00:00For years, Bristol's been home to one of the country's largest communities of people living in vans, cars and caravans,
00:07with more than 600 people estimated to be living in vehicles across the city.
00:12Now, attentions turned to a new location in Brislington,
00:15where a group of vehicle dwellers has settled on the site of the former White Hart Lodge,
00:20a Grade 2 listed building on Brislington Hill.
00:23The former Coaching Inn closed as a pub in the early 2000s before becoming the home of a theatre school.
00:29More recently, plans have been submitted to convert the building into an 80-bed dementia care home.
00:34The vehicles are based in the car park behind the building, which is privately owned.
00:39Some of those now staying there are understood to have moved from Clifton Downs,
00:43where Bristol City Council earlier this year removed vehicle dwellers from the area.
00:47Others had already been living at the site for several months.
00:50Bristol City Council's previously established a number of temporary meanwhile sites for vehicle dwellers.
00:56Some nearby residents have questioned why people are not using those council-supported sites.
01:03Sally Hartley, who lives nearby, said she believes the presence of stored food has attracted rats closer to neighbouring homes.
01:09She also questioned why some vehicle dwellers were not using the council's designated sites.
01:15John Jones, another resident, said he hopes work will begin on the proposed care home development.
01:20He described the building as deteriorating over time and said some evenings have been noisy,
01:25although he added many people staying there largely keep themselves to themselves.
01:30Other residents described the site as an eyesore and said its appearance makes the area feel neglected.
01:36Some also expressed concerns about previous burglaries affecting neighbouring gardens,
01:41although no link was made between those incidents and the people living on the site.
01:45Not everyone living nearby shares those concerns.
01:48Bristol-Lington resident Sean Good said he believes having people on the site may discourage trespassers from entering the property.
01:55He suggested it could act as an alternative to employing security,
01:58although he stressed recent arrivals had been noisier than those already living there.
02:03He added that he did not want to vilify the people staying on the site and hope the situation would
02:08settle down.
02:09Bristol City Council says consultations now closed on proposals to convert the former pub into a dementia nursing home.
02:15The authority says vehicles are on private land behind the building
02:18and that responsibility for taking any action to remove them rests with the landowner.
02:23For now, the future of both the listed site and people living beside it remains uncertain,
02:28with redevelopment plans and the site's private ownership likely to determine what happens next.
02:33Several meanwhile sites are being created across Bristol
02:36as part of the council's response to the rising number of van dwellers in the city.
02:41Meanwhile, sites provide dedicated pitches as well as clean water and toilets.
02:4630 pitches could be created on the old railway line in Brislington.
02:50People living there would create a permanent presence on the site
02:54as well as visits from local council staff.
02:56And now remember to leave the chat above the road.
02:56So let us identify the photos, too.
02:56That could be nice for ouriltreans within our bodies doing a긴 sprungty bleak.
02:57It should be nice to be good at best forgotten what happens next to us.
02:57Now it is there.
