Campaigners fighting to save Bristol Zoo Gardens in Clifton have sent a letter to the Mayor asking for a Tree Protection Order to be issued for the entire site to stop another incident of ‘environmental vandalism’ which saw the leader of Plymouth’s council resign this month.
The letter, which is signed by seven different organisations in the city, warns Marvin Rees that the kind of ‘justifiable and widespread outrage’ from around the country, that has been directed at local authorities in Plymouth and Sheffield in recent months will be coming his way, unless he expands the protection orders to cover the whole of the famous zoo site.
Bristol Zoo Society closed the zoo to the public on September 1 last year, and wants to obtain planning permission to build 220 flats on much of the site.
