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The playpark you chose will be installed this summer
HOTWELLS & CLIFTONWOOD COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
this design by Sutcliffe Play was a clear leader in the consultation for a new park
With a budget of 43,000, five companies were asked to to come up with designs for the refurbishment of Charles Place play park. Some members of our park support group and Cllr. Trevor Blythe looked at the designs and shortlisted two of these. A further public consultation, led by Deborah White for the City Council produced a clear winner. This design offers a wide range of play options for both pre-school and primary age children. The existing gates and fencing will be replaced and the planting will be improved and all the equipment and the surfacing will be new. As well as BCC play officer John Knowlson and project manager Vicki Abel who have patiently steered us through the process, thanks are due to Cllr Blythe for submitting our application for capital funding and to the Clifton & Cabot Neighbourhood Partnership for their financial support. Above all, we must thank the many local people who came forward to make it clear that the park was needed and to suggest their own ideas for improvement. Their presence was invaluable when the possibility of funding became a reality. Work on the park may start as soon as May. An opening party to celebrate seems a good idea. Well publicise the date as soon as we have a firm date for completion.
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Charles Place office closes
But the work of the Community Association will go on much as before, trying to serve your community and ensure the good things are maintained and that the not so good things are prevented or improved. For many years the CA operated out of what was then Hope Centre. We then moved in 2007 to Hotwell Road and almost a year later to Charles Place. Time was when the CA had sources of funding, not least from Bristol City Council, to support some of our activities but, as with many voluntary organisations, this funding has dried up. We have managed to keep our office this long with the generous help of the Panto fund and our own reserves. However, circumstances have changed and we now have fewer visits to the office, fewer meetings or letters to attend to; more e-mail, social media and internet communication, which can be dealt with from anywhere by exploiting the computer technology now available for trustees and supporters to share information from home. Our current office occupies a space in Dr. Rings surgery which anticipates an extension of activity this summer when all the space will be occupied for health care, so we are sure the timing is right. We can assure you that we shall continue to try and serve the area as we have done in the past. Our move coincides with Rosemary Stibbons decision to resign her post as our admin assistant. Rosemary has given very many years of loyal service to HCCA, as active member, Trustee and our administrative support. Rosemary moved away from Hotwells some years ago and is becoming more and more involved in her new community in Windmill Hill, so we take this opportunity to say a very big thank you to her for all she has done and wish her well for the future.
Dennis Gornall
Deer, oh Deer!
For the last few months we have had one, and later a second, beautiful deer coming into our garden from the wild area between the Portway and the Avon Gorge Hotel. Our house sits by a gap between terraces on St Vincents Parade and also has an old bridleway running up the side, so we think they are finding their way down through there. We eventually contacted Mandy Leivers, the Avon Gorge and Downs biodiversity education officer. She proved very helpful: They sound like roe deer that live wild around here. We have regular sightings of them in the gorge and on the Downs. Theyre part of our natural fauna rather than Ashton Court escapees. Roe deer numbers have been increasing in recent years so were getting more sightings of them and it really isnt unusual to see them in Clifton and Westbury park gardens. They regularly swim between Leigh Woods and the Bristol side of the gorge. I suspect that because spring is so late this year theyre venturing into your garden because theres a lack of food in the woods. Im sure once the leaves start to burst theyll head back to the woods again. Heartbreakingly, they stand at our fence, gazing longingly across the river, as if they wish to join some other deer somewhere. They usually stay at the fence until a noisy truck goes by on the Portway, or they spot us looking at them through the kitchen window.
Jayne Marshall
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Hotwells & Cliftonwood Community Association c/o Southernhay House, Southernhay, Bristol BS8 4TL tel: 0117 9291883
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Dennis Gornall (Chair) Brenda McLennan (Treasurer) Rosemary Stibbon Administrator Ray Smith Communications Mike Timmins Open spaces Helena Kowalski Anna Wilson
Community News
Trinity Care Service reduced
Trinity Care Service, which is part of Holy Trinity Church Hotwells, has provided a Day Centre for older people in Hotwells and surrounding areas for many years. With a hot meal, friendship, and activities. Its main aim is to reduce isolation and loneliness. This has in the past been supported by funding from Bristol City Council Health and Social Care, paid directly as a block funding grant. From March 2012 the method of funding changed to a personal budget system which links directly to individuals rather than services. In March 2012 about 25% of our clients qualified for this new funding. Inevitably over time they have become more frail and moved on. Since then, TCS has not had clients referred to take their place with Health & Social Care funding which would have maintained a secure financial base. The numbers of those who are not eligible for personal budgets -some in their 90s -are rising but there is no Health & Social Care funding to cover the costs of this preventative care service. Without this, we have had to rely very heavily on fundraising. So far, local charities, individuals and organisations, including the Neighbourhood Partnership, have been very generous and enabled us to stay afloat, but this funding is becoming much more difficult. The TCS Management Committee have therefore decided that reliance on donations to the extent that we do- the vast majority of our funding means that in the long term TCS is no longer viable in its current form. The Management Committee has looked at the alternatives of: a. carrying on as we are for a short period until we have used all available funds and then closing completely, b. very significantly increasing our meal and day charges or
the former Dock Gates Tavern as it has looked for some years
green light
from Transition Hotwells & Cliftonwood
c. reducing the level of our service enabling us to carry on for a longer period. We have concluded that the latter is the best alternative and TCS will reduce its service from the current three day opening to a one day a week service on Thursdays only with effect from 30th June 2013. Sadly, this will mean redundancies for our long serving staff who have done such magnificent work in keeping us going in the face of all these changes. Our service users will be supported in the change, hopefully most will switch to Thursdays and we will help find alternative day services for them in the local area. TCS welcomes all support from the local community in this new way forward-as volunteers, Committee Members, Volunteers or Service Users. If you can help, give Andy Murray a call on 0117 973 4281 or email : murraya@blueyonder.co.uk
It's spring time with fun events available and more on the horizon. You can ride the new cycle route to Long Ashton! Follow the Route 33 / Festival Way signs from the footbridge near CREATE through the allotments, past Bower Ashton, and through the car park on the far side of Ashton Court. Turn right along the traffic-free path on the pavement beside the B3128 and cross via new crossing. A new cycleway then takes you into Long Ashton.
Having worked up an appetite with a healthy cycle you can buy locally produced food with the local Bristol Pound currency at Reg the Veg in Boyces Avenue, or Text2Pay at Clifton Thali if you feel like a change from cooking, and help develop a resilient local economy at the same time. Looking further ahead, Bristol's Big Green Week in June will include the launch of the Solar City project, with 60 million pounds of PV investment currently lined up by Bristol Power Co-operative. If you would like to learn more, or keep in touch with with other sustainability activities in Bristol, contact Richard rjt_hancock@yahoo.co.uk, to join the the Transition Hotwells and Cliftonwood mailing list, or come to one of the "Lion" meetings - dates listed on the HCCA website.
protests about cuts to TCS outside Holy Trinity church last year
After a string of failed planning applications developers have obtained permission to demolish the ruins of 151 Hotwell Road which has been an eyesore for many years. The remaining 18th century facade of the building is said to be structurally unsound following earlier partial demolition. Sitting between Pooles Wharf flats and Brandon Hire, This was for many years the New Dock Gates Tavern on the corner of Dock Gate Lane and still marked as a pub on the 1949 OS map. It later became offices before falling into decay. No planning application for redevelopment was available at the time of going to press but it seems likely an application will be submitted for a new residential block.
So what else should we be looking at within Bristol? Well how about some real targets for our buses? Let me suggest:: 85% user satisfaction Services running up to midnight on 2/3 of main routes Unlimited travel for 2 per day 85% households have regular daytime services to city centre, to employment sites, to hospitals and to universities. All buses on main routes less than 5 years old. New waiting facilities at all main bus stops. An impossible dream? No just 6 out of 14 facts about Nottinghams buses. It can be done and it must be done.
To illustrate the shambolic state of bus services in Bristol we can draw on experience very close to home. We have a growing number of complaints from Hotwells residents about the summary abandoning of the Dowry Square stop by First Bus (see last edition). The official response from the operator places the blame squarely with the City Council for not upgrading or moving the stop: During our discussions (with BCC) we had been highlighting particular safety issues in relation to the bus stop at Dowry Square. In recent years we have had vehicles struck from behind whilst entering Dowry Square bus stop and we had several reported near misses with vehicles travelling down Hope Chapel Hill at excess speed. But local resident Mike Timmins has made a telling observation: I noticed that a new timetable had been displayed on the bus shelter. This proclaimed that the buses are once again stopping at the Dowry Square bus stop - BUT ONLY TO LET PASSENGERS OFF!!! This decision ...completely destroys the argument that the stop had been eliminated because of health and safety issues concerning buses rejoining Hotwell Road - unless, of course that risk is magically reduced the minute one or two passengers alight... its not enough to get annoyed with just the bus operators. We asked the City Transport Dept. about the feasibility of making a simple change to the stop, funded by an Active Neighbourhood Transport Grant but they have not even responded to us or our local Councillor before the closing date for an application. Another opportunity lost. Meanwhile, there is confusion about the inbound 902 Park and Ride Bus (operated by CT Plus) which we were assured is now stopping to pick up passengers from Hotwell Road. Usually they ignore my flapping arm but recently I did manage to board one of these for the first time. The driver then said Im not supposed to do this; so it seems, no instructions have been given to drivers regarding any new procedure. Ray Smith
the Art Under the Flyover event in 2011 was the first time Cumberland Piazza had been used in this way
Hotwells Pantomime
King Arthur and the Knights of the Cumberland Basin played to the usual capacity audience for 4 nights in March. In fact 2 nights sold out within hours of the tickets becoming available. The show was ambitiously staged with a cast of thousands (well, at least 50) at the limit of what resources the space in Hope Chapel could provide. As well as a giant bed, projectile baby, shadow puppets and some deafening pyrotechnics, it somehow incorporated a flying suspension bridge and an elevating band leader (Sue Otty see pic. right) into the story. Our thanks to the ever-tolerant Hannah and Chris of Hope Community Church for putting up with this annual disruption again. The production made a healthy contribution to funds available for community projects.
Events Diary
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Thu May 2nd Fri May 3rd-31st Sun May 5th Sun May 5th-12th when what where Holy Trinity Church 07:00- City Council Election 22:00 Bristol Festival of Ideas http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/ Bristol 10K run (road closures 06:00-11:30) Bristol Walking Festival http://www.bristol.gov.uk/page/ leisure-and-culture/bristolwalking-festival-2013 10:00- Clifton Rocks Railway Open 16:00 Day (no children under 14) 19:30 HCCA Community Meeting Residents Parking Zone proposals Bristol Concert Wind Band Bristols Biggest Bike Ride http://www.bigbikeride.org/ Home.html Bristol Cycle Festival http://bristolcyclefestival.com/ Bristol Festival of Nature http://www.bnhc.org.uk/home/ festival.html Big Green Week http://biggreenweek.com/ Gromit Unleashed http:// www.gromitunleashed.org.uk/ St. Pauls Carnival http:// www.stpaulscarnival.co.uk/ Up to 70 locations around Bristol Portland Square and around Harbourside Cumberland Basin Locations around Bristol
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Cliftonwood Community Garden Argyle Place - looking superb in the spring sunshine. Congratulations to everyone who has contributed to this!
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