The former Jesters Comedy Club at 142 Cheltenham Road, Stokes Croft, whose lease has been taken over by Tesco, has been squatted.
Bristol City Council have released the three selected designs for the City Road/Stokes Croft Junction. You can now vote for your preferred choice at either Niche Frames on Stokes Croft, or at the Architecture Centre, Narrow Quay.
MESSAGE from EUDAIMON, the only local option of the three submitted designs for the Corner Site…
Stokes Croft at a critical juncture.
Turbo Island during its last Community- led makeover, Feb. 2009
Below, the Inspector’s judgement. Particularly illuminating are Paragraphs 11 and 12, of which a small excerpt is quoted below:
The (Hoarding is not) preventing regeneration of the wider area or the immediate site, and indeed it may have some beneficial impacts in reducing the amount of graffiti.
Tesco is worryingly close to setting up shop on Stokes Croft – at the old Jesters.
Please come to a public meeting at 7pm on Monday 8 Feb at Hamilton House’s Events Space to find out how to help prevent this and explore what the community does want.
Bristol City Council will present the three short-listed designs for The City Road/ Stokes Croft Corner Site.
There is one local design of the three choices.
There is to be a Public Inquiry at the Council house on 25th February where the developers, Opecprime Development will attempt to gain planning permission for an intensive development of the Carriageworks/ Westmoreland House.
News has emerged that Tesco have bought the lease on the former “Jesters” Comedy Club on Cheltenham Road.
Dave Trew, of Metropolis, reports;
More bad news is that I can confirm that Tesco have signed a lease to take the commercial unit of old Jesters at 140 Cheltenham Road.
A short film from the PRSC Youtube site. A fire started in a skip conveniently situated beneath the City Road advertising hoarding.
The BAM construction site on the corner of Kings Square Avenue and Dighton Street was ram-raided on the week-end of 10-11 October.