CREDO

We believe that Stokes Croft has been criminally and deliberately neglected by Government;
that local government has treated Stokes Croft as the sink, the sewer of the City.
Poor Government has been complicit in its decline, and in the problems that currently face us,
the area receiving treatment that would not have been tolerated elsewhere in the City.

Despite, and perhaps because of, times of great adversity that were not visited equally upon all areas of the City,
a culture has evolved here in Stokes Croft that is strong, beautiful and vibrant.

PRSC is committed to safeguarding and nurturing this freedom of spirit.

We do not accept that top-down dictatorial government is the only possibility for decision-making in Society,
nor that the rule of the State is the only possible way for people to organise themselves.

A State that often favours the interests of those who are direct beneficiaries of Financial Institutions,
and continues to favour the interests of excessively powerful Corporations over the interests of the Local Community
whom they were elected to serve, is necessarily suspect:
We must suspect the motives of Government, we must challenge decisions that are visited upon us from afar.

The City of Bristol has chosen over the last years to heed the Corporate Sector,
to the extent that a retail area has been created in the Heart of our City where
Private Corporations decide how we must behave in the Public Space of our own City.

We must develop a vision for a future, a future of our own making.
We must cherish and encourage the spirit of
tolerance, acceptance, experimentation and otherness
that flourishes here.

We are committed to the shining star that is Stokes Croft.

February 2011

IN 1946 THE PLANNERS HAD TO DECIDE WHETHER TO DEMOLISH MANY BUILDINGS

AND BUILD BROADMEAD SHOPPING CENTRE IN THE HEART OF THE CITY.

416 PEOPLE VOTED FOR THE NEW DEVELOPMENT.

13,363 PEOPLE VOTED AGAINST.

THE COUNCIL OF THE DAY GAVE PERMISSION TO THE DEVELOPERS.

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IN MARCH 2010, ACCORDING TO SURVEY, 93% OF LOCAL PEOPLE WANTED NO TESCO IN STOKES CROFT.

MORE THAN 2500 LETTERS OF PROTEST WERE DELIVERED TO BRISTOL CITY COUNCIL.

DESPITE VOCAL AND SUSTAINED NEAR UNANIMOUS LOCAL OPPOSITION,

BRISTOL CITY COUNCIL GAVE PERMISSION FOR TESCO TO OPEN IN STOKES CROFT DEC. 2010

Update

September 2007