Bristol City Council webcasts a range of meetings to improve openness, understanding and accountability of local decision making. The project has developed from an EU project called E-participate. If you have problems viewing our webcasts, please see the Help and FAQ section.

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The next webcast is the Development Control (Central) Committee,

Recent Full Council meeting at the Council House

Tuesday, 8 September, 6pm

You can watch the archive of this webcast here.

Discussion includes:

• The Area Green Space Plan consultation,
• Budget cut proposals, and
• The granting of a license for a Hooters in Bristol.

Development Control to decide on the Stokes Croft Tesco application

Wednesday, 22 September, 2pm

Councillors will be meeting in the Council House to discuss a number of planning applications, including the proposed Tesco Express store on the former site of Jesters comedy club in Stokes Croft. 

Click here around 2pm on 22 September to watch this meeting live.

More information will be available soon on the Council's Meeting Finder portal.

A webcast is a transmission of audio and video over the internet. Through the use of your internet connection (either broadband or via a dial-up modem) and Windows Media Player you can view the meetings live from the comfort of your own home on your PC or Apple Mac.

Should you miss a meeting, or would like to view a section of the meeting again, you can do so through our webcast archives. The archives allow you to view the meeting at your leisure and, using the index points, allow you to jump to a specific agenda point or speaker.

Instructions for making the most of the webcast facilities can be found by clicking on the 'Home' tab on the webcast viewer window when watching a meeting.

Bristol City Council is now on You Tube!

Check out our informative videos here, covering a range of local issues such as budget proposals, graffiti and noise pollution.

Explore our other e-democracy tools

Discover more ways to engage with your local council through e-democracy, including e-petitions, online discussion and consultations.

Also available on www.thisisbristol.co.uk

We are working with the Evening Post and their website - www.thisisbristol.co.uk - to publicise our webcasting and encourage more people to get involved with the work of the Council and the life of the city.

All footage from our webcasts is the copyright of Bristol City Council. The people featured in our webcasts have agreed to appear ONLY on the Council's official webcast site, www.bristol.gov.uk/webcast. You are not permitted to download any footage nor upload it (whether in part or in full) to another website without the written permission of Bristol City Council and those featured in the webcast. Please be aware that video sharing websites (e.g. Youtube, Google Video) state under their terms and conditions that you must be the copyright owner and have the permission of all those involved in order to upload videos to their sites.