Tesco Move Fast… Hoardings already going up. Don’t Forget: Public Meeting at Hamilton House 7pm Monday 8th Feb.
These hoardings went up on Saturday. They were installed by a crew of workers who came from London to do the work. One of them commented that he kept hearing local people complaining about the prospective arrival of Tesco in the Croft.
It will be essential to organise a coherent, innovative campaign if we are to
MESSAGE from EUDAIMON, the only local option of the three submitted designs for the Corner Site…
Stokes Croft at a critical juncture. Affirmative Action Required
Along with the power we have in collectively in saying what we don’t want we must also use that force to affirm what we want. Clearly the community here in Stokes Croft & beyond are inflamed by the possible encroachment of Tescos at the old Jesters site. We must demand our rights to much greater levels of local decision making & democracy.
There are also possible developments at the other end of Stokes Croft – on the corner site of City Road/Stokes Croft. Bristol City Council are holding a public vote which decides which of 3 designs will be commissioned with money from the public purse. There is only one local design team left in the process. That being us, Eudaimon, who are based at Coexist in Hamilton House.
We are holding a warm-up meeting before the Tescos meeting at the same space for anyone with stamina for two meetings in one day:
Welcome at 6pm for 6:10pm start – Monday 8th Feb at The Event Space, Hamilton House (above The Canteen)
This meeting is specifically to raise awareness of our design proposal for those who live and work in the area & to express the deeper ideas behind our design. A design that centres on working within the community to create a space for the community. We have worked very closely in the design process with local people & organisations and for that there is great potential in our design for ongoing local input & ideas.
The is critical to ensuring that Stokes Croft continues to develop positively along local lines.
It is a rare opportunity for us to use local democracy to let the Council know how we want the area to develop. We can use a strong majority to express positive protest at Tescos & BCC.
Vote at NICHE FRAMES or at the ARCHITECTURE CENTRE 10th-22nd FEBRUARY
We will be speaking at the formal presentation along with the other design-teams. This will be an altogether more formal affair. But it is an opportunity for anyone to ask questions to the other design teams before they head back to London or offer support! All welcome.
6-8pm Tuesday 9th Feb at Broadmead Baptist Church
Thank you for reading & please come to any of the meetings or votes in the next few days. Viva la renaissance de Stokes Croft!
Robert & Jak
Eudaimon @ Coexist,
Hamilton House
Any Queries: info@project-eudaimon.eu
Reminder of Events
1. 6pm Mon 8th Event Space, Hamilton House
2. 6-8pm Tues 9th Broadmead Baptist Church
3. 10th-22nd Voting at Niche Frames & Architecture Centre
We believe that it is important to document the unique vibrancy of life in Stokes Croft, and will continue to produce short videos that attempt to highlight local events and local issues.
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Stokes Croft China launched at the end of November. Using China Ware from the defunct factories of Staffordshire, and lithographic prints salvaged from Staffordshire’s largest independent decorating factory, local artists and members of the community came together to produce an aesthetic that is uniquely local. Thanks to brisk sales, great support from local people, the prospects for SCC to become a fully fledged local business have never looked rosier. The idea is that any profits will go towards financing the growth of Stokes Croft as a cultural quarter. We are currently negotiating to take on local premises. Watch this space…
SCC is working currently using a Studio Decorator system, each piece of work carrying the backstamp of the artist. Current artists are, Sammy Hallett, Liz Krcma, SoHo, Peta Berry, Jen Howard-Coles and Chris Chalkley. Plans are afoot to expand production to include Limited Edition runs of the work of local graffiti artists.
The work of Liz Krcma (Above). Unfortunately, Liz suffered a stroke in January, and is currently in hospital making a good recovery.
The work of Soho (Above), displayed in a former Royal Worcester display unit.
The work of Sammy Hallett (Above).
The figurine (Above) by SoHo was stolen from the shop window during the week before Christmas. It is unique. It is a Spode figurine, decorated in SCC style. The lady carries a small PRSC flag in her hand. If you have seen it on somebody’s mantelpiece, please arrange its return… There is no question of police involvement.
Police work with shopkeepers to amend licences to forbid retail of high strength lagers and cider.
Stokes Croft local beat officers have brokered an apparently voluntary agreement with the six independent retailers of alcohol in Stokes Croft to ban sales of beers and cider with an alcoholic content of more than 6%. The idea is to banish drinks such as White Ace Cider, whose primary selling point is to deliver the most alcohol for the cheapest price, from the Croft.
Mike , Tony and a.n.other with white Ace and Banksy… Tony’s internal organs are disintegrating. Currently, he defecates through a tube which exits through his stomach.
This will obviously have a direct effect on the street drinkers… Local retailers have agreed to trial this scheme, but are concerned that the ban will do nothing more than divert trade to shops on Ashley Road and a little further afield. It is understood that the Police intend to extend the change in licensing conditions more widely with the shortest delay, so that local traders do not suffer loss of business to other shops just outside Stokes Croft. Interestingly, Dragon Stout with an ABV of 7.5% will not be included in the ban, as a concession to the West Indian community.
Bristol City Council Fails in Bid to Serve Discontinuance Notice on Billboard on Turbo Island.
Turbo Island during its last Community- led makeover, Feb. 2009
Below, the Inspector’s judgement. Particularly illuminating are Paragraphs 11 and 12, of which a small excerpt is quoted below:
The (Hoarding is not) preventing regeneration of the wider area or the immediate site, and indeed it may have some beneficial impacts in reducing the amount of graffiti. Consequently, the appeal should be upheld and the Discontinuance Notice quashed.
The gulf in understanding between the People of Stokes Croft and those whose decisions have a direct impact on our future, remains huge…
The Invisible Circus invites you to the “St Valentines Massaquerade Ball” on Friday, February 12 at 8:00.pm.
Friday, February 12 at 8:00pm End Time: Sunday, February 14 at 8:00pm
At The Island, Silver Street, Bristol
To see more details and RSVP, follow the link below:
http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=295113225975&mid=1d6e099G2bc43496G3e2e133G7
Introducing The Wonder Club’s new show.
We welcome you to Stokes Croft, 1836.
(We love you.)
We welcome you to the St James Fair.
(We lied.)
For 500 years there was a fair, St James Fair, that plagued our city of Bristol with wealth and culture. It was a place for trading, entertainments, menageries, performers, thieves, pirates and ‘all kinds of sex for sale’. The moralists and council of the age wanted to close the fair down, but due to the profound income generated by the 14 day fair their case was never carried.
Until this year, 1836 and this Lamentable Tragedy.
The Wonder Club invite you to an extraordinary site specific performance. We make exciting interactive promenade theatre, bringing to life installation art from some of Bristol’s leading artists we merge theatre, music and performance art tied together by a narrative that allows you, the audience to find, play with and gossip about.
Come and play.
Wander freely.
Make your own stories.
Be part of your history.
Feb 11, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28
Tickets £10/ £6 Concessions
Box Office – www.tobaccofactory.com tel:01179020344
Please buy your tickets early, we have limited numbers for each performance.
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0777 303 8570
Music Manager
The Canteen, Stokes Croft
www.coexistuk.org
TESCO IN STOKES CROFT: Public Meeting at 7pm on 8th February Hamilton House. Agenda: To organise a co-ordinated response.
Tesco is worryingly close to setting up shop on Stokes Croft – at the old Jesters.
Please come to a public meeting at 7pm on Monday 8 Feb at Hamilton House’s Events Space to find out how to help prevent this and explore what the community does want. Even if you do not live in or near Stokes Croft – please do come along to show your support for the need for Bristol City Council to support, not wipe out local communities. Your community could be next!
Bristol City Council have already granted Change of Use planning permission on the basis that they consulted the local community by:
1) Sending letters to 55 neighbouring residents (and received zero responses)
2) Sticking one A4 notification on a nearby lampost stipulating that Change of Use had been applied for (by an outside contractor)
3) Publishing one line at the back of the Evening Post under Statutory Notifications
This is an absolute outrage…
Apparently this does adhere to the legal requirements for consultation for planning permission. However, we still have the opportunity to challenge it and we are looking into this (boring ourselves silly with planning policy) to see on what grounds we can fight it.
This is our community and collectively we have the power to stop this.
This is a fight Tescos will not win – as long as ALL OF US get together and show our collective might.
Please do come along your voice is immensely important …
If you are in any doubt as to who Tesco are, and how they operate, watch this Dispatches documentary.
The Mirror ran this on Saturday, 30th January.
Even the Sun is picking up on public antipathy toward Tesco’s attitude toward the public.
Designs for Stokes Croft/City Road Junction Revealed on 9th Feb. We must make sure we get the vote out…
Bristol City Council will present the three short-listed designs for The City Road/ Stokes Croft Corner Site.
There is one local design of the three choices. All will be revealed at the Public Meeting at Broadmead Baptist Church at 6pm on Tuesday 9th February.
Anyone can vote, either at the Architecture Centre on Narrow Quay or at Niche Frames on Stokes Croft.
It is essential to vote, if you want to have a say about what happens on Stokes Croft.
If you would like to help to get people to vote, then please
contact us at Vote@prsc.org.uk
