SPRA – Sneyd Park Residents Association

The ‘Forwards Festival’ is planned to take place on the Downs this September 2023.

The organisers, ‘Team Love’, have submitted an application for the grant of a premises licence to Bristol City Council.

Interested parties and responsible authorities may make written representation to the relevant Licensing Authority by 18th April 2023. Such representation shall be made in writing to Licensing Team (Temple Street), PO Box 3399, Bristol, BS1 9NE or via email: Licensing@bristol.gov.uk.

https://www.forwardsbristol.co.uk

Alan Coleman

SPRA sadly have to inform you all that Alan Coleman passed away peacefully after a short illness on Monday, January 16th aged 89.

For those who missed our previous post, please note that the funeral details are as follows:

The funeral will be held at St Mary’s Church, Mariners Drive on Friday 24 Feb at 2pm.

Anyone who would like to pay their respects is more than welcome.

For the full announcement, please see: https://sp-ra.org.uk/2023/02/06/alan-coleman/

As a local resident, if you have an interest in the ‘We Love Stoke Lodge’ campaign to save the Stoke Lodge parkland, please do take a few moments to read the following important update and appeal from them, which we are sharing here, fyi. Click on the image below to access the full 2-page document:

Alan Coleman

SPRA sadly have to inform you all that Alan Coleman passed away peacefully after a short illness on Monday, January 16th aged 89.

He was a strong supporter of SPRA being on the Committee, Vice Chairman and Chairman from 2002 to 2007.

Alan was a resident of Sneyd Park for over 52 years and during that period gave much of his time to the area.

He will be sadly missed and our thoughts are with his family at this difficult time.

The Family have informed us that his Funeral will be held at St Mary’s Church, Mariners Drive on Friday 24 Feb at 2pm. Anyone who would like to pay their respects is more than welcome.

On Saturday, 18th February 2023, Bristol Rotary Club is hosting its ‘Saturday Serenade’ concert at St Mary’s Church in Stoke Bishop in aid of several of the charities it supports.

Please see below for full details and please do come along and support this excellent event if you can.

For more details, please see below.

The SPRA Committee would like to wish everyone in the Sneyd Park conservation area a very happy and healthy 2023, with our best wishes!

As Sneyd Park is an officially designated Conservation Area featuring a wide variety of beautiful and, often, very old trees, we thought it might be useful to share the following information from Bristol City Council with regard to managing trees in such conservation areas, including:

• when to tell BCC of proposed works and how much notice to give before works can commence
• how to find out if a tree is within a conservation area
• which works can be done without giving notice
• how to let BCC know of proposed tree works
• the potential negative implications of carrying out works without giving notice, gaining permission to undertake works and, in particular, if you cut down, uproot, top, lop, deliberately destroy or damage a tree in a conservation area.

For further information, please follow the link to Bristol City Council’s website here:

We would like to extend to all residents of Sneyd Park our very best wishes for Christmas and the New Year!

the SPRA Committee

We have spotted that Bristol City Council are currently running several surveys. We thought we would share them here for your information and action, as you see fit.

Please click on the image to access the website link to the surveys:

On Remembrance Sunday this coming Sunday, 13th November 2022, Sneyd Park Residents Association will be laying a wreath at the Stoke Bishop War Memorial on Stoke Hill to commemorate the contribution of British and Commonwealth military and civilian servicemen and women in the two World Wars and later conflicts.

Please join us at 10.45am on Sunday, 13th November at Stoke Bishop War Memorial on the top of Stoke Hill, Stoke Bishop, Bristol, for the two minutes silence and the laying of the wreath.