We need to talk about Stoke Lodge
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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
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You said, we did…
On 26 September 2025, Bristol City Council’s Chief Executive Nick Hibberd wrote to a large number of local residents in response to emails expressing concern that Cotham School had started to reinstall a fence around Stoke Lodge just hours after Councillors had called for a pause and for compromise. In that letter, Mr Hibberd said
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Claims, false claims and counting to two
November at Stoke Lodge: 5 November 2025: Cotham School makes a planning application to install eight, six-metre tall towers, each with three CCTV cameras, around its leased area at Stoke Lodge (in addition to the six CCTV cameras already in place and the three additional CCTV compounds that are currently on the land without planning
- 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
- Why the Inspector’s report wasn’t his final word
- Cotham’s claims about needing a fence
We need to talk about Stoke Lodge 