'Brides' hold funeral held for caravan park trees they married

A group of campaigners held a mock funeral today (Monday) in front of Bristol’s harbourside caravan park, after it closed for the last time and the last holidaymakers left . The group are opposed to plans to build 166 new flats on the site at Baltic Wharf, and four years ago many of them were among 70 women who symbolically ‘married’ the trees on the caravan park site.

Bristol City Council has handed over the site to its housing developer arm Goram Homes, which plans to redevelop the land with blocks of flats. After a long saga to get planning permission and funding in place, work is now due to start this month on the new homes.

The caravan park, which opened in 1978, was run by the Caravan Club and was often fully-book

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