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- Aug 18, 2022
Reading the runes on noise: Mixed messages in the data
The Noise Pages recorded 117 noise incidents in 2021-22, from July 2021 to end-June this year. Most of these, 57%, occurred in Cotham...

- Aug 17, 2022
Operation Beech noise patrol continues to be well used
For the second year in a row, Operation Beech, the police anti-noise patrol funded by University of Bristol, attended almost 300...
- Oct 3, 2021
Residents' associations urge UoB to adopt 'Respect for Communities' plan
A group of nine residents' associations is urging the University of Bristol to improve the guidance it gives to students on how to live...
- Aug 19, 2021
HMO landlord contact addresses now available on Pinpoint Map
Contact addresses for landlords of HMOs are now freely available via the internet following a recent change by Bristol City Council....
- Jul 12, 2021
New student partnership is urged to address residents' concerns
Bristol Student Community Partnership needs to make a "visionary" effort to reshape students' attitudes to the areas they live in, I told...
- Jun 12, 2021
Text of Letters to UoB
Below is the full exchange of letters between the "combined residents' group" and University of Bristol, as referred to in "New...
- Mar 19, 2021
Beech police attend 55 noise incidents over two-month period
Operation Beech, the police noise patrol paid for by the University of Bristol, responded to 55 incidents between 13 January 2021 and 17...
- Feb 8, 2021
My call for review of council noise enforcement: Scrutiny chair asks officers to respond
Councillor Anthony Negus has asked council officers to respond to issues I raised about Bristol's noise-enforcement policies. (This...
- Feb 8, 2021
Council loses first planning appeal under new HMO policy
A company seeking to build a 6-bed student HMO in Hampton Lane, at the rear of 85 Whiteladies Road, has won its appeal against Bristol...
- Jan 16, 2021
Operation Beech noise patrols attend 128 incidents in Term 1
Operation Beech, the police patrol paid for by University of Bristol, responded to 128 incidents, mostly noise related, in the first term...