Business owner prosecuted for damaging protected tree - www.bristol247.com/climate/news...
'Every breach of planning which goes unchallenged sends the message that planning rules are effectively unenforceable and this is an affront to justice.'
We have just launched our Annual Tree Giveaway 2025/26 - bristoltreeforum.org/2025/12/29/b....
Please spread the word.
In its Information Statement of October 2025 concerning its recent fencing works at Stoke Lodge Playing Fields, Cotham School has chosen to misunderstand our concerns about the welfare of the trees at Stoke Lodge Playing Fields.
Here is our response:
bristoltreeforum.org/2025/10/23/c...
Paul Wood's excellent book - Tree Hunting - 1,00 Trees to Find in Britain and Ireland's Towns and Cities has just landed - thestreettree.com/.../tree-hun...
WeI particularly appreciated this section in the Bristol Section about the tree at the sadly-now-closed Bristol Zoo Gardens site.
UK government admits almost no evidence nature protections block development
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
@bristolgreenparty.bsky.social @bristoltreeforum.bsky.social hi, why are a Green Party led council allowing 40 mature trees to be felled in BS3 today?
Our request for trees on Yew Tree Farm to be protected with a TPO has been successful - as per this Pinpoint image - maps.bristol.gov.uk/pinpoint/ - (using an old 2016 aerial image).
Here are the trees we have mapped - bristoltrees.space/Tree/sitecod...
Green Party calls on Labour to rule out building on Brislington Meadows: bristolgreenparty.org.uk/green-party-...
Thanks for your support.
However, Brislington Meadows has been an SNCI for years and has never lost its status.
We pointed this out ad nauseam before and during the appeal.
Bristol's nature is being exported to far-away rural fields before our eyes. We need to stop this.
We have submitted a question to the Environment and Sustainability Policy Committee when it meets on 29 May 2025:
bristoltreeforum.org/wp-content/u...
‘... the trees taking longer to remove than anticipated due to the strength of their roots ...’ Who’d have thought!
The trees were perfectly sound and stable and should never have been removed.
Such vainglorious folly!
www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...
Now is the time to get the Heritage Trees Bill turned into law
bills.parliament.uk/publications...
We must try t stop this happening again.
The illegal felling of the Whitewebbs Oak hashtag#whitewebbsoak
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQtp...
The illegal felling of the Whitewebbs Oak hashtag#whitewebbsoak
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQtp...
Brislington Meadows - Homes England Announcement:
Keepmoat has now been appointed as the developer for Brislington Meadows. They will now prepare a Reserved Matters planning application.
It is anticipated that work will start on-site in 2026.
High Court ruling declares farming manure as ‘waste’ in major victory for River Action in its fight against industrial-scale poultry production in Wye Valley
riveractionuk.com/high-court-r...
Fine words are not enough, @bristolcouncil.bsky.social. There needs to be action!
www.natureemergency.com/councils/bri...
@bristolgreenparty.bsky.social
@bristollibdems.bsky.social
@labourbristol.bsky.social
This is very sad and all because the previous council and small minded ass covering council officers had no imaginations for future development and reuse of a cemetery.
They could have designed like in parts of Europe or New Orleans. Instead the UK's "greenest city" destroys its last farm.
Could there be any worse news 😞
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol....
Developers Rule!
It looks like the Local plan examination hearings are going to be almost exclusively driven by developers:
www.bristol.gov.uk/residents/pl...
This is probably the most important decision to be made in the city for the next 10 years, yet the community is silent.
The grant for the Baltic Wharf development in Hotwells has been published. The s106 agreement is a disaster! They seem to have lost nearly £300K for starters - bristoltreeforum.org/wp-content/u....
We have pointed this and other issues out to the Council…but will they listen?
Part of their regular pollarding cycle, by the look of it. They should re-sprout soon.
Though bound to ask why this is necessary here, give the space and the need to have shade in this otherwise inhospitable place.
Also, the likely impact of the Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS) recently adopted by WEMCA for nature recovery in Bristol:
bristoltreeforum.org/2025/01/17/t...
Is this the fate of other cities which adopt their own LNRS?
Thanks for the shout-out.
Here is our analysis of the state of offsite biodiversity mitigation a year in:
bristoltreeforum.org/2025/01/25/r...
Also, the likely impact of the Local Nature Recovery Strategy adopted by WEMCA for nature recovery in Bristol:
bristoltreeforum.org/2025/01/17/t...
Good to see some early light cast on BNG schemes, which already look like an unfolding scandal, or likely to be shit-canned by our growth obsessed government.
If done properly could it be transformational, but it's ripe for cheating.
More useful BNG commentary at @bristoltreeforum.bsky.social
Hi. Take a look at our blog which is perhaps based on a later version of the data your article in today's Independent refers to -
bristoltreeforum.org/2025/01/25/r...
A scheme requiring developers to boost nature when they build - known as biodiversity net gain - has only delivered a fraction of expected new habitat in its first year, campaigners say
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
Now that the trees no longer can... :-(
Why? I’m completely stumped!
