broadmead expansion, no drinking zones, cctv and gentrification in bristol

[Isambard]

A pub I used to drink in quite a bit had a twitching paranoia about letting you take your drinks outside onto the pavement cos it wasn't covered by their licence and the police hassled them. The very snooty posh cockatail lounge kind of place next door (we're being gentrified) constantly had rah-rahs doing their G+Ts out on the pavement and they never got any hassle.

 

[J77]

Broadmead expansion

See they're well into expanding Broadmead to the other side of the road.

The House of Fraser they're building is apparently going to be their flagship store. I also heard a rumour that it was meant to be Selfridges but they pulled out.

Are there any artists impressions on the web? Are they building a bridge over the road, towards the motorway?

Anyway, I just thought I'd resurrect this thread as stuff is happening.

 

[bristol_citizen]

Are there any artists impressions on the web? Are they building a bridge over the road, towards the motorway?

Here you go:

Plenty more here.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Here you go:

you sure that's not the bus station/harbourside/tramlink/western approach/filton-abbeywood/bristol arena* picture?

*delete as applicable

 

[munkeeunit]

It reminds me of when I went to the V festival in the year 2000. It was much like a musical prison. I figured it would be corporate, but I was shocked.

They were searching everyone on the way in, confiscating their booze and chucking it in big skips. The vandalising of people's property can not have been legal, but as people wanted to get in, they tolerated it, or I think maybe were just too shocked at what had happened for it to immediately register.

I didn't have a personal stash of booze myself, not because I thought it'd be destroyed, but because I didn't think the only booze on offer would be blatantly watered down carling at £3 per pint.

Welcome to the City Centre:

'The Corporate Musical Open Prison'

 

[JTG]

They've shut the car park in front of the Tollgate multi storey where the baths used to be. Added five minutes onto my walk to work in the morning

What's the point of all this anyway?

 

[fat hamster]

What's the point of all this anyway?

To make us ever more dependent on consumer culture...