Hugh Alexander

Architect with Bristol practice Alexander & Thomas, husband and dad, cyclist.

[Hugh Alexander @hughbriz]

@GeorgeFergusonx The whole thing stinks - signing up for a lose-lose deal paying developers so they can make all the profit out of a massive eyesore of cut and paste London buildings. What is going on at BCC??

[People & Cities @GeorgeFergusonx]

Someone should go to prison for this appalling deal - a criminal waste of public land and money. We acquired Arena Island for the Bristol region’s benefit - not for a hastily stitched up deal in aid of misplaced political ambition. Local politics at its very worst..

[Suzanne Audrey @AudreySuzanne]

Towerblocks on Land South of Princess Street were approved in a meeting where
-the public's right to ask questions was curtailed
-officers brought a VERY late paper
-councillors were confused
😠
Please share/help with the fundraiser for a judicial review
https://t.co/NGeqQu5RuF

[Martin Rands @martr101.bsky.soc @martr101]

What is the point of planning committees when officers decide and blackmail the councillors? Councillors told they can't refuse South Bristol's tallest-ever building

https://t.co/6whHHwIs5m

[Tristan Cork Post @TristanCorkPost]

There's fury in South Bristol after council chiefs in a behind-closed-doors meeting quietly brought forward the plan to build new homes on the Whitchurch Athletics Track, while a campaign to save it continued.
It'll be built on in months rather than years
https://t.co/oo2bl9DKhw

[People & Cities @GeorgeFergusonx]

Scandalous 😡. We @BristolCouncil give one of Bristol’s most valuable sites to a massive corporation for the primary reason to wreck our sustainable Arena Island plan, accept crazy over development, guarantee their commercial rental income and are now asked to relieve them of their social responsibility? 💁🏼 @bristol247 @BristolLive

[Hugh Alexander @hughbriz]

@GCHQ @BBCBreakfast 0

[Hugh Alexander @hughbriz]

@TRESAcic @Totterdown_ @TristanCorkPost Substandard is still not good enough

[Hugh Alexander @hughbriz]

@TRESAcic @Totterdown_ @TristanCorkPost This scheme was passed by the committee - now with half the level of affordable housing originally agreed to.

[Hugh Alexander @hughbriz]

@TRESAcic @Totterdown_ Bart Spices site turned down for reduction from 30% to 10% affordable housing! Cost of building and maintenance for lifts, stairs and infrastructure for 8+ storeys unsustainable

[Hugh Alexander @hughbriz]

@TRESAcic @Totterdown_ There are serious problems with the cost and sustainability of new (very) high rise housing. Time to recognise a better model

[Hugh Alexander @hughbriz]

@TRESAcic @EdPlowden @TonyDDyer @Totterdown_ @TristanCorkPost @BristolCivicSoc @bristolgreen @silaseton1 Time to hold Councillors to account for this wholly foreseeable development

[Hugh Alexander @hughbriz]

@SupremoRobert Oh well - take it easy!

[Hugh Alexander @hughbriz]

@SupremoRobert Yes I think above 1800m you really notice it. Think how much fitter you will be!

[Kay Vee 🇯🇲🛼🎶 @KylieVolatile]

Okay @madebygoogle @Google. You need to either undo this update or replace every Pixel 4a free of charge. Installing software on old phones to render them unusable is borderline criminal. Especially if your solution is to send it off for three weeks or buy a new one.

[Hugh Alexander @hughbriz]

@paulmizen1 @AudreySuzanne @TRESAcic Probably brick, but I rather think the daylight calculations which already look bad have not accounted for this. Not sure why anyone thinks that less than 50% of flats having recommended minimum daylight level is acceptable

[Hugh Alexander @hughbriz]

Why does it have to be black? 15 storey canyons of black buildings. Who thought that would be a great idea?? @AudreySuzanne @TRESAcic

[Green Street News @newsgreenstreet]

Plans submitted for £350m Bristol Temple Island mixed-use development

@BristolCouncil
https://t.co/oG7PQMAfoJ

[Hugh Alexander @hughbriz]

@TristanCorkPost Would have hoped for better from these architects.

[Hugh Alexander @hughbriz]

@TristanCorkPost A whole 15 storey neighborhood of black buildings. Is this a joke?

[Hugh Alexander @hughbriz]

@AudreySuzanne Like night follows day - having received planning permission for a major scheme, developers strip out all the parts that might have made it almost bearable. Depressing..