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Unfounded fears that eight-storey building will be built on woodland
Don’t believe everything that you read on Twitter.
That’s the moral of this story, which starts with a tweet from Mary Colwell that has been shared by hundreds of people.
Colwell claims that an eight-storey hospital building is going to be built on a small patch of woodland in Kingsdown.
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“So angry, so sad,” Colwell writes, and that sentiment is shared in the replies by people aghast at the plans for the building on Alfred Hill close to the Bristol Heart Institute.
But the claims about the proposed development between two car parks are completely false.
University Hospitals Bristol & Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) communications manager, Sally Lingard, told Bristol24/7 that they have “no plans to develop the woodland on Alfred Hill”.
Lingard said: “We did apply for consent to remove a few dead trees from the site, as part of our woodland management strategy but that’s it. We are committed to keeping and maintaining the woodland area.”
A footpath and boardwalk connects the bottom of Alfred Hill to Horfield Road – photo: Martin Booth
Main photo: Martin Booth
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