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After months of trying, I have finally got the comments made as part of the SBLN Engagement Survey that took place last year. This article provides some analysis of the 6,084 comments received, but you can explore the data yourself on BU Reports (look for the SBLN button). Here

I have noticed that the weeds are doing really well in Southville this summer. I did wonder if the Council had given up on spraying weeds due to budget cut backs. But no, it appears that our Councillor Christine Townsend made a unilateral decision to stop using weedkillers (glysophate) all

Bristol celebrated its reaccreditation as a City of Sanctuary in Feb 2025. As we enter another weekend of people talking about Protests and Counter Protests, and whether Bristol is a welcoming place for refugees, I thought it might be helpful to look at what the available data tells us about

The latest Annual Report for Tenants and Leaseholders has just been published. This table shows the key measures for the last 10 years (if you believe the published figures!) * Properties let in the year increased to 1,058 from last year * The average number of days to re-let a property

Please note that the 16,677 number for the "Do not introduce Digital ID cards" petition was correct as at 28/09/2025 21:04 You can see more recent data on my UK Petitions Report. The UK Government Petitions website provides some interesting data about Petitions created

I have already written about my attempts to get sight of the comments submitted as part of the South Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood (SBLN) engagement survey. I did manage to get hold of some of the comments but I am still waiting for BCC to provide the rest of them. (I

The Monitoring Strategy for the EBLN was published in September 2025. I would have expected this to be published in the "Bristol Documents Library", but instead it was published on the Survey Site used by BCC at https://files.smartsurvey.io/3/0/7JLPT0FJ/EBLN_Monitoring_Strategy_(September_