Overview
- Bristol City Council’s application to license the Lanercost Road plot is at the recommendation stage and has been called in for a planning committee hearing.
- The proposal would create a temporary, managed site with water, toilets and waste disposal where occupants sign licences and pay weekly management fees plus council tax.
- Neighbors have lodged dozens of objections and two supports, citing late‑night noise, deliveries to vans, sleep disruption and fears for property values next to the new Elderberry Walk homes.
- Council housing chair Barry Parsons says officers carried out welfare checks and that legal action is a last resort, with possession proceedings for the Lanercost site due back in court later this month.
- Following last week’s extension of an injunction restricting van living on roads around the Downs and orders for hundreds to leave Clifton, some residents argue the policy shifts vehicles from wealthier areas to Southmead.