The Mayor of Bristol said he is ‘deeply disappointed’ in council officers after a series of gaffes at City Hall look set to allow part of a protected hedge in South Bristol to be cut down.
Council chiefs have admitted that they gave the go-ahead to a landowner to cut down the hedge at Yew Tree Farm on the A38 in Highridge by mistake, even though they weren’t supposed to and a different department was about to designate the hedge and the field behind it as a site of Special Nature Conservation Interest (SNCI).
Council planning chiefs today admitted mistakes but said there’s nothing they can do about it, because in another mistake, they left it too long to correct themselves and withdraw the permission they gave the landowners back in early spring.
