Stop EBLN Bristol - Weekly Update

5th March 2026

🥷🏻 EBLN Survey Left Wide Open to Manipulation and Fraud

The EBLN Survey which took place in late 2025 was insecure, open to manipulation and fraud, and a complete waste of taxpayer money.

As this Freedom of Information (FOI) request shows (click here), Bristol City Council hired a company called SmartSurvey Ltd to conduct and manage the survey. The council refuses to show the correspondence between SmartSurvey Ltd and various members of the council, including Ed Plowden because:

“It is not the public interest to allocate officer time in excess of 114 hours to locate, identify and extract information to satisfy the interests of one information request, that may be of limited interest to the wider public”

The information is absolutely in the public interest as the council is trying to roll out the 15-minute city program to multiple areas of Bristol including South Bristol and beyond.

💰 Waste of Taxpayer Money

The council already has a online portal where Bristol residents can log in to pay their council tax. A secure survey link could easily have been placed in people’s online accounts from where they could have securely accessed the survey. The technology has been paid for already by taxpayers and there was no need to spend money on a private company to implement a relatively simple piece of SaaS software to conduct the survey.

Just watch Cllr Ed Plowden’s reaction to this line of questioning:

> Watch here
> FOI Request: click here

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⛔ Council’s Report Shows That Traffic is Down After Blocking The Roads

Thanks to the geniuses at the council monitoring the EBLN Low Traffic Neighbourhood, they have miraculously discovered that the volume of traffic is down in this report.

It took a 124-page report, no doubt put together by a huge team of people collectively earning hundreds of thousands of pounds a year, to discover that blocking roads leads to less cars able to use them.

Absolute geniuses.

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⛪ Church Lost 100 Parishioners and 20% of Income Due to the EBLN

St Patrick’s Church in Redfield has suffered immensely due to the EBLN.

The church didn’t just lose 100 members, get 30% less attendees at community events, and lose 20% of their income income due to the road blocks.

To add insult to injury, a hearse got fined after driving through a bus gate because access has been blocked by people like Cllr Rob Bryher and Cllr Ed Plowden.

The Church has also identified that when a nearby mosque complained about a particular road block, it was taken away immediately. However, the same courtesy was not extended to the church.

> Read more click here and click here

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🎬 How You Can Take Action Against LTNs in Bristol:

WRITE to your MP and Councillor: click here

Structure your emails in this way:

1. Write down the problems you are facing (send photos if appropriate).

2. Write about the impact they’re having on you, your family & friends.

3. Write down what action you want your elected members to take.

MEET YOUR COUNCILLOR

Rob Bryher is the Councillor for the EBLN scheme currently in St. George. He is one of the key players in the council pushing hard for road blocks and planters which have caused traffic chaos throughout Bristol:

• Turn up without appointment on the 1st Tuesday of each month between 11am - 1pm at The Beehive Centre (map)

• Arrange a face to face meeting with him directly on 07386 698 740 or by email either here cllr.rob.bryher@bristol.gov.uk or here so it can be tracked

• To meet your councillor in Barton Hill and other areas of Bristol: click here

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