{"id":695321,"date":"2026-01-14T12:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T12:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/695321\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T12:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T12:06:10","slug":"bristol-van-dwellers-to-be-moved-on-from-fishponds-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/695321\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol van dwellers to be moved on from Fishponds street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">An encampment of van dwellers on a city street are to be moved on after complaints from residents about fires, fly-tipping and anti-social behaviour.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People living close to Goodneston Road in Fishponds, Bristol, claim drug-dealing and criminal damage is commonplace and human waste has been left in the road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bristol City Council has now deemed the site, which has around 20 vans, to be &#8220;seriously impacting the local community and environment&#8221; and said it would begin enforcement action from 19 January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One van dweller said he was &#8220;nervous&#8221; about the council&#8217;s plan, fearing it will cost him his job in the city, and one resident added &#8220;moving people on without solutions doesn&#8217;t really help&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An encampment of van dwellers on a city street are to be moved on after complaints from residents&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-695321","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\/115893370089876438","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695321","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=695321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}