Chris McEvoy

Since the "Bristol Pound" disappeared in 2020, we have not had a local unit of currency in Bristol. I am proposing a new unit of currency for our city. A "Bristol Beacon" represents £132 million pounds. This value is based on the estimated cost of the

I have been looking at information related to Bristol City Council and legal actions they have been involved in. I have now added a new set of reports to Bristol Uncovered (look for "The Law" button) to see the three new reports. Local Government Ombudsman Decisions This report

A recent news report on Bristol Live by one of our Local Democracy Reporters Alex Seabrook, covered the Audit Committee Meeting held on 28 Jul 2025 where Freedom of Information was discussed: Last year the Information Commissioner’s Office ordered Bristol City Council to get better at responding to freedom

There have been 2,830 Applications for Taxi Licences in Bristol between January 2023 and July 2025. Of these 46% (1,290) are Renewals and 54% (1,540) are New Applications. Of the 1,540 New Applications made in since January 2023 94% (1,445) are still "In Progress&

In 2019 Bristol City Council passed a Silver Motion "Delivering the phasing out of pesticide/weed-killers in Bristol" ending the use of such weed killers was a pledge in the Mayor Rees and Labour Party 2016 election vision statement. to request the Mayor to commission a report that

I collate news articles about Bristol from many different sources: * News about Councillors * News about Bristol City Council * News from Bristol Bloggers * News from the Local Democracy Service * News from The Bristolian * News from The BBC * News about Freedom of Information Requests You can now access all of these news