FOCUS ON: Funding for community projects Langton Road safety improvements:
Sand Hill daffodils:
Way back in January, 2019 we led a successful campaign and secured funding for pedestrian improvements on Langton Road by St. Anne’s Infants School in Brislington West. We were promised these improvements would be within the year, but over three years later and nothing has materialised. Understandably, many projects were put on hold due to the pandemic and council officers did consult on new plans, which led to a further delay. Late last summer, council officers told us that new proposals were almost ready to go out for consultation but we have heard nothing since then. We have written to the Mayor for an urgent update.
Great to see the daffodils we planted last year on the grassy verge near the junction of Sand Hill and Sandhurst doing so well. We plan to add some more this autumn to bring some much needed colour to this part of the ward.
New avenue planted: Tree planting on Callington Road has now been completed. Both sides of the road between Tesco and the A37 junction are now lined with trees, which in time will hopefully lead to the creation of a beautiful avenue.
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Full Council: Bristol Lib Dems have tabled a motion calling for the city to take a lead in developing solutions to the problem of increasing quantities of electronic waste which contain rare minerals and elements but which are often difficult to recycle. The motion calls on the Council to work to increase the repair and reuse of electronic devices as well as to work with local universities and others to help develop improved technologies for recycling these. We are living in an increasingly connected world, and with that has come a proliferation of electronic gadgets and gizmos. Many of these have an artificially shortened lifestyle due to planned obsolescence, and all of them will require disposal at some point.
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