Public objections to the Fifth Capital proposal for the Carriageworks are coming in thick and fast, as the deadline for the planning appeal draws near.
No Gates in Stokes Croft! An Alternative to Corporate Gentrification, with Anna Minton
Presented by PRSC and co-hosted by The Bristol Cable:
Stokes Croft is facing the imminent prospect of a gated community with the planned redevelopment of the Carriageworks, with next to no affordable housing and rocketing rents for everyone.
Planning Application now in. Please Have Your Say…
APPLICATION TO “UPGRADE” Advertising Hoarding.
A new crop of planning applications is spearheading the gentrification
pressure in the Croft.
Stokes Croft is changing, visually, culturally and economically; compared to even to a couple of years ago there is now more street art, more artists and exhibitions, more businesses and punters.
Stokes Croft is, as you will know from the sign in the central reservation at the southern end of the street, twinned with St Ives.
PRSC was entered for the 2010 Regeneration and Sustainable Communities Awards. We didn’t win, but we did get a lovely certificate in which we were “Commended for exemplary practice, in recognition of outstanding work which has helped communities and improved people’s lives.”
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Jenni Gwynne receives the certificate from Steve Hewitt outside the PRSC Selling Gallery, where Jenni volunteers, and has become indispensible.
Sunday am 21.03.10
Scaffolding has just gone up on the former Putterills building on Stokes Croft. Clarke Scaffolding of avonmouth were busy erecting scaffolding.
On March 16th 2010, the day of the “Stokes Croft Riots”, Stokes Croft Postmistress Bushra Randhawa and PRSC Chairman, Chris Chalkley delivered 2270 protest cards to Bristol City Council on behalf of the “No Tesco in Stokes Croft “ Campaign.
This film was shot during the eviction of the squatters at the former Jesters Comedy Club in Cheltenham Road, Bristol on March 16th 2010.
Click Here to read Daily Mail Article 17.03.10
Click Here To Read Guardian Article Below
The Bristol Evening Post Carried the story on Pages 1,2 and 3.