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Rob Bryher
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📍Bristol, England / 🌿 Green councillor for St George West on Bristol City Council // 🏢 Chair of Development Control Committee A // 🚋 Member of Transport & Connectivity Policy Committee // 🛣 Urban/transport planner // 🌍 Climate campaigner // he/him
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Superlative closing paragraph!

It’s true that decent proposals for well-designed new homes are sometimes knocked back over ludicrous planning objections. But it’s also true that many proposed developments are simply not good enough – lacking social infrastructure or genuinely affordable housing – and are rightly resisted by nearby communities. The mature approach to achieving genuinely aspirational urban change is not to adopt uncritical blanket positions for or against development of any kind, but to weigh each project on its actual merits. That’s not yimbyism or nimbyism – it’s just common sense.

Phineas Harper is a writer and curator
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I'm bringing the below motion about the #GazaGenocide#FreePalestine

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I am also technically in the book!

Me grinning while pointing at my picture in the book while seated waiting for a book launch event to start in Waterstones Bristol.
A red arrow points to a very blurry picture of  me cycling within a Kidical Mass bike ride in Bristol city centre.
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It was interesting to be at the launch tonight of Our City: Community Activism in Bristol edited by Suzanne Audrey. Lots of stories about how citizens are taking on the planning system and in some cases winning!

Front page of the book Our City: Community Activism in Bristol edited by Suzanne Audrey with a panoramic photo of Bristol.
Contents page of the book Our City: Community Activism in Bristol edited by Suzanne Audrey. Sections include: Promoting Inclusion and Community Campaigning.
Contents page of the book Our City: Community Activism in Bristol edited by Suzanne Audrey. Sections include: City Planning and In Conclusion.
Back page of the book Our City: Community Activism in Bristol edited by Suzanne Audrey.
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True

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This is the view entering Bristol city centre from the east. The building still looks like the top hasn't been finished. I wish we had a good, lower building right here that says something about how great east Bristol is. But no, because Marvin wanted to build bigly not smartly.

A photo from the top deck of a bus looking out of the front of Old Market Street and the monstrous Castle Park View building.
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I am told Saturday morning at the latest!

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Today it is the UK's turn to experience serious flooding due to intense rainfall. A reminder that UK rainfall intensity has increased markedly over the past 60+ years. All consistent with the physics of a warming atmosphere which is now more humid.

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At Full Council last week I put my Green child poverty motion. As a survivor this isn’t a game for me. I called for an end to the two-child benefit cap and free school meals for all. I wouldn’t have made it here under the cap. Labour called it a hand-out and voted it down. youtu.be/qrHMPxL1efw?...

Newham Greens Councillor Nate Higgins proposes motion to Fight Child Poverty in Newham
Newham Greens Councillor Nate Higgins proposes motion to Fight Child Poverty in Newham

YouTube video by Nate Higgins

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Rob Bryher
@robbryher.bsky.social
📍Bristol, England / 🌿 Green councillor for St George West on Bristol City Council // 🏢 Chair of Development Control Committee A // 🚋 Member of Transport & Connectivity Policy Committee // 🛣 Urban/transport planner // 🌍 Climate campaigner // he/him
611 followers1.6k following185 posts