{"id":32554,"date":"2018-02-01T11:26:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T11:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chopsybaby.com\/magazine\/?p=32554"},"modified":"2018-02-01T11:31:03","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T11:31:03","slug":"never-boring-st-judes-bristol-wick-house-planning-permission-shocker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chopsybaby.com\/magazine\/never-boring-st-judes-bristol-wick-house-planning-permission-shocker\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Never Boring in St Judes Bristol – Wick House Planning Permission Shocker"},"content":{"rendered":"
Wick House Brislington Opinion<\/h6>\n

Hold the front page. Why? Because Wick House, the hostel on Wick Road in Brislington, has put in retrospective planning permission for a fence. Residents are in outrage according to this morning’s Bristol Post. But residents have been in perpetual outage about Wick House for some time.<\/p>\n

We’ve written about Wick House before. I feel very strongly about it. I lived in Brislington for nearly ten years. I worked in Brislington and ran a business from Brislington. I leased commercial premises in Brislington. My children went to school in Brislington – on the estate where the disabled Iranian was murdered and set on fire.<\/p>\n

I also worked in a school right next door to Wick House in an education support job. My GP surgery is still in Brislington on Wick Road and I regularly use the oft quoted ‘methadone pharmacy’.<\/p>\n

Whilst ordinarily I would never reveal so much about my life on the internet, I feel tight chested with anger that yet again, Wick House residents are being persecuted. As a former Brislington resident from the vicinity of Wick House, I never once had an issue with anyone living there. I never noticed them loitering around the school. I saw them on occasion politely pop into the pharmacy for methadone. There may have been some times I saw them with – wait for the horror – cans of alcohol in their hands.<\/p>\n

The hostel has also submitted retrospective planning permission because it was housing more residents than originally intended. This is probably indicative of the lack of support services and facilities available to people in Bristol rather than a personal attack on BS4.<\/p>\n

Local Lib Dem councillor Jos Clark, appears to have taken it upon herself to keep Bristol residents informed. Her Wick House updates come thick and fast on Facebook community pages, each time spurring negative comments about residents drinking alcohol and collecting medication from the local Boots pharmacy. I remember one mother replying that she didn’t want her child to see a resident taking methadone. How the child would know what it was is curious. Also, perhaps the mother is not aware that addiction is neither viral or contagious.<\/p>\n

\"Wade<\/a><\/p>\n

I am now based very close to Logos House. That’s a huge Salvation Army hostel on Wade Street in Central Bristol. I’ve been here two years and have seen everything. Nothing surprises me anymore. Blood, vomit, spit, alcohol, fighting, police, ambulances, upset and drama. As my seven year old would say “It’s just St Judes, it’s never boring is it?”.<\/p>\n

I was disappointed to have missed the incident where after a car collision on the main road, helpful residents a little worse for wear tried to direct traffic. But I don’t judge them. Who am I to judge?<\/p>\n

I once had to come home through the back bin gate because a Logos House resident was having a crisis in the main doorway. Two police officers spent a long time calmly talking with him, trying to get him to see the positives he had achieved and to keep going. Imagine then being such an asshat of a local resident that I would campaign and petition to have him and others in his situation booted out of his home. It’s unthinkable.<\/p>\n

And yet in Brislington West that’s exactly what’s happening right now. There are local residents who have decided that some members of their community are some type of subspecies and have no business living near them. Think of the children!!<\/p>\n

When trawling through the planning permission objections, the same comments arise time after time. Those objecting simply don’t want people with needs, difficulties or addictions living in Brislington. They want them out:<\/p>\n

‘I work in the local school on Wick road and I think it’s wrong that children have to walk up and down the road seeing people drinking first thing in the morning also seeing anti social behaviour.’<\/em><\/p>\n

‘Also the police and ambulance’s attend Wick house on a daily basis and I feel this is a waste of are service.’<\/em><\/p>\n

‘It’s totally in the wrong place to close to people’s homes and schools.’<\/em><\/p>\n

‘We have school’s at both ends of Wick Road and children have to walk up and down the road seeing people drinking first thing in the morning or asleep on the grass by the local church why they wait for there school buses.’<\/em><\/p>\n

‘We are afraid to go to our local chemist shop when the residents go for their methodone, they walk along the street\u00a0<\/em>in groups which is very intimidating.’<\/em><\/p>\n

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