We need to talk about Stoke Lodge
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Funded CCTV, unfounded claims
If you’ve been following the public inquiry into rights of way at Stoke Lodge Playing Fields, you’ll realise why we’ve been quiet for a while over here on the blog. But this is a multi-layered saga. Another major strand relates to Cotham School’s fixation on surrounding the historic parkland of Stoke Lodge with eight 6m…
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The tithe map trick
Long-time Lodge-watchers may remember that back in 2018, Bristol City Council confirmed that the land surrounding Stoke Lodge house was the curtilage of the listed building (curtilage status gives it special protections in planning terms). Then Cotham’s planning consultant Mike Orr (now of Rapleys) wrote to BCC asking for that to be changed, because having…
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2, 6, 16 or 72?
On 14 November 2025, Cotham School published a press statement claiming that its playing fields had been ‘targeted’ in a ‘destructive vandalism attack’. It said that its contractor had discovered ‘extensive damage to newly installed fencing… with large sections deliberately destroyed in a manner that prevents repair or reuse’, concentrated in one specific area: We…
- Funded CCTV, unfounded claims
- The tithe map trick
- 2, 6, 16 or 72?
- The greater villain?
- Fail to plan, plan to fail
- CCTV: unnecessary, unlawful, unbelievably expensive
- Shopping Cart Theory
- Alternative sites and alternative truth – games with numbers
- You said, we did…
- Claims, false claims and counting to two
- Cotham’s mis-information statements (2)
- Cotham’s mis-information statement (1)
- “They do not exist in our mind”
- Categorically, she did
- Did she or didn’t she?
- Costs capping: what really happened
- The High Court decision
- Local Green Space and little [green] lies
- Maths and fruit
- A PROW for all seasons
- Invest to protect Stoke Lodge!
- Why I love Stoke Lodge
- Stoke Lodge: a quick guide
- Ask a Cotham governor…
- One year on – what’s new?
- 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
