Editing Hartcliffe (section)

==Economic and social deprivation==
The estates have long been identified as suffering a multitude of different problems which characterise a socially excluded community.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Ewles|first1=Linda|last2=Harris|first2=Wendy|last3=Roberts|first3=Einir|last4=Shepard|first4=Mike|title=Community health development on a Bristol housing estate: A review of a local project ten years on|journal=Health Education Journal|date=2001|volume=66|issue=1|pages=59–72|doi=10.1177/001789690106000107|s2cid=72771424 }}</ref>

On 16 July 1992 there was a riot in Hartcliffe after two men who were riding a stolen and unmarked police motorbike were killed in a chase with an unmarked police car. The disturbance lasted for three days. Police were stoned and many shops in the Symes Avenue shopping centre were attacked and destroyed. Around the same time, [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrat]] leader [[Paddy Ashdown]] claimed that health indicators in the area were comparable to those of a [[Third World]] country.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/no-go-britain-where-what-why-1370749.html | title = No-Go Britain: Where, what, why | newspaper = The Independent | date = 16 April 1994}}</ref>

According to crime statistics between 2017 and 2018, The Groves in Hartcliffe is considered one of Bristol's ten most dangerous streets.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Turnnidge |first1=Sarah |last2=Goodier |first2=Michael |date=2018-11-10 |title=These are Bristol's most dangerous streets |url=https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/police-crime-bristol-dangerous-streets-2193663 |access-date=2022-08-01 |website=BristolLive |language=en}}</ref>