Eligible Bristol residents will begin receiving a £150 council tax rebate in the coming weeks. This forms part of the government’s initiative to help households with rising energy costs. The scheme provides the one-off payment to most households in council tax bands A to D.
Plans have emerged to build a residential estate of over 500 homes and a community centre on green belt land next to Brislington’s Park and Ride.
Developers Bellway want an agreement that an Environmental Impact Assessment is not required ahead of the full submission of its plans, claiming the estate is ‘unlikely to have significant effects on the environment’.
And Bristolians have voted against having a directly-elected mayor to run the city. The referendum saw over 56,000 people vote to scrap the current mayoral model, while nearly 38 and a half thousands voted to have an elected mayor.
