Cotham Forum and Sainsburys meeting

It's a double bill of public meetings this coming Thursday 26th May!

• The Cotham Forum is at 7pm at the Tyndale Baptist Church Hall on Whiteladies Road (around the Imperial Road side). Anthony will be chairing this one and the 'theme' for the meeting will be parking and parking enforcement. For more information about the Forum, see the Bishopston, Cotham and Redland Neighbourhood Partnership website. It's an open meeting and all are welcome to come along.
• Sustainable Redland have organised a meeting to discuss the plans for a new Sainsburys supermarket to open in the old Woolworths on Blackboy Hill. The meeting is at 7.30pm at the Redland Park URC Church (junction of Redland Park and Whiteladies Road). I'll be going along to this one to talk about planning law and what can and can't be done to stop the spread of supermarkets along our high streets. Again, it's an open meeting.

On the latter topic, Sainsburys are apparently going to be writing to local people to outline their plans. As the building is already designated for retail use, they do not need planning permission, though they may need permission for signage or any other external changes that they might want to make. I also understand that they have also applied for an off licence, but I haven't seen the details yet - they should be available next week.