Member Forum – Questions & Statements from Councillors – Tuesday, 9th January, 2024 12.30 pm
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Thank you all and welcome to today’s member Forum meeting some safety information first I’d like to draw your attention to the emergency evacuation procedure please exit the building from the nearest exit and congregate by the cathedral right full details of the questions submitted to member forum and the mayor’s written replies have been
Published on the council’s website groups have submitted their questions in priority order and are presented rotating around the party groups each counselor has asked a maximum of two questions about one topic or two separate questions about two different topics counselors have a maximum of two supplementary questions if a counselor asks one
Question they have one supplementary and if they ask two questions they can ask one supplementary per question asked so without further Ado we’ll go straight on to Green question one uh counc Fodor thanks very much Lord mayor um I was concerned about the the replies from
The mayor I I think he’s kind of either missed the point or or is confused about some of the issues my question uh was about access not about Road Safety it was about collaboration not about centralization um and he offered to communicate but he hasn’t said when and
How he’s going to communicate on the issues that are holding up routine recycling services in streets where there are regular parking obstructions in terms of the second question he just simply hasn’t hasn’t thank CC could if I could just ask you to ask your supplementary questions please yeah well I would have preferred
An answer to my second question because what I’m having to do is saying here in in terms of supplementary he seems to have missed the point and and failed to to answer the point I I’m seeking joined up Council services to deliver basic ret yeah if you could just sorry if you
Could just ask you a supplementary question I understand that you you you you don’t think the response is satisfactory but if you could just ask you supplementary questions and then we can move on so so will the mayor support joined up Council action to make sure our routine services to our residents
Can get delivered if if uh highways legal uh waste client waste contractor and the communities can work together then we could have services that work every week in the narrow streets where there’s no management of parking yeah I mean that that it might be one of the reason that sometimes with
The greatest respect your um questions are difficult to answer because we don’t quite know what they are um you do if I can just suggest that one of the things that would be helpful if if rather than a page of Preamble we just had a shter preamble and then uh the question it
Would just really help um myself and the officers as we tried to navigate our way through uh the information if the question is do we support join up working then the answer is simply yes C do you have a second supplementary yeah I’m I’m glad I’m glad the mayor
Supports that um I I I think the the the issue is that it’s the council that’s in the way of routine Services operating effectively and and I don’t think that’s satisfactory um it’s two years in this chamber since I I said we need better information and he agreed and he said
That could be Corner protected will we get Corners protected so our trucks and emergency vehicles can get round is that your is that your second supplementary question will you support action on that so we get routine recycling services in the streets on the days when they meant to
Happen uh again just trying to uh work out um your question will I support people working with uh Council officers working with communities to uh make sure our streets are as accessible as possible bearing in mind that this is a very crowded City uh with a population
That’s growing uh at a rate of knots uh yes I will thank you uh labor question one um councelor ali um Barton house and Lawrence Hill station um hi um first question is could the mayor provide an update on Barton house thanks very much uh councelor um
Amal and uh uh first off just to say thank you for the leadership and the support you’ve shown to the community um and to the city uh in what’s been an incredibly uh challenging time uh for the residents in particular uh but also that you know the all the the workers
And the services and the uh Community leaders that have rallied around to support people uh so we will be providing a fuller update on Barton House on Wednesday uh but uh we want to make sure as you’ll know from last time as well that the residents get that information
First so we are being incredibly careful last time uh we remember that unfortunately when we were briefing uh people who possibly should have known better at the same time that was being relay to the press and and that led to unnecessary confusion um and concerns so
We want to make sure that the residents are respected um and they get the briefings uh first uh but we have had um some updates you again you’ll be aware we had the session Before Christmas in uh in the the the conference Hall where we said we’d come back in the new year
Uh with a fuller update at that session in the conference Hall we just went again over how we’ve got to the situation uh we are in an Engineers report that suggested to us the building was not safe a fire service that confirmed that decanting of the building was an appropriate level of intervention
Um and so having to well I think the to avoid any kind of grenfell level rolling of the dice with the lives of residents that’s what we did then our job was to make sure that for those people whose lives were interrupted in inconvenience by being moved uh from uh their their
Homes that we were providing the wraparound support uh that they would need free travel uh making sure that they have hotel rooms food provision and obviously uh lower and higher level emotional mental support you know as well and and obviously you’ve been an integral part of that it is unfortunate
That uh uh that a move on our behalf as a local Authority that has been based on the prioritization of the safety of our residents um has been uh kicked around not just in the city but also in his chamber unfortunately is a bit of a political football uh uh because this is
All about the the safety um of the residents uh but we’ll just continue doing all we can to make sure that we serve them in a way that we should thank you um there’s a follow-up question I wanted to ask um I know the council has provided activities for children at H in
But some residents were asking me if the council would work with Partners to provide activities award from the holiday over this recent school school breaks Kai are Kai are you aware of any external activities provided to Residents during the holidays yeah thank thanks and um yeah
We um we have had a lot of support from external Partners so I know over the um Christmas period that the sports clubs in the city um provided free tickets to to matches um we’ve also had a recent offer from everyone and active so um they’re providing free gym and Leisure
Center membership to um the residents affected as well um so we’ve had a lot of support from um partner organizations and and individuals as well fantastic um my second sorry my other question is I will be campaigning to have the west of England comined Authority their plans to make Lawrence Hill station more
Accessible for parents with pushers and wheelchair uses does the mayor support this campaign absolutely I mean it’s one of the great travesties of the city’s uh transport offering among many uh at the lack of accessibility of uh some of the stations uh you know in our um in our
City I would add to that this is one of the reasons we do need a chapter change in our transport offering uh for Bristol uh not only does it go back to the first uh councelor fodor’s point about how we make uh transport provision for people in an increasingly crowded uh City but
By introducing a new transport offering uh it what it does do is it makes sure that it is at the top end of accessibility uh both in terms of the physical access to the the stations or the the the entry points uh but also the routes it takes around the city as well
Bringing parts of the city that have been left out of the city center we thinking about har cliff and nor West as well into uh into with the accessibility but that does require a mass transit system it requires a segregated mass transit system that serves some of the
Densest areas that cannot be delivered without elements of underground the alternative to an underground is overground segregated which means closing the main routes uh at GLA Road uh St Luke’s malago Road uh Church Road in Bristol which is why it will never get delivered uh so that’s the only hope
The city has for a chapter change in the way we do transport around Bristol thank you uh councelor gandras thank you Lord Baron and thank you Marvin for your helpful and constructive answer which I think recognizes the scale of the problem at Bristol waste at the moment um I will
Take up your offer to to speak to tamalii uh alimail Mali tomorrow he’s not listening to me but there we go Ali M you tomorrow because it affects not just my ward but lots of wards in North Bristol and maybe Wards Beyond North Bristol and it is the recycling that
Seems to have gone wrong rather than the black bin collection so we’ll just to see if we can put our heads together and see if there is a way of perhaps trying to get to the root of what the problems are thank you for your answer can I just
Say um I talk to the EXA director to get raise your concerns directly uh with the exec director so that offer of a gathering is is there so thank you and I may as well just take the platform as well to say can I say in the answer if
You haven’t read the answer counselors if any of you have had issues with the collections the offer is to meet with Bristol waste uh the counselors and Bristol waste to make sure they’re fully uh fully aware of which Wards are being impacted and then then the council has
Have an opportunity as well to feed into Bristol waste what we think the solutions uh what the particular challenges and what we think the solutions would be but and they’re very open to that thank you um now I’m not sure exactly because I have a discrepancy in
Between what I’ve got on the modov and on my sheet um I’ll go I’ll go to Tim Kent with the Lim question one first uh thank you Lord mayor um well I agree with the mayor that the council does have reduced funding to look at but we’re put aside the £40 million of
Council taxpayers money your administrations lost through poor financial control the cost of opening our Branch libraries uh is a very small amount they are welcome spaces they’re really important could you agree to instruct officers this week to ensure next week our Branch uh our our Branch
Libraries are F open through the use of additional staff and Casual staff yeah I mean I like I ignore the kind of usual snipe I mean what I will do is talk to officers to manage our services as best we can and resources we have available uh to us which is an
Unavoidable constraint on our ability to be everything we wish we could be um at this time and it’s not Beyond anyone’s uh awareness I’m sure that uh one in5 local authorities are at risk of filing for 114 as well so we’re we’re managing things as as best we can while delivering for
Bristol Tim did you have a second question I do thank you Lord mayor um would the mayor be willing to organize uh a a small ceremony or thank you party for the litter Pickers and Community groups in our area they save us literally tens of thousands of pounds
Through their work and just a small thank you I think we go a long way yeah we’ve done a number of events uh thanking volunteers when we started up Clean Street under leadership of Kurt James who’s a an incredible uh Community uh worker for us um in in the council we
Had three prongs to that one was about um improving uh uh supporting communities to uh collect waste on the streets of their area and bag it with the support of waste secondly was to introduce fines so we didn’t just ask volunteers to thanklessly go out and pick up litter without us taking action
On the people that were making our city uh dirty and the second was to look at the whole waste system for Bristol so as we bring new housing developments through for example or we look at our our food chains uh one of the questions that’s raised very early doors is how do
We build systems and City systems that reduce the amount of waste that we generate um and that goes goes for the construction uh sector as well so it is in our our daily life of consumer goods uh but life um in general um but as a
Part of that there were uh re real regular thank yous and touch points uh for those people who have gone out onto the streets uh you know and picked up and and baged litter um so I will talk to Kur about where we are um um in those
Thanku um and uh yeah it’s it’s it’s a no-brainer to well one is to thank those people who do go out to pick up our streets but also to implore those people who do continue to drop litter and fly tip uh to stop it costs the city lots of
Money it cost us millions of pounds a year uh to clean it up and and all the efforts we’ve put into making Bristol tidy will always be undermined if people continue to treat this uh if a small number of people I should say continue to treat the the city with disrespect
And other residents with disrespect by droping a here councelor Hopkins and the Clean Air Zone uh thank you Lord mayor um clearly as is acknowledged in the question any changes or adjustments in the scheme Clean Air Zone will require government approval uh will it be the case that the
Uh mayor brings forward this report in a way that allows for debate across this Council so that positive ideas can be taken into account and put to government for any adjustments that may be possible okay I hope I’ve I’ve got the gist of what you said any the the test
Is delivering compliance in the shortest possible time um and again it’s worth just remembering about the Clean Air Zone because I know there’s a lot of uh energy around here it is a legal requirement uh to deliver compliant there as short as possible time we warned national government it was a
Blunt instrument even within this chamber while we were negotiating and pushing back on theres coffee uh about how blunt an instrument it was and it could have negative consequences for some people we were criticized uh you know people taking the opportunity to get themselves in a paper to criticize
Us for that what we were doing was standing up for households businesses uh uh within the city and even the hospital who could be negatively impacted and making sure that we got a support package in place to make sure we have a just uh uh transition uh but that legal
Requirement is the ultimate test what I would say we do councelor Hopkins is any changes to it have to be have to be able to stand up against that test in a court of law because that’s where we’d be if we did anything to undermine the
Integrity of the scheme uh but that the Clean Air Zone and it will be in your hands in this chamber does not have to be a permanent intervention it is there to change behaviors and once behaviors and vehicles have changed if we are moving around a city in in a way that
Does not push our air um over the limits of compliance uh then it then technically I suppose it it wouldn’t be needed that’s fine because uh any scheme will change in the light of experience we’ve now had a Year’s experience so central government should surely listen uh the second question though
Supplementary is that last Council last full member Forum I asked for data on swimming pool costs they didn’t come any answer and I used my supplementary to say can I have written answers please to this question and I was promised that they would arrive they have not can I
Now get a second promise that those that all the data on the cost on swimming pools will now um this is this the point is you didn’t receive the the data you were promised in your question okay well we’ll Chase up but I I would urge you as well you
Don’t have to wait for the next four Council if you just drop us a note in between times as well and if you’ve not had a response from the officers then you can let my office know and we’ll chase them up um for you as well councelor
Haway thanks and uh thank thank you for your detailed answer about street lights um my first question was is it the uh is the issue that there are the lack of spare parts that’s driving the delay or is it um poor service being delivered by the contractor themselves or is it a
Mixture of the two well I I’m I’ve not had no feedback to say that we’ve had a particularly poor service what I have had an indication is that it’s not always easy to come a hold of the parts um I I’ll check again but that’s that’s what I understand at the
Moment thanks and um you mentioned that there’s this transition period um that we’re in at the moment that’s quite a helpful answer to be able to give to Residents is there any way of getting that on to fix my street so that when people go on to check the jobs on there
You know they’ve got the answers they’re ready yeah I I mean maybe there’s a couple of things we can do here one is if we make a note of trying to get that one to fix to fix my street maybe what I could also do is ask for a a note with
Your with this answer as well to be sent to All counselors so they’re aware of where things are at right now with this and what the challenges of rolling it out you know have been right and and the benefits of doing so as well so I’ll
Make a note and ask people to get that done thank you I see councelor breel isn’t with us so uh councelor Eddie can I thank the mayor for his replies please I’ve got two questions firstly he mentions a de consultation in July to September where can I find the findings of this
Please um I will I will get them and get those sent to you as well that’s a few things I need to chase up now I’ll I’ll get those sent to you direct ccor ready thank you number two last March when Bristol West G the package of cuts and fee
Increases conservative cancels describe them as managing to a fly tius Charter can he tell us have actually the savings produced the desired savings who were wanted or in fact has the in increased cost purely been spent on actually picking up the fight tipping which has
Resulted yeah let me go and and and test those and and what they look like to us at the moment is a saving um what I would say is that it is a common conversation amongst local government at the moment of all of all colors uh that
Because we you know manage our budgets on a yearly cycle that some of the means we have at our disposal to make sure we bring our budgets in in a balanced way come at the risk of inre increased costs over the medium to long term that’s in children’s services adult social care
Housing uh support and there there clearly is going to be a risk here on waste I mean what you’ve put your finger on is a risk and we don’t deny that but we do have that over overwhelming uh need to bring home the balanced budget this year um and it’s
One of the reasons that I I think not just as labor but as LGA as well and when I was chairing the city regions board we were talking about multi-year settlements for government so we could plan our finances over a much longer time period thinking about how we spend
To save as well as as well as avoiding uh cuts at Cost uh you might say uh but let me get some numbers back to you on the exact balance of that as as we understanding it thank you I know councelor Davis is not with us so um as long as councelor
Plowden’s ready I know he’s just walked in Ed it’s your question sorry I’ve already just arrived I’ve been told that um the first question is uh I’ve had residents concern that people living in Flats have a smaller uh waste capacity allowance than normal people and we’ve asked questions about this but never
Really had a meaningful answer and I was wondering if there’s any explanation for why people get a smaller uh capacity allowance when when they live in Flats just a minor point I would say people who live in flats are also normal people um but um the the I mean the technical aspects
Of managing waste uh it’s in terms of making decisions about where the balancing is and where the roots are um I do defer to the expertise of uh the Bristol uh Waste Company um on that front if if we are seeing and if if the evidence is suggesting that an
Adjustment in capacity has been implemented and that adjustment in capacity is inappropriate then feed that back in there will be in a period of adjustment where there’s a rebalancing and a re-rooting happening it’s the first time it’s it’s been done since 11 12 it will be based on evidence it would
Be based on expertise and that would be uh evidence and expertise that’s designed to have a waste system that serves the city as it is not as it was in 1112 uh so please feed that back in and I’m sure brist waste will make the appropriate adjustments um thank you
I’ve just been informed that uh there’s a possibility that we could maybe have a meeting with Bristol waste to look at some persistent problems on uh that’s been offered to another colleague um we’ve got persistent problems on the new walls estate just behind the three lamps
And uh a lot of it is privately owned so when uh the residents are facing When Miss collections are miss the managing agent then puts in a fee for clearing up the resulting mess so would it be possible for us to get out with the relevant people onto the
New ORS of state and do some problem solving please uh well John glandis U councelor gandas raised um some points earlier on and and I and I said to councelor gandas I spoke to the head of Bristol was yesterday and I told him that uh concerns are being raised by
Counselors and I and I asked him um if he prepared uh be prepared with his team to meet with counselors from across the city so we can hear hear firsthand what is happening um and then you can take Collective action to to to work out what the
Solutions are um two things I would add to that by the way one is on that front just a second I only use oura right right on that front what I thought would be helpful is if rather than just turning up to the meeting with your list if every counselor with issues actually
Emailed my office all right but please for the sake of administration in the subject line right bring store waste so that it makes it easy for them to colate um older case studies um and then obviously put the put your ward at the top of your email so they can
Collect them collect them by Ward um if we can get those really Pronto we can collect them give them to Bristol way so when you go in the meeting you got the information uh you know ahead of time I would also um ask you in those emails as
Well as pointing out the issues have an initial stab at what the solutions could be uh but I also say for the sake of this year’s budget and next the solutions cannot just be we need another million pounds uh we have to think of some really innovative ways of of tackling
Littering and waste management um in the city so include those in your emails thank you I really appreciate that offer thank you councelor hon uh thank you very much for your answer um mayor um and I’m pleased that the the fees and the increase of the heating cost will be reviewed in the
Business plans however as you can imagine the residents have got hold of the liaison offices I’ve gone through the members inquiry plan and spoken to housing but we’ve not had a lukewarm response at best is it possible that you could um ensure us that they’d give us
More robust response in the next week or so on some of the issues yeah I can do that if you can just what again what would be helpful in my communication with them is if you just def def not being pincky here Define what you mean
By lukewarm as opposed to what you would mean by appropriate level of response so we can be clear to them on where where you feel as a counselor they’ve fallen short of offering a level of urgency that you and your residents uh would like them to receive then they can start
Acting on that Pronto before they uh before they respond it feels like they just don’t listen to the residents from what the stories I’ve been hearing from the residents so again evidence of what is the evidence uh that or or or what are the communications or the actions or
The inactions that’s LED that have left residents and yourself feeling like they haven’t been heard uh I I think sometimes people respond to uh issues in different ways they may not be effusive in their response but what they might be doing is doing the hard yards you know
Behind the scenes to get it done so I don’t make a judgment on the officers at the moment let’s be clear because actually it probably help them in future communications with counselors to know how how they can respond in a way that makes sure people feel they’ve been
Heard um and not feel they’ve been uh um kind of ignored or or not taken as seriously as they would have like and that’s an important part of quality Ser um customer service thank you thank you okay uh councelor Haka uh thank you Lord mayor thank you
Uh Marvin for your response um I don’t have any supplementaries um I will just take this opportunity to congratulate you on your OB in the New Year’s honors list well thank you very much I’ll be thank [Applause] you okay uh councelor Willcox is isn’t here so we’ll move on to councelor Jackson sorry
I’ve got no um supplementary to the first question but looking at your answer I can understand that the award was richly deserved by the green party um but question two I’ve got one supplementary um I know our group is lobbying the chancellor to re to reverse
This cut and household fund do you think that all the other partners should do the same and we should do it collaborative I think yes um in in in line with the kind of join up working that we’ve tried to drive it you know across the city it would be good it’s
Good when the city speaks with one voice this is an issue that I’ll be raising with the the one city office as well um because the consequences are not just for us as a local Authority but for the health service for criminal justice for um further education for schools as well
Uh and so if we can get a joined up City response City voice on that I think it will make you know our case all the stronger it’s also worth uh sharing as well that um it won’t just be Bristol it will be other cities and local authorities around the country raising their
Concerns and also uh I’d like to congratulate on your richly deserved um award from the King okay now uh councelor gandras your second question thank you thank you and thank you Marvin for the answer which again is very helpful um I won’t ask it as a supplementary because it’ be slightly
Unfair but I I’ll just make a point that the a wildlife trust own quite a stretch of land along the A4 and I think they’re quite interested in in noise pollution and reducing noise pollution so might be willing to work with us to to help us in some
Way yes um I think of another form as well councelor gradus actually uh because they are involved with our environment board and our um so we we’ll do you know we’ll look inhouse obviously at Council officers but actually we had a city office meeting yesterday and
Councelor D was there as well who now sits on it as chair of uh scrutiny um so you can check in with Tony as well and we’re just talking about the need for those those thematic bards under the city office to take on these kind of
Challenges as well and help come up with innovative solutions aan wildli chart sits on the in the environment board um so they can make their encourage them to make their voice known there as well but we you know we welcome the welcome The Challenge on it we we know it makes sense councilor
Rippington thank you L man um first of all thank you for the comprehensive response to the my first question um Marvin and and the team uh I I really want to thank councelor renhard for the the work that he particularly has put in to to make that happen with s an’s house
Um it’s a really brilliant initiative um if we can bring some housing along with that as well that’ be fantastic um I haven’t really got a supplementary to that one but I would you know would say that I’m sure they’ve they’d love to see you or or councelor Ellie King down
There and show you around and show you what they’re doing down there because it’s a it’s um a brilliant um uh you know uh site that’s going on there now um on my second question which is um transport related if we don’t get a mass transit
System in this city uh what do you see the the future infrastructure of our transport looking like like and what what what will the consequences be do you think I mean I don’t think it burs thinking about if we do not deliver a mass transit system for the city uh by
The definition a mass transit system moves masses of people around a place our population is growing uh we are going to our borders are restrictive on us uh we are having to focus more homes well we should as well so we don’t want to sprawl and we
Don’t want to consume Green Space within the city so we have to have people living more densely on Brownfield uh sites um we don’t want the city jammed up with cars ideally we’d be a city in which people didn’t have to have a car because they had a viable public uh
Transport um offering and and again as I go back to the point earlier on it one it’s one that has to be deliverable um I think you know it it has been a disappointing Journey because I think the starting point for for any leadership in Bristol is what’s the best
Right what is the best not we’re not worthy of the best all the best is pipe dreams and all that because you know that’s not what great places and and and great developments have been made of what is the best and then you pursue the best until the evidence tells you the
Best is not available um at the moment the whole process we’ve gone through at no point is it said no the process has said yes um in terms of the technical deliverability of a mass transit with underground in the densest areas and in terms of the financial viability of that
And bearing in mind that the national infrastructure commission only a few month just before my state of the city identified four cities for mass transit uh Leeds Manchester Birmingham and Bristol so outside of Bristol there are National bodies who have influence over billions of pounds of investment who are
Picking us out as a places that need mass transit and are worthy of having billions of pounds spent on it uh what’s been uh challenging and disappointing is that within the city and within the city region I would add to unfortunately uh that level of ambition for Bristol has
Not been matched uh and my concern is again it once once this Administration is over if if this chamber doesn’t pick up the mantle of wanting the best and fighting for the best for Bristol they will go down a route of pursuing a scheme that is undeliverable because I
Cannot see a future in which this chamber signs off interventions that close those main roads and require the compulsory purchase of land and buildings along those roads to make uh twood directional mass transit fit can’t fit it up and down gloss the road unless you CPO buildings up and down the side
Of the road make it 20 20 OD meters wide uh so in that sense if it if it isn’t done it will never get done and we’ll be on the patch aend approach we’ve always had the rail network won’t suffice the bus Network won’t suffice cycling
And walking won’t suffice for a city uh uh you know with with the geographical area that that we have um and I I just don’t think that future is Wess worth uh it’s a frightening future for us councelor Weston uh your question on libraries do you have supplementaries oh
Thank you very much my Lord mayor I do indeed um supplementary to question one and appreciate the response um I think many of us are used to Libraries closing at lunchtime that’s sort of a default setting it seems to be but over the last month there have been an awful lot of
Part Days full days and multi-day closures I remember an Irate email from Council Jackson just left the room um and I’m just wondering if you could tell me what the current driver Behind These recent Spates of part or full day multi-day closes has been is it that
We’ve got an increased sickness is it that we’ve not managed holiday requests properly or are we carrying a lot of vacancies in the team what’s the main driver yeah well the the as I think I I put my first we we are identifying quite a lot of stress and sickness on staff uh
Coming through um I mean bearing in mind as well that our our own Workforce is not immune to the challenges of The Wider society and we we have seen increasing levels of need across our population hence one of the drivers of increas in our our our social care costs
Um and our workers are part of that wider population and we have had vacancies I know Ellie’s sitting there so I don’t want to step on your toes Ellie in terms of managing uh but I guess the managers have been managing limited resource in a face of constant
Need uh but that and an increas in stress on that resource Ellie I don’t want to step on your toes inight did you want to input at all to this item um yeah I yeah so a lot of it has been sickness related and obviously they’re not immune to the The Wider
Pressures that are in the council as well um but also I think it is important to put it in context a lot of these closures are actually only part days um lunchtime hours and things like that so of a possible 100% of full opening hours there only
6.3% um is has been closed years so where you putting your question that you know the most I think that’s a bit of an exaggeration and isn’t quite how that’s been that’s not the reality that we thing seems to reality shared by some of your colleagues but okay I appreciate
That um in that case I have no further supplementaries but could I request it possible to you said 6.4% could I have a look at that data if that’s right is that possible to be sent thank you very much mon thank you um councelor hucker your second question about coulston Hall did
You have a supplementary on that uh thank you Lord mayor um I do but I’m not sure if the uh mayor will be in a POS position to answer it at this stage um I’d like to know whether this Arrangement means that a value will be assigned um to the venue in the
Council’s accounts um so perhaps um Marvin your officers will get back to me on that in due course I I’ll get the detail on how it will be how it’ll be recorded um here as well thank you but I I’m sure if you um I don’t know who’s had a chance to go
Over to The Venue at the moment I’m not going to ask her to show her hands that that might be painful but I I will say I was there with Lord um whose Name Escapes Me No Mendoza Lord Mendoza who was just well when we took him over to see Coulson
Statue and talked about the plans for that because he’s dealing with it I think he’s the um head of one of um Oxford’s colleges and they’ve been dealing with a statue issue uh there so he was looking at how we dealt with c uh but on his way over to Bristol Beacon
And he didn’t have an invite but we took him anyway so he he joined in the event uh he was just effusive about how incredible it is for a city like Bristol to have what he considers a world-class music venue uh here so I’m not saying it
Hasn’t been a painful uh Journey but what I am saying is that around the country and actually around the world people are talking about Bristol’s worldclass uh music uh venue and uh you know certainly the aim is to make sure that that really pays off uh for our
City not just as a a site of aspiration and kind of high culture as it were but one that genuinely offers opportunity to uh young people and communities right across Bristol um councelor Smith now Lan rental schemes yeah thank you Lord mayor and thank you Marvin these are um
Encouraging responses um the obvious followup to question one is could I have a copy please of the council’s response to that consultation yeah I’m sure that’s that’s fine brilliant thank you and uh our question two on on the percentages uh it seems there is a bit of um a bit of play
Here and a bit of leeway I note that there’s a feasibility study being commissioned you probably don’t have the answer to this right now but I’d be interested to know what assumptions are built into that feasibility study about how much of the network could be subject
To Lan rental um and if had a copy of the terms of reference of that and who’s doing it would be very helpful thank you okay I’m I’m sure we can do that but I’m going to go back to the uh following up from uh councelor rippon’s uh question
Here if we’re concerned about Road works then please cost your mind forward to a segregated overground mass transit system and the level of Road works that would accompany that in some of the densest parts of the area incl in the city including in our main arterial
Roads uh it’s a it’s a it’s a level of intervention uh that just doesn’t bear thinking about so I hope you’ll lend your concerns as you think about what options are in front of us and what are clearly not deliverable and would not be acceptable to Bristol okay it looks as though uh
Councelor mikelat and uh councelor gollop and councelor moris are not here so we can go uh that concludes the the member Forum questions um and I’ll now take no okay uh I’ll now take member statements in order of receipt I remind members that a maximum one minute will
Be allowed for the presentation of each statement uh there’ll be no debate on the statements and they will be referred to the mayor for consideration so uh councelor Hopkins you have the first one uh thank you Lord mayor um the answer to my colleagues question about whether we
Could expect strategic sill to be spent in red catch Park was a little vague uh and this uh statement actually follows up on that we are particularly it’s the case that a huge amount of money will be generated in in sill from this development and our park is right next
Door and we’ll have extra pressures upon it we therefore think it’s absolutely essential that some strategic sill is designated for Redcats Park what concerns us is that because parks in null have a much higher uh satisfaction rate than across the city so 90 2% as oppos the city average of
71.6 and better usage 73.1 compared to 56% uh that it will be regarded that the parks are in good enough condition anyway we have to point out that that satisfaction rate is being gained because of local effort and local uh control local investment and not by investment from the city council and the
Last time we actually got any was prior to the first mayor we have a list of things that need to be done and we hope as the petition which you’ll get later on uh says that there will be proper consultation local counselors we’ve been work protecting
Our park for the last 20 years and before any money is spent we want to make certain that we are properly consulted as people in the sil and the petition have agreed thank you councelor Hopkins uh councelor mallister uh Western har Advisory Group one minute thank you thank you
Lord mayor uh the Western Harbor Advisory Group is currently being refreshed uh this group will provide really essential oversight for one of the largest and most significant regeneration projects this city has seen in decades it’s essential that we do it right and it has therefore been quite disappointing to see that the mayor’s
Office has decided not to permit local counselors to take places on this group which is contrary not only to the expressed sentiment of counselors but also the overwhelming feeling of local residents who want to be able to see their representatives having influence on this project I ask that the
Administration reconsider this stance to exclude local Representatives after several years of uncertainty which has caused doubts and frustrations among residents it would be really good to show there is now a commitment to reassure residents that this the council does want to do this well thank you thank you very much okay uh moving
On to councelor fodo um your statement on Mis Recycling services yeah thanks very much Lord mayor um just to reminder our our weekly recycling collections serve every home in the city every week and I do think it is the mayor’s responsibility to prioritize the delivery of such basic core services to
City residents but with whole streets sometimes being missed week after week several weeks running in my ward like Melbourne road if we aren’t keeping streets open to allow essential vehicles through then it means the council is through through the client and through uh neglect isn’t allowing our contractor
To do their actual job which is to collect the materials properly and on time so it’s two years since I was in this forum and I was promised there should be better data to not to notice where these M streets are week after week but the chaotic parking hasn’t been
Addressed the corner protection that was suggested hasn’t been delivered I’ve worked with residents the police the contractor sector uh and our area has no money I don’t think it’s our area Our community’s obligation to provide access for our own basic services so please prioritize these they’re needed by our
Residents and they reflect on the council and impede the contractor doing their job thank you thank you and um councelor fish John um my statement refers to public rights of way um and the uh the fact that it has never receiv received D an SRA um public rights of way greens does
Really important work in not only in Bristol but is also linked two groups across the um uh the the neighboring counties um that are linked through the west of England Consortium um it’s also can be uh um a barrier to development because if you have a public RightWay
Going across your land and you want to build 200 blocks of flats you’re going to have a problem so it’s a very important uh it’s important work we also manage um uh things like Stoke Lodge um greens Village greens and this can take uh serious work uh involving our legal
Department and also King’s Council who were brought in for the Stoke Lodge last May um thank you so if you could just wrap up thank you I would I basically I’m making a case for it to receive at s thank you thank you and uh rather surprisingly that concludes both the
Statements and the meeting um thank you very much