Of course, within 48 hours of me publishing a video moaning that there are no plans for new New Cut cycle bridges, the council make a statement suggesting the Camden Road bridge plans could be revived. Hello to everyone ending up here from googling that news story, please accept my apologies that owing to my lack of time machine, this video is outdated before you even watch it :D
If I was you PD I'd be inclined to take some credit for this happening so quickly after your efforts to awake us to the situation..... a lot of little bricks make for a powerful (5s) wall 8¬)
I led both the Langton Street Bridge and Camden Road bridge schemes in 2014. The former wasn't cancelled because of costs. We weren't able to get that far since City Design, one of the internal consultees during the planning process objected to the application for the new bridge to sit alongside the old. Since the Council didn't want to and couldn't legally object to its own proposal in public, we had to withdraw the application. There have been calls for the design to be reused, perhaps opposite Whitehouse Street, but they didn't materialise either. Also, folklore has it that the bridge was painted yellow without permission to reflect the nickname...
thanks for the correction and further info! I'm slightly annoyed with myself as initial draft said something like "I couldnt find a definite reason for the withdrawal but I assume it was lack of money like the camden road one was" but it seemed overly verbose and nitpicky and 'surely that was the reason'...note to self, never "surely" anything
I love these videos and I know absolutely nothing about urban planning and architecture etc! Your writing and presentation style is brilliant. So relaxing and interesting. I was chatting to a friend in Liverpool and mentioned this channel and he said he loves it! Which is a testament to how good they are that someone who doesn't even live in Bristol would find it intriguing. Thanks so much for making them.
this is probably a good moment to (re)emphasise I have zero background in urban planning or architecture either :) I guess living in a city such topics are inherently everybody's business to an extent, hence I chuck out my tuppenceworth, but never wish to imply I am qualified/expert! thanks for your kind words
Thanks, and don't worry you do a thorough job of disclaimer-ing! But your RUclips videos are brilliant and very well researched imho :)@@PedestrianDiversions
I used the footbridge to get to the Swimming Baths opposite there. Growing up in Bedminster, Redcliffe Hill had the most amazing shops! A Fag*** and Pie shop in what was a very ancient frontage, Pets Paradise, wonderful to explore, a proper Milliners, Florence, a Tobacconist, a pub with a children’s room at the back. There was real character there. Couldn’t post unless I edited the culinary item! I lived in the Mead Street area, and it was a thriving community.
The fact that mine isn't the first comment about it proves that yours is exactly the audience who would want to watch 40 mins of nondescript industrial estate, and listen to you talk about it! It doesn't matter how long the gaps between your videos are, they are always a delight.
Goal Ferry Bridge reopened yesterday to the delight of Bedminster-Centre commuters such as myself. Although cant help feel it would have been better to replace the bridge altogether with something wider/more beautiful. Maybe a new bridge wouldn't have taken a year to install. Always liked the appearance of the banana bridge but its been many a year since i last actually crossed it.
Put me in charge ten years ago and give me a squillion quid, I'd have built the camden road one shown in this video AND put a big wide bridge from st johns road (asda carpark corner) over to somewhere near the louisiana, both PRIOR to revamping gaol ferry. but it's amazing to have it back at least
'...no one wants to watch nondescript video of an industrial estate...' ...you underestimate some of your audience 😅 whichever poor sod from the NSA gets tasked with monitoring my web traffic is earning their paycheck
Well done, again. You have lined up the nails with the hammer and applied the right directional force toward inefficient political and planning thought. You may not actually redirect the past or present actions of the faceless and apparently unaccountable politicians or bureaucrats making short-term decisions with long term effects for society and citizens. But keep up the effort!
Cheers for this, another excellent video. I know it's nothing to do with you, but when I watched, the "ad break" after your line about Gaol Ferry Bridge taking so long cut to an ad with Homer Simpson fumbling to build a barbecue using French instructions. Perfect serendipity!
Walked over this earlier today. I usually do cross it on my way to Bedminster because York Road is an overall nicer street than Clarence Road. Even the modern infill on York Road is more sympathetic. I'm looking forward to the development on the Bart Spices site. I think increased activity around this area could only be a good thing.
As a creator who started out with a video a week, then revised down to once a fortnight, then once a month... and now perhaps once or twice a year, if you're lucky... I fully understand, but I'm very happy to see a new one of yours about our fine city when they do appear! This red-flag waving lefty also wonders where all the public money goes to fund these things, it's almost as if it somehow ends up in the wrong places, greasing palms or getting familiar with the inside of brown paper envelopes (or being spent on 'feasibility studies').
Thanks PD another huge reminder of my youth 8¬) .... like one of your other reviewers I used the bridge to cross from Victoria Park via St Lukes Road to get to the Mayor's Paddock swimming baths (where I learned to swm in the 50's) The building was too narrow for a surrounding walk way so relied on a narrow cantilevered platform on each side to get to the far end.... so it was always an extra incentive to swim back to safety from the deep end! A favourite game prior to Guy Fawkes night was to buy as many 'mighty atom' bangers as we could afford ( a penny ha'penny each) at the nearby sweet shop in St Lukes Road, then strap a few (often 5) together, light the blue touch paper... count to 4 and then cast the bundle from the middle of the bridge hoping for an explosion as they hit the water..... Not recommended these days! We never knew it as 'banana' bridge back then due to it being more battleship grey with rust detailing. Once again A BIG THANK YOU!!!
one of the big unexpected pleasures of starting this channel has been provoking comments with these sort of memories. I dare say they are more valuable then the videos themselves, as the latter are generally a simple repackaging of info anybody could find on google, whereas these little snapshots of everyday life would perhaps otherwise not be online. so thank *you*!
You are so welcome 'PD' - I know I'm not alone in saying you inspire us to recall these silly facts and stories from our lives and I for one am delighted to share them where they relate to your chosen subject. More power to your elbow! @@PedestrianDiversions
p.s. it is a sad reflection on current 'times' that a simple old fashioned 'meatball' cannot be named on this platform. My parents used to take me to the fast food outlet your other 'loved' respondent MJM BS3 mentioned, and tell me how they enjoyed such a meal during the WW2 Bristol blitz years.
@@trainandbikefanThese algorillas are takin the Pie n Mash / ρι55. Yes, grammarians, wot I done with the oblique by its other name there was indeed intentional.
This is probably tooooo much information but..... Harford Bridge was named after the Bristol banking family who owned (amongst other homes) Blaise Castle estate now a brilliant open space for all to use - also known to and mentioned by Jane Austen. The Harfords were deeply involved in the development of Ebbw Vale and I believe fairly philanthropic in their methods, as was another member of the family who lived in a mansion called Falcondale (now an hotel) he commissioned in Lampeter, Mid Wales. Not coincidentaly, Falcondale Road skirts Westbury on Trym from which one ajoining road is Lampeter Road. He led a campaign for a railway link between the once Manchester and Milford (Haven) railway station in Lampeter and Aberaeron (Aberayron on old GWR mapping) - Now, like so many other branch lines, providing a beautiful foot & cycle path alongside the river(afon) Aeron...... I said this might be a bit too much of a diversion 8¬)
Facinating and bizarre indeed that later development to both, north and south connections ignore this structure! It's position now answered, thank-you 😇 it is clearly a bridge waiting for a reason to be there. One wonders 'when' it was painted so, as it is clearly screaming 'I'M HERE, INCORPORATE ME PROPERLY WITH MY SURROUNDINGS PLEASE! (Yes, Safely!) The cut is a menacing channel is it not, akin to a twice daily 'Bristol flushing system' I wonder what uses this facility has been put to over the years! both intended or not 😑 I would love to see the footage of the south area to the railay as I am quite familiar with it at Spring street where HBH is currently based and a temporary school is being built bizarrely! Planners have a duty (I think anyway) to improve where possible and, yes, bring existing infrastructure, like our friend here, back into sensible and creative use!
tbh most of the better shots ended up in this, i suspect if i ever do do a full vid about the mead street/whitehouse st/bedminster green regen it will be in a few years when they've built enough of it to do some before/after comparisons. if i'm still around by then...for a city with a housing crisis it seems to take awfully long for anything to actually get built. i think factory no1 was under construction when i moved here 7 years ago and still isnt done
A great video! Always found this my favourite bridge but it is a shame its undermined by the lack of accesiblilty and ineffiecent connectivity to the area. On a side note have you thought at all of making a video on the history of Bristol's council flats? They are facing all sorts of issues with the Barton House evacuation and others lacking proper insulation, but it would be interesting to know more about how they came about in that post war era.
Google has decided to make me (and everyone else, as far as i can tell) Log in everytime we want to comment on your videos. (Always good, by the way). So feel honoured!
always felt like the banana bridge was the only interesting thing in a sea of nothingness, at least going out of the school to the north there's a takeaway or 2, just felt barren leaving through the south exit
We can wait oh ranter _par excellence!_ but I beg to aver that you sir are too self-effacing. Your output speaks for itself, speaks highly, speaks volumes. When you run out of Bristol bridges, can you hop on a canal boat along the K&A and sort out H'smiff bridge please? Inaction, restrictions, complete closure, open to buses, absolutely complete closure this time, yes aren't we clever, oh sxxx where do all these people get across, err, reopening to peds - heavily policed (you get told off if you dare cross it in the wrong direction on the wrong side!) and the occasional random welding spark from behind the little pockets of scaffolding, once in a supermoon. I'm sure it's not easy but all this dithering over bridges... is it to do with short term mayors in both cities, I wonder?
Listen fella, if we were to spend taxpayers money on amenities for, you know, taxpayers, how would our politicians be able to line their own pockets and those of blokes they met down the pub that promise they definitely know how to procure PPE, honest guv. My god, the naivety of some people.
part of me wants to make a big ranty video about the absence of metro and my (shared) suspicion that nothing will get built in future either, if only for the cynical reason that it would probably get a lot of views and make a few quid... part of me doesnt want to be a ranter and is more comfortable rambling about the past
Hi! There's an "exciting" project in Bristol Harbour - a huge four blocks of flats. Given your interest in urban development, I thought you might find this worth a story?
There is less money LAs can spend on projects to improve the environment because of issues like RAAC. However, the money gained from fines resulting from the clean air zone should be put towards these projects.... Maybe? pretty please..... Sorry it is a political comment. But it boils my hiss that nothing is none and yet the extra taxes are seemly never spent on what they should be for. It is the same here in Spain.
We used to have to spend money raised from transport taxes on, err... on transport. Lots of motorways arrived. Then they changed it so it complied with the general taxation rules: all goes into a big government pot of gold so it can be shared out across _all_ state projects and in _all_ regions. Hmmm, that's working well, isn't it?
there was an interesting piece in the bristol cable recently saying bristol / uk cities get 1/3rd of their income from local taxes/revenues and 2/3 from central gov, whereas in France it's the inverse. interesting debate as to whether taxation and spending should be more ringfenced on a regional basis, thematic basis, both, neither?? I am quite reticent to wade too far into such political and economic questions because I really don't have any answers, but it does seem fairly clear the current setup is not working well
@@PedestrianDiversions I appreciate the info being up Lunnon and missing out on the local knowledge, thank you. The argument that I heard for the so say tax simplification is that governments across the planet are getting concerned by super clever legal Charlies using various legislation like the Human Rights Act here and sthg similar in the States to challenge paying parts of the tax if it's going to fund sthg for instance against their beliefs or religion. A legal nightmare ! Therefore lump it all together and nobody knows what when how or where it comes from is their answer.
Of course, within 48 hours of me publishing a video moaning that there are no plans for new New Cut cycle bridges, the council make a statement suggesting the Camden Road bridge plans could be revived. Hello to everyone ending up here from googling that news story, please accept my apologies that owing to my lack of time machine, this video is outdated before you even watch it :D
If I was you PD I'd be inclined to take some credit for this happening so quickly after your efforts to awake us to the situation..... a lot of little bricks make for a powerful (5s) wall 8¬)
"Nobody would want to watch 40 minutes of nondescript industrial estate..." You underestimate us Sir!!!
Thought the same thing.
Don't worry about keeping to a particular video schedule, I'm just always happy when we get one
Iain Banks books used to represent river banks. Genius!
haha wow... I really wish I could claim that was deliberate, but really I just picked two matching-size books without realising that
“…y’know, the sort of money an average criminal landlord could drop on even an entry-level superyacht.”
You’re the hero this city needs!
Definitely made me giggle
I'm looking forward to the Pedestrian Diversion video dedicated to a criminal landlords super yacht.
"Instead I seem to be heading off on a massively political rant!" Welcome to Bristol!
Thank you for pointing out the “CGI Reconstruction” elements!
I led both the Langton Street Bridge and Camden Road bridge schemes in 2014. The former wasn't cancelled because of costs. We weren't able to get that far since City Design, one of the internal consultees during the planning process objected to the application for the new bridge to sit alongside the old. Since the Council didn't want to and couldn't legally object to its own proposal in public, we had to withdraw the application. There have been calls for the design to be reused, perhaps opposite Whitehouse Street, but they didn't materialise either. Also, folklore has it that the bridge was painted yellow without permission to reflect the nickname...
thanks for the correction and further info! I'm slightly annoyed with myself as initial draft said something like "I couldnt find a definite reason for the withdrawal but I assume it was lack of money like the camden road one was" but it seemed overly verbose and nitpicky and 'surely that was the reason'...note to self, never "surely" anything
I love these videos and I know absolutely nothing about urban planning and architecture etc! Your writing and presentation style is brilliant. So relaxing and interesting. I was chatting to a friend in Liverpool and mentioned this channel and he said he loves it! Which is a testament to how good they are that someone who doesn't even live in Bristol would find it intriguing. Thanks so much for making them.
And for those of us wots not in Brizzl anymore, it brings back memories as witnessed in the brilliant comments and our host's replies below.
this is probably a good moment to (re)emphasise I have zero background in urban planning or architecture either :) I guess living in a city such topics are inherently everybody's business to an extent, hence I chuck out my tuppenceworth, but never wish to imply I am qualified/expert! thanks for your kind words
Thanks, and don't worry you do a thorough job of disclaimer-ing! But your RUclips videos are brilliant and very well researched imho :)@@PedestrianDiversions
I used the footbridge to get to the Swimming Baths opposite there. Growing up in Bedminster, Redcliffe Hill had the most amazing shops! A Fag*** and Pie shop in what was a very ancient frontage, Pets Paradise, wonderful to explore, a proper Milliners, Florence, a Tobacconist, a pub with a children’s room at the back. There was real character there. Couldn’t post unless I edited the culinary item!
I lived in the Mead Street area, and it was a thriving community.
as I just replied to another comment, I love hearing these stories of the areas filmed in years past, thanks for sharing
The fact that mine isn't the first comment about it proves that yours is exactly the audience who would want to watch 40 mins of nondescript industrial estate, and listen to you talk about it!
It doesn't matter how long the gaps between your videos are, they are always a delight.
Goal Ferry Bridge reopened yesterday to the delight of Bedminster-Centre commuters such as myself. Although cant help feel it would have been better to replace the bridge altogether with something wider/more beautiful. Maybe a new bridge wouldn't have taken a year to install. Always liked the appearance of the banana bridge but its been many a year since i last actually crossed it.
Put me in charge ten years ago and give me a squillion quid, I'd have built the camden road one shown in this video AND put a big wide bridge from st johns road (asda carpark corner) over to somewhere near the louisiana, both PRIOR to revamping gaol ferry. but it's amazing to have it back at least
Here’s to hoping you find some motivation soon! Always a good day when even the thought of 40 minutes of industrial estate footage is floated 🎉
'...no one wants to watch nondescript video of an industrial estate...' ...you underestimate some of your audience 😅 whichever poor sod from the NSA gets tasked with monitoring my web traffic is earning their paycheck
Well done, again.
You have lined up the nails with the hammer and applied the right directional force toward inefficient political and planning thought.
You may not actually redirect the past or present actions of the faceless and apparently unaccountable politicians or bureaucrats making short-term decisions with long term effects for society and citizens. But keep up the effort!
Cheers for this, another excellent video.
I know it's nothing to do with you, but when I watched, the "ad break" after your line about Gaol Ferry Bridge taking so long cut to an ad with Homer Simpson fumbling to build a barbecue using French instructions. Perfect serendipity!
Excellent outro! Here's to more great videos!
Iain Banks books, and the culture series too! I knew you were a good sort.
Haha, I have never before heard the term "a dog's breakfast". I like it.
Walked over this earlier today. I usually do cross it on my way to Bedminster because York Road is an overall nicer street than Clarence Road. Even the modern infill on York Road is more sympathetic. I'm looking forward to the development on the Bart Spices site. I think increased activity around this area could only be a good thing.
The CGI is amazing, sir.
As a creator who started out with a video a week, then revised down to once a fortnight, then once a month... and now perhaps once or twice a year, if you're lucky... I fully understand, but I'm very happy to see a new one of yours about our fine city when they do appear! This red-flag waving lefty also wonders where all the public money goes to fund these things, it's almost as if it somehow ends up in the wrong places, greasing palms or getting familiar with the inside of brown paper envelopes (or being spent on 'feasibility studies').
Another brilliant informative and witty video. Looking forward to the next one, whenever that may be.
Hope you find the love for this again my friend, I find you so relaxing
Really enjoy your videos. Thanks for making interesting stuff!
Great video! 👍
Pedestrian Diversions for Chancellor! 🙂
Very good summary. Helps along the bridge engineers looking at this one!
Thanks PD another huge reminder of my youth 8¬) .... like one of your other reviewers I used the bridge to cross from Victoria Park via St Lukes Road to get to the Mayor's Paddock swimming baths (where I learned to swm in the 50's) The building was too narrow for a surrounding walk way so relied on a narrow cantilevered platform on each side to get to the far end.... so it was always an extra incentive to swim back to safety from the deep end! A favourite game prior to Guy Fawkes night was to buy as many 'mighty atom' bangers as we could afford ( a penny ha'penny each) at the nearby sweet shop in St Lukes Road, then strap a few (often 5) together, light the blue touch paper... count to 4 and then cast the bundle from the middle of the bridge hoping for an explosion as they hit the water..... Not recommended these days! We never knew it as 'banana' bridge back then due to it being more battleship grey with rust detailing. Once again A BIG THANK YOU!!!
one of the big unexpected pleasures of starting this channel has been provoking comments with these sort of memories. I dare say they are more valuable then the videos themselves, as the latter are generally a simple repackaging of info anybody could find on google, whereas these little snapshots of everyday life would perhaps otherwise not be online. so thank *you*!
You are so welcome 'PD' - I know I'm not alone in saying you inspire us to recall these silly facts and stories from our lives and I for one am delighted to share them where they relate to your chosen subject. More power to your elbow! @@PedestrianDiversions
p.s. it is a sad reflection on current 'times' that a simple old fashioned 'meatball' cannot be named on this platform. My parents used to take me to the fast food outlet your other 'loved' respondent MJM BS3 mentioned, and tell me how they enjoyed such a meal during the WW2 Bristol blitz years.
@@trainandbikefanThese algorillas are takin the Pie n Mash / ρι55.
Yes, grammarians, wot I done with the oblique by its other name there was indeed intentional.
This is probably tooooo much information but..... Harford Bridge was named after the Bristol banking family who owned (amongst other homes) Blaise Castle estate now a brilliant open space for all to use - also known to and mentioned by Jane Austen. The Harfords were deeply involved in the development of Ebbw Vale and I believe fairly philanthropic in their methods, as was another member of the family who lived in a mansion called Falcondale (now an hotel) he commissioned in Lampeter, Mid Wales. Not coincidentaly, Falcondale Road skirts Westbury on Trym from which one ajoining road is Lampeter Road. He led a campaign for a railway link between the once Manchester and Milford (Haven) railway station in Lampeter and Aberaeron (Aberayron on old GWR mapping) - Now, like so many other branch lines, providing a beautiful foot & cycle path alongside the river(afon) Aeron...... I said this might be a bit too much of a diversion 8¬)
Facinating and bizarre indeed that later development to both, north and south connections ignore this structure! It's position now answered, thank-you 😇 it is clearly a bridge waiting for a reason to be there. One wonders 'when' it was painted so, as it is clearly screaming 'I'M HERE, INCORPORATE ME PROPERLY WITH MY SURROUNDINGS PLEASE! (Yes, Safely!) The cut is a menacing channel is it not, akin to a twice daily 'Bristol flushing system' I wonder what uses this facility has been put to over the years! both intended or not 😑 I would love to see the footage of the south area to the railay as I am quite familiar with it at Spring street where HBH is currently based and a temporary school is being built bizarrely! Planners have a duty (I think anyway) to improve where possible and, yes, bring existing infrastructure, like our friend here, back into sensible and creative use!
tbh most of the better shots ended up in this, i suspect if i ever do do a full vid about the mead street/whitehouse st/bedminster green regen it will be in a few years when they've built enough of it to do some before/after comparisons. if i'm still around by then...for a city with a housing crisis it seems to take awfully long for anything to actually get built. i think factory no1 was under construction when i moved here 7 years ago and still isnt done
We up in Brislington and St Annes call the Concrete New Brislington Bridge the Banana Bridge.
you filmed my workplace! :D
Anyways a pleasure for one of your rants. 😂
Another gem
Really liked that thanks!
Really happy to see you drop another video. Love it when you slip into a bit of casual political ranting!
A great video! Always found this my favourite bridge but it is a shame its undermined by the lack of accesiblilty and ineffiecent connectivity to the area.
On a side note have you thought at all of making a video on the history of Bristol's council flats? They are facing all sorts of issues with the Barton House evacuation and others lacking proper insulation, but it would be interesting to know more about how they came about in that post war era.
Great video , Nice to see you're an Ian M Banks fan !
The Banana Bridge as with all other pedestrian bridges over the cut, was painted Green, as far as I can remember it was painted Yellow in the 80s.
Another excellent video and spot on with the rant.
Google has decided to make me (and everyone else, as far as i can tell) Log in everytime we want to comment on your videos. (Always good, by the way). So feel honoured!
But we're ready and eager to watch 40 mins of industrial estate ramblings
Oh dear, reminds me of the Nuneham Viaduct bridge... yeah the one near Oxford that was built on porridge and had to be rebuilt in weeks.
When we were kids my fiend and I used to walk across the top of arches me one side him the other , no sense of the danger when you are that young.
Thanks for the video, great stuff, as ever
Please keep the videos coming.
Sounds about typical of the council!.....I used to live very close to the banana bridge!
thanks for letting me know its cgi , i wouldnt want to think it was a live recording
when you're capable of my level of pinpoint photorealism it's an ethical necessity
Always brilliant 😁
When everyone owns everything nobody looks after anything.
You are wonderful
always felt like the banana bridge was the only interesting thing in a sea of nothingness, at least going out of the school to the north there's a takeaway or 2, just felt barren leaving through the south exit
10:35 they're working on vauxhall bridge as well
All the money has been spent on The Beacon!
We can wait oh ranter _par excellence!_ but I beg to aver that you sir are too self-effacing.
Your output speaks for itself, speaks highly, speaks volumes.
When you run out of Bristol bridges, can you hop on a canal boat along the K&A and sort out H'smiff bridge please?
Inaction, restrictions, complete closure, open to buses, absolutely complete closure this time, yes aren't we clever, oh sxxx where do all these people get across, err, reopening to peds - heavily policed (you get told off if you dare cross it in the wrong direction on the wrong side!) and the occasional random welding spark from behind the little pockets of scaffolding, once in a supermoon.
I'm sure it's not easy but all this dithering over bridges... is it to do with short term mayors in both cities, I wonder?
Listen fella, if we were to spend taxpayers money on amenities for, you know, taxpayers, how would our politicians be able to line their own pockets and those of blokes they met down the pub that promise they definitely know how to procure PPE, honest guv. My god, the naivety of some people.
Could you make a video about the plans for a bristol metro and why i get the feeling that nothing will end up being built?
part of me wants to make a big ranty video about the absence of metro and my (shared) suspicion that nothing will get built in future either, if only for the cynical reason that it would probably get a lot of views and make a few quid... part of me doesnt want to be a ranter and is more comfortable rambling about the past
Hi! There's an "exciting" project in Bristol Harbour - a huge four blocks of flats. Given your interest in urban development, I thought you might find this worth a story?
wapping wharf phase 2? or something else?
Anyone know what gives that beard oil (@3:42) it's fragrance?
Aloe, camelina and green tea
There is less money LAs can spend on projects to improve the environment because of issues like RAAC. However, the money gained from fines resulting from the clean air zone should be put towards these projects.... Maybe? pretty please.....
Sorry it is a political comment. But it boils my hiss that nothing is none and yet the extra taxes are seemly never spent on what they should be for. It is the same here in Spain.
We used to have to spend money raised from transport taxes on, err... on transport.
Lots of motorways arrived.
Then they changed it so it complied with the general taxation rules: all goes into a big government pot of gold so it can be shared out across _all_ state projects and in _all_ regions.
Hmmm, that's working well, isn't it?
there was an interesting piece in the bristol cable recently saying bristol / uk cities get 1/3rd of their income from local taxes/revenues and 2/3 from central gov, whereas in France it's the inverse. interesting debate as to whether taxation and spending should be more ringfenced on a regional basis, thematic basis, both, neither?? I am quite reticent to wade too far into such political and economic questions because I really don't have any answers, but it does seem fairly clear the current setup is not working well
@@PedestrianDiversions I appreciate the info being up Lunnon and missing out on the local knowledge, thank you.
The argument that I heard for the so say tax simplification is that governments across the planet are getting concerned by super clever legal Charlies using various legislation like the Human Rights Act here and sthg similar in the States to challenge paying parts of the tax if it's going to fund sthg for instance against their beliefs or religion. A legal nightmare !
Therefore lump it all together and nobody knows what when how or where it comes from is their answer.
Blocks of flats = "smart city", as I have been trying to warn people since 2014 ......... I really do wish people would wake the hell up!
It's a shame the steps at either end of it are so shite, big fan otherwise
'...no one wants to watch nondescript video of an industrial estate...' WRONG!!!