Who s in and who s out after the Bristol City Council elections
Here s our comprehensive, ward-by-ward round-up of faces old and new in the chamber after the Green surge transformed City Hall
17:00, 20 MAY 2021
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This month’s local elections have brought a huge shake-up at Bristol City Council.
When city councillors gather for their first full meeting since the elections more than half of the faces on the City Hall benches are new.
Labour loses overall control of Bristol council after Green surge
Both groups now have 24 councillors
Updated
Kye Dudd (pictured in focus second from the right) was the second cabinet member to lose his seat. (Image: BristolLive)
Labour has lost overall control of Bristol City Council as the “Green surge” saw the party’s new main rivals more than double their seats.
Both groups now have 24 councillors, with Labour losing nine members at the local elections, which were declared on Sunday (May 9), and the Greens gaining 13, while the Conservatives remained on 14 and the Lib Dems lost one to leave them on eight.
Another greedy green
Looks like yet another Green Party councillor’s PUBLIC pronouncements on housing don’t quite match his PRIVATE arrangements.
An irate ACORN tenants union member calls to tell us that the Green Party Councillor for Southville, Bristol Pound bigwig and er, ACORN tenants union member Stephen “Daddy” Clarke, has
EVICTED a tenant from one of his numerous local buy-to-let investments after the tenant told him that his rent increase of 28 per cent was unaffordable!
The evicted tenant had been sharing with Daddy Clarke’s daughter, Katie “Snowflake” Finnegan-Clarke, a self-styled ‘
SOCIAL JUSTICE CONSULTANT‘ who’s main contribution to progressive causes is ‘being around when the media arrive’ we’re told. Snowflake originally advertised daddy’s house as “
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The next major development in Bedminster could be the transformation of St Catherine’s Place on East Street.
Scaled-back plans have now been approved for 180 homes, fewer shops and no cinema, despite continued concerns from dozens of residents and councillors’ own reticence over a number of aspects of the plan.
The new plans mean the tallest residential block is now 14 storeys instead of 17 storeys, but there is no affordable housing promised any more.
“East Street is slowly having its weird, unique character stripped away,” says Charlie Revelle-Smith, author of Weird Bristol. – photo: Martin Booth
Stretching from Ashton Vale Trading Estate in the south, to the Cumberland Basin in the north, Bedminster ward covers a large amount of the BS3 area.
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