Bristol Downs Watch

Campaigning to Preserve Bristol Downs and the Avon Gorge

Downs Watch opposes plans to redesign the landscape of the Avon Gorge and Bristol Downs.

Site Updated: November 9th 2008
Bristol Downs in May

PLANS TO CHANGE THE DOWNS AND AVON GORGE
In 2003 Downs Watch raised a petition of 1000 signatures calling on Bristol City Council Downs Committee to stop clearing vegetation from the Downs. A moratorium was agreed while detailed management proposals were drafted. So far, management proposals have been approved for the plateau (Clifton Down and Dyrdham Down) and a draft management plan has been produced for the Avon Gorge. However, if these proposals are implemented there will be dramatic changes to the landscape of the Bristol Downs and the Avon Gorge.

These management proposals amount to a plan fundamentally to redesign the landscape in order to attempt to return the Downs and the Avon Gorge to the open grassland of 150 years ago, when the area was grazed by sheep and was mostly treeless.

Downs Watch opposes any plans to redesign the landscape of the Avon Gorge and Bristol Downs.

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