South Bristol Liveable Neighbourhoods consultation 2025

About Liveable Neighbourhoods

We believe streets are for everyone.

Liveable Neighbourhoods aim to make streets healthier, more accessible and more pleasant by:

• putting people first – reducing traffic and lowering vehicle speeds to create safer, more welcoming and accessible streets. Vehicles would still be able to access all properties at any time, though some routes may change
• prioritising health – improving air quality and allowing more people to choose physically active travel options, like walking and cycling, and be safe doing so
• making better community spaces – designing calmer streets and greener areas where people can relax, children can play, and families feel safe travelling to school

South Bristol Liveable Neighbourhoods

Overview

The South Bristol Liveable Neighbourhoods (SBLN) project aims to make improvements to streets across a large area of Bedminster, Southville, and Windmill Hill.

In 2024, we asked residents and stakeholders across the SBLN area what is already working well in your streets and local environment and what you would like to see improve. We received over 6,000 comments from more than 1,550 different people using an online map, plus more than 500 responses to a survey. Find out more about the 2024 engagement.

Based on your feedback and local features, we have identified 11 distinct neighbourhoods within the SBLN area. These are shown on the map below.

South Bristol Liveable Neighbourhoods area showing 11 neighbourhoods

You told us that managing parking, speeding and volume of traffic are big issues. Safety for pedestrians and cyclists is a top priority in most areas.

We have developed proposals that would reduce the number of vehicles using residential streets as short cuts. This would help maintain safer speeds. The proposals would make it easier to:

• walk, wheel and cycle
• manage parking
• create attractive spaces to spend time outdoors

The proposals make sure that cars, delivery vehicles and emergency services can reach all properties. Buses would be able to operate as usual. We will consider additional parking and access for Blue Badge holders.

In this consultation, we ask for your views on our proposals.

What we are proposing

Proposals as part of this project include:

• parking measures – Residents’ Parking Schemes and Matchday Parking Schemes
• changes to traffic movements – including one-way streets, no entries, closing roads to through-traffic, while keeping access to all properties
• local transport options – car clubs, cycle parking and cycle hangars, dedicated e-scooter and e-bike parking locations, and chargers for electric vehicles (EVs) in lampposts
• improving road safety on some connector roads – the busier roads in the area – including traffic calming and pedestrian crossings
• improvements on high streets and places where there are schools and local centres – including safety improvements, trees and greening, benches, café seating, and arts and culture programming

Phasing and timescales

The proposed improvements are planned in 2 phases.

Phase 1

Phase 1 would include the following measures across all of the South Bristol Liveable Neighbourhoods (SBLN) area:

• changes to parking
• improvements to streets around schools, local centres and high streets
• some measures for residential streets such as cycle parking and EV chargers

Phase 1 also includes a focus on three neighbourhoods:

• Southville
• Bedminster East
• Totterdown

In these Phase 1 neighbourhoods, we are proposing changes to traffic movements as well as the types of measures planned for the whole SBLN area. Proposed boundaries are shown in the above map.

The Phase 1 neighbourhoods have been selected based on the number of traffic concerns and the level of support expressed in the 2024 engagement, their closeness to the city centre and strong links to the existing transport network.

This project is largely funded by City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement which must be invested by March 2027.

Phase 2

This phase could provide additional improvements in the remaining neighbourhoods that are not part of Phase 1. This will require further work and additional funding from the West of England Mayoral Combined Authority from 2027 onwards.

Other transport changes and developments in the area

There are other transport changes happening in the area that are not part of the SBLN project. We have included information about these changes for context, but we are not consulting you about these changes here. More information about other transport projects in the area