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Bristol City Council deliberately ignored bid to install Black Lives Matter statue on Colston plinth
Top planning officer says it was done so the new history commission could consider all the issues
17:23, 30 APR 2021
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The statue was erected in the early hours of this morning on July 15, 2020 (Image: Ben Birchall/PA Wire)
A bid to install a sculpture of a Black Lives Matter protester on the Colston Statue plinth was deliberately ignored, Bristol City Council’s top planner has revealed.
A government inspector will rule whether the life-sized depiction of Jen Reid can sit for two years atop the empty base where slave trader Edward Colston’s monument was pulled down last summer, after an appeal was lodged on the grounds of “non-determination”.
Council to spend £150,000 taking Western Harbour plans back to the drawing board
The council is spending £150,000 to ask the city what it wants to see happen at the Western Harbour
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City leaders have restarted the process of trying to find out what the people of Bristol want to see happen at the Cumberland Basin - and are spending £150,000 to ask the question.
Work on £8,000 Colston statue museum display begins
The first clues about when, and how, the infamous statue will be put back on public display
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The statue of Edward Colston is to be housed in an £8,000 display which will include a barrier, when it is eventually shown to the public later this year.
Work has begun on constructing the display that will house the statue, along with the Black Lives Matter placards and signs that were left around the plinth on the day in June 2020 when it was toppled and dumped in the Floating Harbour.