Campaigners trying to save the Bristol Zoo site from being redeveloped have slammed its chief executive Dr Justin Morris as ‘astonishingly complacent’ about the strength of feeling in the city over the closure of the zoo.
The Save Bristol Zoo group was responding to an interview with Bristol Live on Monday, ahead of next week’s crunch council planning committee meeting, which will decide on an application to build 196 new homes around the zoo site, and create a public gardens from the rest.
Bristol Live revealed on Monday that planning officers were recommending that application be given permission, which would effectively seal the fate of the closed-down zoo and back the charity’s vision of moving to an expanded new zoo at its Wild Place location on the edge of Bristol.
