The owner of an award-winning Bristol bakery and cafe feels his business has been ‘cut off’ by construction workers laying a new pavement outside. Eddie Perez of Pinkmans Bakery claims the work outside his shop on Park Street started without warning and the disruption has meant a substantial drop in trade.
Mr Perez says he received a letter from Bristol City Council earlier in the year to say the pavements on Park Street were being changed. But he claims there were no communications as to when the work would start outside his business or how intrusive it would be.
Construction workers have been laying new pavement along the length of Park Street in recent weeks, and he says they started working outside Pinkmans on Friday morning (August 12). The safety barriers are so close to the shop front that many customers have wrongly assumed the bakery and cafe is shut.
