We need to talk about Stoke Lodge
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CCTV: unnecessary, unlawful, unbelievably expensive
Wind the clock back to September 2025. Cotham School was preparing to throw up another ring of steel around the perimeter of its leased area at Stoke Lodge. Bristol City Council’s Economy & Skills Committee was about to consider whether to issue an ‘Article 4 Direction’ removing permitted development rights at Stoke Lodge (which would…
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Shopping Cart Theory
Have you heard of Shopping Cart Theory? Basically, it suggests that a person’s moral character can be judged by whether they return their shopping trolley to the designated area in a supermarket car park. Returning it is objectively right, the appropriate thing to do, and pretty easy. On the other hand, abandoning it is not…
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Alternative sites and alternative truth – games with numbers
A recent response to a Freedom of Information request shows that even while installing its new fence at Stoke Lodge, Cotham School was talking to Bristol City Council about moving to an alternative site for PE. We first saw this in an email that was sent on the same day in September 2025 that the…
- 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
- 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
We need to talk about Stoke Lodge 