Bristol City Council deliberately ignored bid to install Black Lives Matter statue on Colston plinth
Top planning officer says it was done so the new history commission could consider all the issues
17:23, 30 APR 2021
Updated
The statue was erected in the early hours of this morning on July 15, 2020 (Image: Ben Birchall/PA Wire)
A bid to install a sculpture of a Black Lives Matter protester on the Colston Statue plinth was deliberately ignored, Bristol City Council’s top planner has revealed.
A government inspector will rule whether the life-sized depiction of Jen Reid can sit for two years atop the empty base where slave trader Edward Colston’s monument was pulled down last summer, after an appeal was lodged on the grounds of “non-determination”.