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How the floating houses could have looked like opposite the SS Great Britain (Photo credit: Float8)

Floating homes on Bristol harbour would ‘blend in extremely well’

How the new scheme in east Bristol will look

New details of roads blocked for east Bristol ‘liveable neighbourhood’

The bus lanes would be introduced along the A37 Wells Road

Major route through south Bristol could get new 12-hour bus lanes

Bristol Zoo was the world’s fifth-oldest zoo.

Bristol Zoo: Plans approved for almost 200 homes despite opposition

New parking charges on the Downs are being considered in a plan to drive away van dwellers

Pay-and-display parking charges considered for The Downs in Bristol

A popular store in Knowle West will be expanded with flats also built on the site.

Popular store in South Bristol neighbourhood will be expanded

Council bosses are “not going to comment on particular figures” until November later this year

Council bosses refuse to say how many Clear Air Zone fines issued

A pocket park within a road block has also been proposed

Driving ban through parts of east Bristol in bid to make roads safer

Redcatch community garden is located on the old bowling green in Redcatch Park, Knowle (photo: Mark Taylor)

Community group shocked as council tries to hike rent by 5,000%

Hepburn Road, off Stokes Croft, has for years been known locally as ‘Crack Alley’

City planners approve new flats in Bristol’s notorious ‘Crack Alley’

The area of south Bristol earmarked for major regeneration and 2,000 new homes

Green light for South Bristol regeneration project with 2,000 homes

Capricorn Quay is the location of the proposed marina

New marina planned for Bristol harbour with space for 34 boats

Neighbours fear noisy workers at busy tip with plans to open at 6am

Bristol Waste needs to plug a £4million gap and is taking drastic action to cut costs

Tips in Avonmouth, St Philips and Hartcliffe to close two days a week

Swans swim besides the harbourside as the sun begins to rise in Bristol.

Swimmers can pay £7 an hour to take a dip in Bristol harbour

A woman looks out of the window of a First Bus in central Bristol.

‘I have to get an Uber’ - bus users share impact of cuts to services

The fate of three tall trees on the edge of a playing field in Kingswood will be decided later this week

Appeal to chop down trees - due to impact on garden vegetable patch

There are plans to build 555 on a 38-acre site in Brislington.

Plans revealed for over 500 new homes on countryside site

Patrick McAllister celebrates being elected as councillor for the Hotwells and Harbourside ward (Photo credit: Green Party)

By-election win ‘paves the way’ for Bristol’s first Green Party MP

Several other bridges in Bristol will need urgent repair once Gaol Ferry Bridge reopens.

Several bridges in need of ‘urgent repair’ after Gaol Ferry closure

Bristol City Council has approved funding for a huge youth club to be built in south Bristol by 2025.

Council approves funding for huge youth club in south Bristol

A patch of trees and shrubland near Hengrove park will be cleared to make way for between six and eight pitches.

Plans unveiled for new permanent gypsy traveller site

Empty buses lined up on Union Street.

Bristol bus passengers face extra cuts as 42 services to be axed

Voi’s e-scooter rental scheme will soon see the vehicles parked on roads instead of pavements.

Voi scooter scheme will soon see parking spaces on roads not pavements

Bristol’s first Taco Bell will serve alcohol until midnight and have its opening hours extended.

Taco Bell gets late night licence to sell alcohol until midnight

Central Library in the 1930s (Credit: Bristol Archives)

Plan to relocate Central Library scrapped after public outcry

Brislington

The countryside site at risk of development amidst builder interest

Many projects are in the pipeline for Bristol including the Temple Quarter with an enterprise zone planned around the canal near Temple Meads station

Eight major building projects in the pipeline for Bristol in 2023

Park Knowle FC is coached by Mike Alden, who on December 21 won the Unsung Hero Award at the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year

Football club left without changing rooms for three years

Bristol is the hottest property area in England and Wales, according to a new survey

Calls for Bristol rent controls as housing becomes ‘unaffordable’

Ashley Down Railway Station would be on the site of Ashley Hill Railway Station, pictured here with children from the Ashley Down Orphan Homes in the 1900s

Work to start on reopening Ashley Down railway station next year

The provision was visited in June this year.

Bradley Stoke Mama Bear’s Nursery rated inadequate

Stock image of bins left out on the road - Bristol Green Councillor Martin Fodor says he is concerned residents are concerned when collections don’t take place and bins are left lying around the pavements for extra days

‘Problem parking’ in streets blamed for missed bin collections

The River Frome at Snuff Mills

‘Urgent action needed’ to tackle untreated sewage entering River Frome

Weca could soon have more control over how Bristol’s bus services are run.

Weca takes step towards full control of region’s bus services

Furniture is being given to refugees from Afghanistan, Ukraine and elsewhere who are now living in Bristol as part of a £1.5 million scheme.

Furniture given to refugees in Bristol in £1.5m council scheme

Six cameras will be installed on dangerous Bristol roads.

Council to install cameras on six dangerous Bristol roads

Bristol’s mayor has said the Clean Air Zone could go once pollution levels fall.

Clean Air Zone could be scrapped if pollution levels fall

Renters line up outside City Hall to hand in personal testimonies about their renting experiences in Bristol

Bristol could see rent hikes capped at inflation or average wages

Unison members and councillors outside City Hall ahead of a cabinet decision on staff cuts to strategic transport and city design teams

Bristol councillors slam planned transport cuts which could cost city

A major deal has been approved paving the way for investment worth hundreds of millions into renewable energy in Bristol

City Leap deal marks ‘important step’ in Bristol’s route to net zero

This site on Bath Road, Brislington is one of two countryside sites at risk due to a Local Plan.

Local Plan puts two countryside sites on Bristol’s outskirts at risk

A long legal battle to name a police dog that bit a woman while she danced at a Halloween rave has ended. Image does not show the dog mentioned in the article

Decision made in battle to name police dog that bit woman during rave

Fire marshalls patrolling council tower blocks with flammable cladding will cost around £200,000 each week.

Council report shows eye-watering cost of fire marshal patrols

A local councillor said 24-hour bus lanes on Passage Road would cause ‘mayhem’

Re-think on 24-hour bus lane after fears of ‘gridlock’ on major route

A safe swimming spot could be piloted next year in the harbour

Safe swimming pilot in Bristol’s harbour could come in next year