neighbours as we’d love to hear from them too.
There are a number of ways to get involved:
It has been a busy and exciting week launching the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood pilot and the team have been busy chatting to residents and local businesses at local community events. Thanks to everyone who has already stopped by to tell us what you like about the area and what you would change for the better. Find an event near you on our Events page .
Drop in today (Friday 4 February) we are in St George Library until 5pm , then back again on Monday 7 February from 3pm .
Liveable neighbourhoods are areas of a city where improvements are designed in partnership with local communities. Their aim is to achieve a better balance between how streets are used for transport and people.
People living in Barton Hill, Redfield and St George now have the chance to share their views on which measures they’d like to see introduced to their neighbourhood.
Measures can be small scale and easy to install, such as planting trees, providing more benches, community activity spaces, and better lighting, while making it easier to catch a bus and to walk or cycle, with improved infrastructure and measures to reduce through traffic.
Councillor Don Alexander, Cabinet Member Responsible for Transport, said:
“I am delighted our first Liveable Neighbourhood pilot is getting underway. It’s about working in partnership with communities to create stronger, safer and happier neighbourhoods. This pilot project is really important and is one of the ways we will be working in partnership to make Bristol a sustainable city with a low impact on our planet and a healthy environment for all. We are now asking for local views from Barton Hill, Redfield and St George neighbourhoods, to understand what areas are like now, what is good and not so good about them, and how we could make them better. I encourage everyone across these areas to get involved, whether you live, work, study or visit east Bristol, we want to hear from you.”The introduction of Liveable Neighbourhoods to Bristol follows a pledge made by the Mayor, Marvin Rees, to roll out two pilots in the city.
Additionally, Bristol’s landmark Citizens’ Assembly, backed this call for the city’s neighbourhoods to be reimagined so they are people-centred and more liveable.
The east Bristol pilot will set out to deliver a safe, healthy, inclusive, and attractive environment where everyone can breathe clean air, have access to better quality green and play space, and feel a part of their community.
Councillor Ellie King, Cabinet Member for Public Health, Communities and Bristol One City, said:
“Liveable Neighbourhoods give us the opportunity to rethink and reset where we live. They empower our local communities to transform their neighbourhoods into places where people want to spend time and bring a sense of pride and belonging. As our first pilot project, it’s an exciting time for east Bristol, and we are looking forward to working with the local community to help build a better Bristol.”The first round of engagement will run from 31 January to 13 March 2022.
A survey is going out to 6,000 homes and 400 businesses across east Bristol asking for views on the measures that people would like to see introduced.
You can also complete the survey online .
A series of events are set to take place in east Bristol to provide opportunities for residents to discuss and offer their views about the pilot. Find out more .
Businesses across the project area of Barton Hill, Redfield and St George are also being invited to complete an additional survey . It asks for information about individual businesses, such as how many employees they have, how deliveries are made, how staff travel to work, and how their waste is collected.
The east Bristol liveable neighbourhood pilot project is being funded by the West of England Combined Authority.