2011 on Stokes Croft – the people’s supermarket, freeshop, community kitchen, the foodstore, the No Tesco campaign and more are profiled in this 30 minute documentary.
You can catch it on BBC iPlayer until 26 December. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b018jk2l/Inside_Out_West_19_12_2011/
A great day yesterday with loads of people voting on the Vision for the Carriageworks.
If you missed us come and find us today from 1 to 3pm at the Peoples Republic on Jamaica Street. Or have your say online.
Stop by and say what you think about the new vision for the Carriageworks. Stokes croft today until 3pm. Tomorrow 1-3 at Peoples Republic Stokes croft.
Since the end of the consultation in October, the Carriageworks Action Group has been analysing the results and developing a draft Vision for the site. We now want to know what you think of the Vision and whether you support it.
You can go to the Vision page to find out more and then give us your thoughts in the online survey.
Or you can come to one of the drop-in events this weekend.
Saturday 3 December 11am to 3pm at the Salvation Army, Ashley Road
Sunday 4 December 1pm to 3pm at the Peoples Republic of Stokes Croft, Jamaica St
We’ll be there to answer your questions and you’ll be able to give your opinion on the Vision.
In October we interviewed people on Stokes Croft to find out what they think should happen to the Carriageworks site. Here’s what they said.
At last night’s Stakeholder Group a vision discussion paper setting out how the Carriageworks site could be developed was unanimously supported as the basis for further consultation.
The task now is to work out some precise questions to use at the next phase of public consultation online from 1-7 December and at drop-ins on Saturday 3 December (at the Salvation Army, Ashley Rd, 11am-3pm) and Sunday 4 December (at PRSC, Jamaica St 1-3pm).
We had an amazing 1460 responses to the survey, plus a load of emails as well – so a big thank you to everyone who replied.
The full survey response can be found in the docs section.
We found out that 55% of respondents had a local postcode, that nearly 60% of respondents pass through the area, 45% spend leisure time locally, and 44% shop locally. 19% of respondents work locally.
The headlines of what you said are:
75% of you would like to see community uses on the site, and 66% would like to see arts facilities. Residential, shops and leisure uses are wanted by about half of you. 38% of you want to see business uses on the site.
51% of you want the development to be lead by a community. One third of you say it doesn’t matter who leads, so long as development takes place.
We also had many additional comments totalling nearly 100 pages. These are available in the docs section.
