09/09/2026
FINAL DEADLINE FOR YOUR STATEMENTS IS NOON TODAY!
Last November this wonderful community submitted a record breaking amount of statements supporting funding for St George Playpark and wheel park!
📣 We need you to do it again!
After years of fighting to replace our crumbling play equipment, £680,000 was allocated for major improvements to St George Park. So we should have been seeing the final pieces of play equipment going in around about now and plans for the wheel/skate park progressing nicely too. Sadly, Wessex Water threw a curveball shortly after the funding announcement. Turns out they plan to do major work affecting the area around the wheel park, and potentially the basketball court too. This raises some big questions about what happens to the funding already secured and, sadly, has delayed progress to both areas massively.
We remain hopeful that the funding is protected, but we’re still waiting for firm answers. Meanwhile, the wheel park could potentially be out of action for a good few years, with another important question hanging over the future of the basketball court.
So we need the community to speak up again. If you care about the future of the playground, wheel park and/or basketball court, or are concerned about St George Park losing out on any of the investment already agreed, please consider submitting a statement via the council's webform (the deadline for questions has passed): www.bristol.gov.uk/publicforum
We're sharing a how to video as part of this post, but the committee to select is the Public Health and Communities Committee.
There is understandably a lot of strong feeling about this, so it’s important the council hears directly from our community.
Statements are needed by 12 today and the meeting is on Friday at 9.30am
Here’s the official information on how to have your say: 👇
𝐆𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐬𝐤 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐭 𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐤!
The £800,000 funding provided by Wessex Water/YTL to Bristol City Council as (partial) compensation and mitigation for their proposed storm overflow works under St George Park wheel park is proposed to be accepted by the council at the next meeting of the Public Health & Communities policy committee on Friday 11th September, beginning at 9.30am. You can view the specifics on the link provided.
As a reminder, this £800,000 will be split between three parks, so St George Park will receive between £250,000 and £300,000. This funding is likely to be used wholly to complete Phase 2 of the play park works. I am still waiting on confirmation of when the swing set (already funded through Area Committee CIL) will be installed in the play park.
If you would like to ask questions or make a statement at the council meeting on Friday 11th September (9.30am), here's how to do that and the submission deadlines.
𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒
Deadline: 5.00 pm on Monday 7th September 2026
• Any individual can submit up to 3 written questions.
• Written replies to questions will be available on the Council’s website at least one hour before the meeting.
• At the meeting, questioners will be permitted to ask up to 2 oral supplementary questions.
𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒
Public Statements should be submitted via our webform: www.bristol.gov.uk/publicforum
Please email petition details to [email protected]
Deadline (for both): 12.00 noon on Wednesday 9th September 2026.
• No more than 1,000 words in length
• Circulated to all committee members
• Published on the Council’s website at least one hour before the meeting.
• At the meeting, individuals presenting petitions may be required to read out the objectives of the petition, and individuals may be given 1 minute to speak to their statement
Public forum statements and questions are published on the council’s website on the meeting's agenda. They will include your name and can be viewed on the calendar of meetings..
