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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.

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:

•  Organising and coordinating the implementation of trial measures
• Offering active travel support to individuals, businesses, schools and community groups in the area
• Limited engagement with already established networks 
• Installing cycle hangars and organising the sign-up process – the first four of the cycle hangars will be installed next week on Holmes Street, Avonvale Road, Victoria Avenue/Witchell Road and Diamond Road
• Answering questions emailed to liveableneighbourhoods@bristol.gov.uk

 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.

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.

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.

Find out more.

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.

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.

Find out more about walking and cycling.

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.

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.

Find out more about the help we offer.

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.

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.

In 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.

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.

In 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.

We’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.

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.

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.

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.

Find out more.

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.

Take a look at the design toolkit.

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.

Find out the results of the co-discover phase.

You can also find out if we can support you to make more journeys by public transport, cycling or walking on the Travelwest website.

Find out more about the Clean Air Zone.

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.

Book your free place on the workshop.

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.

Find out more about the Clean Air Zone.

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.

May 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

Our 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.

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.

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 .

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:

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.