People living in some parts of South Bristol say their streets have become even more of a rat run since the introduction of the Clean Air Zone three-quarters of a mile away.
Residents of Windmill Hill say their narrow Victorian residential streets have always been used as a cut through between Bedminster and Knowle, but ever since the Clean Air Zone was introduced at the end of November, there has been a noticeable increase in the number of vans using their roads to avoid the charge.
The issue has already caused something of a political row at City Hall, with the Mayor of Bristol Marvin Rees accusing a local councillor who raised it of being ‘negative’.
