Local resident submissions to the City Council electoral review

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Fuller, Heather

From: Sent: 29 September 2014 15:31 To: Reviews@ Subject: Bristol Ward Boundary revisions

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I send this as an individual submission but wish to reinforce some of the ideas in the Bristol Labour Party submission from my own experience of living and standing for election in Bristol wards and Bristol West constituency. I wish however that we had adopted the voting system used in Scotland, single transferable vote, which would I believe give better more representative governance alongside the elected mayor. I also make suggestions if you decide to join up areas previously in the same ward now separated by lines on maps, either parliamentary constituencies or the M32 or other main roads. I refer only to the current Bristol West and adjacent areas.

I have lived in since 1976 and during that time I have been in two wards, first Bishopston and then Redland which was created in the early 1980s. I previous lived in Lawrence Hill for a few months. Although I stood as a parliamentary candidate for Bristol West, I have attended parliamentary boundary inquiries as a champion of electoral reform believing as I do that parties should fight for every vote, be a vehicle for information and communication between the electorate and politics. So although I understand the party political imperative for creating safe seats and marginals I genuinely believe in taking notice of the ways communities work together, the way they orientate because of geographical reasons, schools, medical surgeries, faith meeting places.

As a self taught psephologist, co-writing a book Making Votes Count, I have made a special study of my home constituency and ideally look forward to Bristol West becoming Bristol Central which reflects what I believe it really has become. Even in the old Bristol West before the addition of Lawrence Hill and Easton, the St Werburgh's Community Centre branded itself as working with the people of East Bristol.

This inquiry only affects the current ward boundary changes but I do believe with the growing population in new build, often gated communities in the inner city wards, you will have an eye on the future parliamentary review. If you wanted to make the electorate in central Bristol more coherent this could be done in two ways. Either a new ward in central Bristol drawing on adjacent 1 wards of Cabot, Dove Street, the areas of St Paul's and lower Montpelier on either side of Road and Lawrence Hill. Or by uniting areas which used to be in the same ward or simply shifting the population up through the constituency so that the north of Bishopston and Redland are reunited with parts of Horfield and (Durdham) that used to be in the same ward.

In terms of orientation, the new Redland Green School, gives a new dynamic to the immediate area of Redland/Bishopston. Cranbrook Road (east, evens) was included in the Bishopston. The Bishopston - Kuppam Link helped create community in Bristol by having street wardens (I was one) as well as supporting a similarly sized community in K V Kuppam, Tamil Nadu, India. Because of the daunting hill which cuts off older people and parents with push chairs from the polling station used in May 2014 at the last minute, and the Gloucester Road shops, people in this area have links not only with the people in St Andrew's but use the park there.

In previous boundary changes I have been involved in, it has clearly been tempting to erect boundaries in terms of main roads, motorways, rail tracks, parks and some indeed initially create barriers. But often where communities have things in common, they will overcome barriers even the M32 and A38. The bottom of Ashley, minus the St Andrew's which has more in common with Gloucester Road and lower Redland share a park. Cromwell Road is currently in Ashley and Redland yet they both orientate to Gloucester Road.

Perhaps you will draw on former boundary changes and revisit them. Redland was carved out of Cotham, Durdham and Bishopston. This changed the wards which with the growing inner city have northern polling districts which still orientate north rather than to the rest of their wards in the inner city. Perhaps they could be rejoined to Henleaze and Horfield if you decide to cross constituency boundaries.

I have noticed that St Werburgh's has linked up with the other part of Baptist Mills now on the East of the M32 where Millpond School exists now but used to be Baptist Mills School where I was a school government. Cabot School in Halston Drive has many children from Easton. The shops on Ashley Road have shoppers from Dove Street, Cabot, as well as local residents of St Paul's. The people living in Banner and Norrisville, Albert and Brook Roads and Sussex Place have more in common with St Paul's than they do with either St Werburgh's than upper Montpelier. The people in the top of Montpelier despite the railway have much in common with the St Andrew's area.

In many ways middle class people do not need councillors to show them the way through bureaucracy, or jumping the hoops, in the same way as recently arrived immigrants, established but ethnic minority communities and people who are transient in a constituency which has greater church than virtually any way else in the UK.

I don't envy you your job of making sense of the city but I do think that wards containing students could have larger electorates since they draw on services at the University rather than call on councillors for help. I further believe that people in multioccupation, council and social housing, often have health, mental as well as physical, problems similar to each other and different from their neighbouring more middle class areas. These inner city or outer estates need to call on council support more often and therefore case loads are greater. This suggests they should have smaller populations not only because their registration rates are smaller. I believe Stephen Williams the current MP believes the population of Bristol West is near 120,000 than the registered population because of under registration.

Best wishes and good luck,

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The wards need to be more equal in size Cabot in particular is huge , contains the whole city centre as well as several unconnected residential communities Ward boundaries should not divide high streets communities. the boundary between cabot and ashley runs through stokes croft. this means that different sides of the same community are in different neighbourhood partnerships. Stokes Croft. Until the recent riots the police beat boundary ran through stokes croft meaning that different teams policed the two sides of the road - very unhelpful. Same in whiteladies Rd, this high street needs all the help it can get but the ward boundary Clifton East / Cotham means that the two sides of the road are in different neighbourhood partnerships. Thes hgh streets should be at the centre of a ward not used as a convenient boundary More care needs to go into thinking about how the ward boundaries impact on neighbourhood partnerships. The big problem remains that \Bristol ends too soon areas that are wholly dependant on Bristol are not political part of the city. starting immediately over the bridge is daft. South Glos has no reason to exist it is almost wholly dependant on Bristol, BANES should not control kingswood etc which are really all part of Bristol This is a real problem for Bristol and its role within the region

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I am happy with the boundary as it is for Ashley ward.

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I live in Horfield and am happy with the current boundaries.

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https://consultation.lgbce.org.uk/node/print/informed-representation/3596 25/07/2014 Fuller, Heather

From: Mary Bannerman < > Sent: 27 September 2014 11:10 To: Reviews@ Subject: Bristol wards

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I understand that Bristol central wards are too large. Having lived in Redcliffe for nearly 20 years, I am only too well aware that in spite of being a well‐defined and lively community area, it suffers greatly from being in two wards. Lawrence Hill and Cabot are both high‐density urban areas, but Redcliffe is distinct from both and is marginal to both.

Please could it be a ward on its own?

Mary Bannerman

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Postcode , currently , but makes far more sense to be . The boundary was obviously there before the houses. I haveno connection whatever with Stockwood, but do relate to Brislington.

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6: Windmill Hill to include East St up to Canon St / Dean Lane / St Catherine Mead. 12: Totterdown to be with Knowle 11: East St to be be main destination centre of Windmill Hill ward

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Annotation 6: Windmill Hill to include East St up to Canon St /

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6: Windmill Hill to include 9: North St (west) to be main St up to Canon St / Dean destination centre of Southville / St Catherine Mead ward

11: East St to be be main destination centre of Windmill Hill ward

7: Windmill Hill to join Southville and Bedminster in 'Greater Bedminster Community Partnership

10: West St to be be main destination centre of Bedminster ward

13: Lower Knowle to be w 8: Ashton Vale might be part of Bishopsworth

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Annotation 6: Windmill Hill to include East St up to Canon St /

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https://consultation.lgbce.org.uk/node/print/informed-representation/3703 13/08/2014 From: To: Subject: FW: Bristol Election Boundry Changes. Date: 22 July 2014 16:01:26

From: robin boulton [mailto: ] Sent: 22 July 2014 15:45 To: Reviews@ Subject: Bristol Election Boundry Changes.

July 22 2014.

Subbmission on the changes to Bristol City Council.

Now that Bristol has, the ability to Elect an Elected Mayor.

The roles of an appointed Lord Mayor, and a Elected Mayor. Should become one.

A simple Elected Mayor.

Rather than having, Two Members per Ward.

Simply, have one. Requiring them to perform, a given minium of contracted hours. Togeather with duties, expected too be performed.

Like writing and publishing, an annual report on.

The state of their ward. Improvements bought about. Subjects that need, adressing in the forcoming year. In the ward. Etc.

My name and address.

Robin Boulton.

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The Lawrence Hill Boundary, needs to be reviewed. The Redcliffe South Area should included in Cabot or Southville (if joined into Cabot it would get rid of the current Redcliffe boundary split). Lawrence Hill is in the East of the City and has no conection with Redcliffe, which is in the South of the City. The cut of point could be Temple Gate & Victoria Street.

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Dear Sir/Madam I would like to ask that Redcliffe in Bristol be considered an electoral ward in its own right. Redcliffe is a very historic area of Bristol and is unfortunately currently split into 2, with the West side being in Cabot ward and the East in Lawrence Hill ward. Lawrence Hill has very many social economic issues and invariably East Redcliffe, which has it's own, tends to get forgotten to a degree by busy Lawrence Hill Councillors - for example the recent imposition of an RPZ on East Redcliffe, although sought by some in Cabot ward was not even knowledge to our Lawrence Hill Councillors or communicated to the Lawrence Hill Neighbourhood partnership! This also makes for difficulties with things like the operation of the NHPs and the Police. The whole of Redcliffe could of course be associated into Cabot ward, although this I feel would also not do Redcliffe justice, but would be better than the current set-up. Redcliffe is an Island geographically with the Floating Harbour, Avon River and feeder Canal as its borders. I am open to suggestions that Spike Island could also be part of this ward if this ward needs to be larger, as it is also isolated by the Harbour and the Avon and forms an almost Italianesque shape along with Redcliffe, the Bathurst Basin that separates these 2 islands was an enlargement, I believe, of an old Mill Pond (Trin Mills) to connect the river to the harbour. Both Redcliffe and Spike Island are areas associated with port activity and industry now sadly gone, but making way for new development. Thank You.

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https://consultation.lgbce.org.uk/node/print/informed-representation/3854 24/09/2014 Fuller, Heather

From: sarah cleave < > Sent: 26 September 2014 15:56 To: Reviews@ Subject: Boundary Review Attachments: Sarah_Boundary Review.docx

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Dear Sirs

Please see attached letter.

Kind regards Sarah Cleave

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25 September 2014

Dear Sir,

I would like to take this opportunity as a local Cotham resident to comment on the boundary review.

The current Redland Ward doesn’t include many key features of the Redland community such as the Redland train station. Therefore I would like to see the boundary moved to the Severn Beach Line thereby incorporating the Redland Train Station. Also included in the Ward should be Redland Green School, Redland High School, the Redland Green, and Redland Parish Church. Many key roads would be included such as Lower Redland Road and Redland Park.

Using the Redland Railway line as the border, I propose extending the Cotham Ward Southwards to include Kingsdown, a mainly residential area which shares many similar demographic characteristics with Cotham. Both of these Wards use the City Centre, Whiteladies Road and Gloucester Road for shopping and they also share schools such as Cotham School and facilities such as the Kingsdown Leisure Centre. The proposed Cotham and Kingsdown Ward would also include important features such as Cotham School, Cotham Gardens, Cotham Park and Cotham Brow.

Yours faithfully,

Sarah Cleave.

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I have lived in for 36 years so know the area fairly well. It makes sense to me to keep Henbury and within the same single ward. Most of our local facilities - the library, dental surgery, post offices and local churches are all used by people from both Henbury and Brentry. There are three primary schools as well as Henbury Secondary School and all of them have children attending from both communities. I think the present ward should be extended to embrace the Charlton Mead estate. In effect Charlton Mead really forms part of Brentry - for instance their residents use Brentry Primary School and Henbury Secondary School, the doctors surgery in Knole Lane and the newly created play area in Okebourne Road. It also seems silly that Brentry residents in Chakeshill Drive and adjoining roads have to "cross the border" when they visit the local shops in Charlton Road - the existing ward boundary severs Brentry in two. In summary I would recommend that Henbury and Brentry remains as a single ward but that it be extended to include Charlton Mead. Richard Clifton 25/09/2014

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https://consultation.lgbce.org.uk/node/print/informed-representation/3892 29/09/2014 From: To: Subject: FW: City of Bristol boundary review Date: 24 July 2014 09:26:51

-----Original Message----- From: Matthew Cockburn Sent: 23 July 2014 21:39 To: Reviews@ Subject: City of Bristol boundary review

Dear Sir/ Madam,

I would like to make a suggestion about the ward boundaries near where I live.

I have always been in "Bishopston" ward but never felt this represented the area I live in - Bishopston proper is a small area at the bottom of Gloucester Rd and to the west.

In fact Gloucester Rd acts as quite a natural boundary, with communities on both sides coming together to use its great shops. For many people schools are the biggest defining factor in their community and the school school catchments tend to divide along Gloucester Rd. For Primaries, there is Bishop Rd to west and and Sefton Park to east. For secondaries, the Redland and Cotham catchments are more to the west and the Fairfield catchment is more to the east.

So my proposal would be to have two two-member wards, one each side of Gloucester Rd, between say Zetland Rd in south and Muller Rd in north.

I haven't done the exact maths, but I'd have thought if you need about 10,000 electors per ward then the following would work:

"Ashley Down" bounded by Cromwell Rd - allotments- railway- Muller Rd - Gloucester Rd

"Bishopston" bounded by Cranbrook Rd - Kellaway Avenue - Gloucester Rd.

I hope these comments are useful and I'd be happy to provide more information.

Yours faithfully,

Matthew Cockburn

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1: Bishopston border to run along Churchways Avenue

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Currently Hazelbury Road, David's Road, Whitecross Avenue and all roads eastwards to the Wells road are in Stockwood ward to which it has no direct connection save West Town Lane and the old railway arch at the bottom of David's road. All the local amenities (shops, churches, pub, filling station etc) are either on or near the Wells road while Asda and the adjacent shops and Doctor's surgery are in ward. it seems to me that the area between the old disused railway track and the Wells road has more affinity to Hengrove rather than Stockwood ward and I should like to suggest that this area be transferred from Stockwood to Hengrove ward.

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1: Redcliffe and Harbourside

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The existing Cabot and Lawrence Hill wards do not identify the character of the harbourside and particularly Redcliffe area. Redcliffe and the harbourside are seeing a lot of development currently and the incoming population will increase.

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From: To: Subject: FW: Boundary Ward changes Date: 01 August 2014 11:46:47

-----Original Message----- From: Angela Essex Sent: 01 August 2014 11:08 To: Reviews@ Cc:

Subject: Boundary Ward changes

With regard to the consultation on the revision of Bristol’s ward boundaries I would like to make the following comments:

This consultation should be more ambitious as Bristol now has out grown its original boundaries as a result we have school and traffic problems therefore I would suggestion the following plan eg:

Bristol, including Thornbury, Bath, Keynsham, Weston Super Mare, Portishead, Severn Beach and Clevedon boundaries should be amalgamated for planning, housing, roads, transport and public services expanded to cover the surrounding authorities into one unitary authority. Can I suggest the name of the Wessex Unitary Authority so that decisions can be made on traffic, rail and roads as well as buildings that come to a halt at the council boundary!

The problem at the moment is that the local authorities under the umbrella of Local Enterprise Partnership has resulted in petty squabbles which in the past has meant the loss of the tram, traffic congestion, not enough schools, etc.

Children have to travel outside of the Bristol boundary in order to attend schools because former senior schools in Bristol had been demolished instead of being ‘mothballed’.

Also, bad planning ie the development which had no schools, health centres or shops when the development was finished meant children had to travel to other local authorities in order to get a place in a senior school. The Henleaze, and areas are now used as 'park and rides' for commuters who drive into our areas, park and then catch the bus into Bristol as there is no local railway system to take them into Bristol for work.

The Henleaze, Stoke Bishop, Southmead areas were particularly hard hit so children had to travel to Thornbury, Portishead, Ham Green, etc to attend senior schools.

Just to consider a change of a ward boundary in order to balance out the numbers is a waste of time particularly when the present voting system does not attract voters so the turnout is very low in some areas.

With the development of the runway for even more housing the infrastructure will not be there to take the increased car traffic as there is no alternative rail system.

A unitary authority would have more power and attract funding to re-open all the local railway stations which were closed in the ‘Beeching days’. The Bristol area must be the only city in the country which does not have an integrated transport system which includes a local train service and yet it is capital of the West of England.

With a creation of an all encompassing unitary authority better planning can take place and the petty squabbles between the existing authorities would not happen as one authority would be able to make the decisions to cover the whole area including all aspects of city planning.

Mrs A Essex

From: To: Subject: FW: Boundary Commission’s consultation on Bristol’s ward boundaries Date: 22 August 2014 16:25:51

From: Sent: 22 August 2014 14:34 To: Reviews@ Subject: Boundary Commission’s consultation on Bristol’s ward boundaries

Dear Sirs,

I find great difficulty in explaining to someone else where I live. My locality used to be considered as Eastville – before the M32 drove thousands of coaches and millions of horsepower through it. Now it is sometimes termed “Upper Eastville”. Some who live a little further west consider that they live in Horfield. The Church of England recognises this area as part of Stapleton while the City considers it part of the ward. Most local people refuse any association with Lockleaze – the bulk of which lies some 2 miles north. Some years ago an M.P.s secretary sent me a letter addressed to Lockleaze. It never arrived! When I suggested that my post code be used there was no further difficulty. So now when asked”” Where do you live I respond “ ”! The situation was even more confusing for those who lived just on the other side, south of Muller Road which formed part of the boundary between Bristol NorthWest and I know not which.They shared the same Polling Station but not the same M.P.! I trust that, after any redrawing of boundaries, there will be rather more logic in the matter.

Yours, Sue Flint

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If government and this boundary committee was serious it would consider obligatory voting or all residents. Because of reluctance to vote by a lot residents because of " My one vote won't make a difference or its raining attitude in some wards, true democracy is not served. I know people who has never voted even though they are of the older age group. Election turn out can be embarrassingly low so shifting ward boundaries purely on populous count doesn't address the problem of fairness. Your speaker at Bristol last night started by declaring there is no political bias within the team within or outside motivation yet it was stated that The Bristol Council had asked to be part of the survey So I would ask your team to consider a rethink the whole exercise and recommend obligatory voting as it is in Australia

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1: Houses in Stanshaw Close

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There seem to be some discrepancies between the Bristol boundary shown on the OS map layer and the proposed ward boundary. In most cases, the difference is within the width of a road or a slight misalignment with field boundaries but there is one instance where houses appear to have been disenfranchised! This in Stanshaw Close where the ward boundary is drawn short of the end of the road. This implies that the houses at the head of the cul de sac are in South Gloucestershire but dependent on Bristol services.

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https://consultation.lgbce.org.uk/node/print/informed-representation/3708 14/08/2014 From: To: Subject: FW: New Redfield ward Date: 18 August 2014 09:19:06

From: Jenny Grinsted [mailto Sent: 15 August 2014 09:00 To: Reviews@ Subject: New Redfield ward

Hello, I would like to submit a proposal that the Redfield area of Bristol becomes its own ward.

Currently the area is split between Lawrence Hill, Easton and St George East/West (and also in general elections between Bristol East and West). However it has its own distinct identity as evidenced by events such as the Redfest festival, the Church Road action group and Town Team and the recent opening of a new Redfield primary school - and also its own unique issues.

Being split between different wards has resulted in a lack of focussed attention on the area in the past.

Redfield is a vibrant, diverse and rapidly developing area of Bristol that deserves its own councillors.

Many thanks

Jenny Grinsted

From: To: Subject: FW: Boundary Change Date: 18 August 2014 09:14:35

From: Susan Hazell Sent: 17 August 2014 08:53 To: Reviews@ Subject: Boundary Change

Thank you for giving me the opportunity of putting forward my view on ward boundaries.

I live in a district of Bristol that lies very close to the boundary of Gloucestershire. Local people refer to this area as ‘Upper Brentry’, since it sits at the top of a hill above Brentry, yet is separated from Southmead, the other nearest ward, by green space, parkland and a golf course.

It is a small, isolated but close community that unfortunately is further divided by a road boundary decision. Therefore, half our population falls in the Brentry & Henbury ward, whilst the other falls in the Southmead ward.

Please could I request that we be considered for a boundary change, so that all the community belongs to the Brentry & Henbury ward, since most residents attend shops, schools and doctor surgeries there.

Kind regards,

Mrs. Susan Hazell, From: To: Subject: FW: redcliffe ward Date: 15 October 2014 10:45:22

-----Original Message----- From: Douglas Heller Sent: 20 September 2014 06:45 To: Reviews@ Subject: redcliffe ward please add my support as a local resident to the creation of a Redcliffe ward, to reflect it's past economic importance and it's future due to the burgeoning population of the area

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Dr D Heller From: To: Cc: Subject: FW: REDCLIFFE WARD IN BRISTOL Date: 23 September 2014 10:31:43

From: Angela Hogg Sent: 23 September 2014 10:14 To: Reviews@ Cc: Subject: REDCLIFFE WARD IN BRISTOL

Sir/Madam, I recommend that Redcliffe should be a discrete ward. (I am a member of the Redcliffe Forum in my capacity as a working volunteer in the Redcliffe area /community and a member of St Mary Redcliffe church.)

Redcliffe has its own developing character but is not a ward. Instead its activities and population are subsumed in other wards whose numbers have greatly increased and are projected for further significant increase.

Examples of current population and projected growth in each of the "subsuming" wards are as follow: Southville 10188 - projected 11220 Cabot 10821 - projected 12648 Lawrence Hill 11102 - projected 13098

And further out Windmill Hill 9844 - 10444 Filwood 8643 - 9196

Knowle is fairly stable at just over 8000 and enjoys a very distinctive identity with exciting developmental movements

Redcliffe is on the cusp of a divide between north and south/rich and poor. To beat this divide we need the chance to work together as a community. There is a groundswell in the direction of community cohesion. Redcliffe needs to be a discrete ward to effect positive socio-economic change.

Angela Hogg

From: To: Subject: FW: Boundary Consultation Date: 13 August 2014 16:07:25

From: ronald humphrey [mailto: ] Sent: 13 August 2014 15:57 To: Reviews@ Subject: Boundary Consultation

I live in , which has the boundary line between St George & Easton Wards running down the middle of the road. One of the problems I have been trying to resolve for over 3 years has been exacerbated by the need to deal with firstly, Easton and Lawrence Hill Neighbourhood Forum, and then St George Neighbourhood Forum. This involved the problems we have with pavement parking. I know this is not only happening in my Ward, but throughout Bristol. But because the pavements here are only 31 inches wide, it causes great concern to local people. Mothers with pushchairs, and children, along with the elderly, who have to walk in the road to get past vehicles. This road has a high volume of traffic and is used as a Rat-Run between Church Road, and Whitehall Road. It also has up to (10), 30 Ton Articulated vehicles using it every day. Last year, I managed to get part funding for a Feasibility Study from Easton. I was then told that St George would have to provide the remainder. I had to then go through the same process again, attending many meetings, producing photographic etc. Eventually this year, they provided the remainder needed. I have suggested various actions that could be taken, but at the end of the day, it will all boil down to finance, and the resolve of the Traffic and Transport Department as to what they decide. I have been told that a decision will be made later this summer. What is very significant about this, is the roads either side of Lyppiatt Road. Victoria Parade, and Roseberry Park, (Both being in separate Wards) and having less through traffic, have really good, wider pavements, and better maintained roads. My suggestion to the Local Government Boundary Commission, is that the boundary in this case, is redrawn, so that it goes down between the back gardens of Lyppiatt Road, and Albert Parade. Or between the back gardens of Lyppiatt Road, and Roseberry Park. I do hope this can be achieved. It will help me in trying to make this part of Inner City Bristol, a better, safer place, for all its residents. Ron Humphrey.