Liveable Neighbourhood Consultations - REDACTED

There has been a lot of coverage related to issues with the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood Scheme Consultations:

Bristol Live - 16 Jun 2025

Bristol City Council officers are accused of making up a fictional community group of people with disabilities, who they claimed formed part of the consultation over controversial plans for road changes in the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood.

However the local authority is now not able to say who the group were or give any evidence of their existence.

Keep Bristol Moving! - 23 May 2025

he [Tony Dyer] was quizzed on the East Bristol ‘Liveable Neighbourhood’ (timestamp 23:30). When asked by Neil Maggs whether he could have ‘handled it better’, particularly the ‘consultation’, Tony admitted that this was ‘a very good question’.

Having inherited the policy from the previous Labour administration, the Green Party apparently, according to Tony, didn’t really know much about the consultation when they started to implement the scheme back in the autumn. With hindsight, he said, they should have ‘maybe’ reviewed it first before they cracked on.

Lessons Learned?

It appears that BCC have taken another look at the Consultation Process for EBLN and taken some immediate action by removing a "Public consultation" that was planned to take place between Sep 2025 and Nov 2025, before the "Permanent scheme" was decided.

EBLN Timeline - 05/04/2025 and EBLN Timeline - 12/07/2025

South Bristol Liveable Neighborhood (SBLN)

I have also found that data related to the SBLN Consultation has been removed by the Council.

Interactive Map

From 11 July to 13 October 2024 we gathered feedback on the issues that currently affect streets within the South Bristol Liveable Neighbourhoods area. We created an interactive map and survey for members of the public to provide feedback. We have produced a report on the feedback received.

Anyone was able to look at the comments submitted on the Interactive Map and I have been working on taking the data from the map and carrying out analysis on the comments received. But when I tried to access the map a few weeks ago I found that it had "disappeared".

I submitted a Freedom of Information Request on 05/07/2025 and asked for the detailed Interactive Map data to be made available. BCC should respond to my request by 07/08/2025.

This week the Council published an Engagement Report which includes their own analysis of the Interactive Map comments.

The analysis in this report is useful and interesting, but without having access to the original raw comment data there is no opportunity for residents (like me) to carry out our own analysis. Given the problems with the EBLN Consultations, it is important that the Council carry out the SBLN Consultations in a more transparent and open manner.

I am only asking BCC to adhere to the principles and processes that they have themselves declared to be important to them.

Open Data

We publish raw data to be transparent about the information we hold and to encourage citizens and organisations to reuse data to help others do things they want to do or to understand things.