A green city – where residents have to travel to leisure facilities

IREAD Mary Thomas’s recent letter in the Post and couldn’t agree more! Mayor Marvin Rees talks at any opportunity about Bristol becoming a green city with zero car emissions and yet he and his council seem determined to cover any green space in our city with flats and houses.

Here in South Bristol we have just heard that the cinema and bingo site in Hengrove has been granted planning permission for 350 houses despite opposition from some residents.

Well, those residents that even knew about a referendum!

This will eventually leave South Bristol with no leisure facilities at all once the old airfield is also covered in 1,500 houses!

Guess what, we will have to get in our cars and travel to Longwell Green or Avonmeads to watch a film, cars making more unhealthy emissions and putting more traffic on the roads of our so-called green city!

In this area we already have upwards of 400 houses being built along Airport Road, and goodness knows how many on the road from Hartcliffe roundabout towards Morrisons.

That many people moving into all those houses will need somewhere to go for leisure, pleasant walks etc and they will find nothing except concrete!

I see they also want to build on the zoo carpark in Clifton and people living near there are protesting about that.

Try living in South Bristol, an area that Mr Rees obviously does not care about.

If all this proposed building goes ahead South Bristol will have to sustain possibly 3,000 to 4,000 new homes with absolutely nothing to do, no green spaces to walk or play in and only polluted air to breathe. You can’t have it all, Mr Rees. You either want a green healthy city or you want thousands of new homes.

Please stop and think what you’re doing to our wonderful city.

Lin Dyer Whitchurch