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.
For an urban location that is over two centuries old, it sometimes feels strange that transience is a defining characteristic of Stokes Croft.
These pictures were unearthed by Rachael Marmite, who organised the archaeological dig on Turbo Island in 2009.
The photo below is of the shop that used to be on Turbo Island in 1926.
Zazu’s Kitchen at the corner of Jamaica Street and Stokes Croft is building an enviable reputation for great food. Restaurateur Toby Bywater and chef, Will Beasley are making their mark on Stokes Croft’s growing culinary reputation.
The archaeological dig that took place on Turbo Island in Stokes Croft last December has now been shown on BBC TV Inside Out West.
The People of Stokes Croft, Montpelier and beyond took to the streets on Saturday afternoon, thus demonstrating the depth of feeling at the the possibility of Tesco spreading its unwelcome influence into this area of the City.
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.
Stokes Croft local beat officers have brokered an apparently voluntary agreement with the six independent retailers of alcohol in Stokes Croft to ban sales of beers and cider with an alcoholic content of more than 6%.
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.