We need to talk about Stoke Lodge
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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…
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The greater villain?
“Many, if not most, of the open spaces – commons, woods, greens – that remain today in this country, exist because they were preserved from development by collective action.” There are estimated to be over 140,000 miles of footpaths, bridleways and byways in England and Wales – a network of paths, tracks and trails that…
- 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
- What about the public rights of way?
We need to talk about Stoke Lodge 