In autumn 2023 Avon Crescent re-opened to through traffic and the residents are concerned about dangers to road users due to lack of safety measures. 

Now the council is applying to itself to cancel all the Metrobus planning conditions on the grounds that Avon Crescent has no connection with Metrobus.

If you are also concerned please click on comments, and comment! https://pa.bristol.gov.uk/online-applications/ Bristol City Council planning application number 22/05943/X

In 2014 Metrobus was given planning consent to build a third road at Avon Crescent. One of the planning conditions when the Metrobus scheme was given consent, was that Avon Crescent would become a shared space with replacement trees, for those that were felled for the Metrobus road build.

This shared space has never been built.

In 2016 the council consulted on a re-routing scheme which was funded and going ahead, until the Mayor suddenly cancelled it in April 2017.

Now the council is applying to itself to cancel all the Metrobus planning conditions on the grounds that Avon Crescent has no connection with Metrobus.

But this is not the case, as the Metrobus junction is now a very heavily used walking and cycling route, linking north to south safe active travel routes across Ashton Avenue Bridge.