We need to talk about Stoke Lodge
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Doing the sums…
One question we’re often asked is “How much is Cotham spending on fighting the TVG?” It’s a reasonable question – and one that Cotham School answered in relation to TVG1, confirming on 3 July 2018 in response to an FOI request that: ‘Professional and legal expenses in association with the TVG application have totalled £100,752.73…
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Judicial review process discontinued
We can now confirm that Cotham School’s application for leave to go to judicial review has been discontinued, with the consent of both the defendant (Bristol City Council) and the interested party (Kathy Welham on behalf of the community). That doesn’t mean it’s all over – Cotham is still continuing with its section 14 application,…
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A costly decade of overstating risk
Ten years ago today (on 24 March 2014), two Cotham School employees (its Facilities Manager and Business Manager at the time) visited Stoke Lodge Playing Fields to conduct a risk assessment. Cotham had been using Stoke Lodge for PE lessons since 1 September 2000, but this was the very first time it had assessed whether…
- Doing the sums…
- Judicial review process discontinued
- A costly decade of overstating risk
- Facts (not alternative ones)
- “Just following orders” – but who gave the orders?
- Judgment #2 – no permission to appeal
- The week in WLSL…
- Cotham School v BCC and others: the High Court speaks
- BCC suing itself? What in the world is going on?
- Truth and lies
- Club sports on the village green
- Fathoming Cotham’s latest announcement
- The offensive fence – what’s next?
- A new Village Green! What does that mean?
- Ofsted, inspectors and fences
- What about the public rights of way?
- Landowner statements – so now we know
- Wonderful news!
- It’s just about the signs
- It’s for the Committee to decide
- Why the Inspector’s report wasn’t his final word
- Cotham’s claims about needing a fence
- Insufficient signs and inconsistent behaviour: where the Inspector’s report goes wrong (2)
- Imagining evidence and ignoring the rest: where the Inspector’s report goes wrong (1)
- PROWG papers published
- Coming to PROWG for a third time…
- How Cotham School sparked a TVG application
- BCC: when timing is everything
- BCC: ‘operating within the law’ or operating the law to suit itself?
- BCC/Cotham: too cosy for comfort?
- BCC: choosing to act on bad information
- Breaking news on landowner statements
- ‘As of right’ use: it started, but did it finish?
- The Avon signs: what were they meant to do?
- What’s the deal with Winterburn?
- Private Eye retrospective 2: a very expensive fence
- Private Eye retrospective 1: FOIs
- What’s the story with TVG2 and 3?
- The 12-year journey towards a TVG
- “You’ve been 547ed!”
We need to talk about Stoke Lodge 