Barton House

• Your say / community

  ‘I am proud to stand up even if it makes some people uncomfortable’

  Fadumo Farah on keeping on fighting for her community

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• News / Barton House

  Inquiry into how tower block of council flats was evacuated

  Around 400 tenants living in Barton House were told to leave their homes in November 2023

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• News / Barton House

  Former mayor’s emails ‘unlikely’ to be reviewed in Barton House evacuation inquiry

  Marvin Rees was in Rwanda when residents were evacuated from Barton House

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• News / Barton House

  Council responds to residents’ report on ‘shock evacuation’

  The report compiled by residents, ACORN and Medact Bristol was published in February 2025

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• News / Barton House

  ‘No silver bullet’ on rehousing Barton House tenants

  The comment comes as the tenants await a response to the independent report of the evacuation

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• News / Housing

  Barton House evacuation was a ‘mass traumatising event’

  In a meeting about the report they highlighted that the experience has "fundamentally eroded trust"

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• News / Barton House

  Will Greens fulfil their election pledges of rehousing Barton House residents?

  Thirteen months after the tower block was evacuated, many residents still await relocation

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• Features / 10 Questions

  10 Questions: Tony Dyer – ‘Local government is facing some of the biggest challenges it has ever faced’

  The leader of Bristol City Council answers questions from our readers

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