{"id":291138,"date":"2025-07-25T17:24:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T17:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/291138\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T17:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T17:24:13","slug":"stoke-lodge-campaigner-pays-cotham-school-85k-in-legal-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/291138\/","title":{"rendered":"Stoke Lodge campaigner pays Cotham School \u00a385k in legal fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mrs Welham said the Village Green application was made with &#8220;the objective of ensuring that all parties, including the school, could go on sharing the land as they have done for decades&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But she added she hopes the money paid will &#8220;mitigate any detriment to Cotham School pupils&#8221; due to the legal actions that were paid for out of the school&#8217;s reserves. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement following the decision on legal bills, Cotham School said: &#8220;We welcome the recovery of public funds that were necessarily expended in protecting the school&#8217;s playing field.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We Love Stoke Lodge said it now intends to apply to the Court of Appeal for permission to appeal the recent High Court decision and that it has until mid-September to do this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bristol City Council has previously declined to comment on the legal bills but said it would be complying with the court order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mrs Welham said the Village Green application was made with &#8220;the objective of ensuring that all parties, including&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-291138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114915041028970777","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}