People who swim in the River Avon in Bristol have vowed to keep up their fight to get the council to back them, despite the Mayor of Bristol turning down their appeal for a change in the city’s byelaws.
Marvin Rees went against a 5,200-signature petition and the unanimous cross-party support of all the councillors in Bristol and said he would not be altering a byelaw which prohibits anyone swimming in the River Avon or the Floating Harbour.
People who swim at the Conham River Park on the Avon near Hanham said they need the council to back their bid to ask the Government for the river there to have Designated Bathing Water Status - but the Mayor of Bristol turned that down earlier this month and instead decided to give ground on a separate wild swimming campaign - to create a safe swimming spot in the Cumberland Basin.
