{"id":471755,"date":"2025-10-03T18:45:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T18:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/471755\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T18:45:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T18:45:13","slug":"public-inquiry-into-bristols-turbo-island-village-green-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/471755\/","title":{"rendered":"Public inquiry into Bristol&#8217;s Turbo Island village green status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A small piece of land in Bristol known for being a place for social gatherings as well as attracting crime is to be the subject of a public inquiry.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Campaigners applied to Bristol City Council to protect Turbo Island in Stokes Croft as a village green, but questions were raised about whether its activities &#8211; including impromptu parties &#8211; make it qualify for the status.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Avon and Somerset Police objected the plans over the &#8220;risk posed to the local community&#8221;, while the National Grid, which has a substation there, said altering the land would &#8220;hamper&#8221; the electricity network.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council will hire a barrister to chair a two-day inquiry to explore the options for the site&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A small piece of land in Bristol known for being a place for social gatherings as well as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-471755","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\/115311720894992285","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471755","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=471755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}