Saving Hartcliffe Community Farm

Hartcliffe Community Park Farm is one of the largest City Farms in Europe and has been operating, as a free community farm, for over 25 years. But the farm faced a new threat with the danger of having its funding cut by the Council. I worked with Directors at the farm and we fought a successful campaign, even securing the backing of the local newspaper, the Evening Post, and managed to win back the funding for the farm from the Council. Since then the farm has steadily worked its way to recovery and is now looking at providing a community agriculture facility. This will bring local people and food production together. Want to know more about the farm then visit it HERE.

South Bristol Ring Road

In 2006 a threat of a ring road carving through the heart of Whitchurch Park ward and running along the slopes of Dundry Hills grew. A Government report called for the road along the threatened route and this report then formed part of the Council’s long term strategy. I have always opposed this route and campaigned against it. Once elected I worked with the Alliance Against the South Bristol Ring Road and residents to ensure our voice was heard. Within two years we successfully convinced the Council to remove all plans for the threatened route and drop all plans for a stage 3.  The South Bristol link road and rapid transit route has received funding but this will be a single carriageway road that ends at Hartcliffe. The rapid transit route will provide a 12 minute frequency service which will see access to the city centre in as little as 20 minutes.

Whitchurch Lane Chicanes

In 2006 I led a campaign to remove two sets of chicanes that had been placed along Whitchurch Lane. The chicanes were causing long traffic delays, serious accidents and a great deal of local anger. We ran a petition calling for an immediate review which was agreed to by the Council. We then ran a survey of local residents – the results of which can be found HERE. Following this the Council agreed to remove the chicanes – you can watch this video about the REMOVAL OF THE WHITCHURCH LANE CHICANES which was filmed the day they started to remove them in 2007.