Forthcoming Events
Lost Rivers of Bristol: 19th November 2019 – SOLD OUT
An illustrated talk by Melvin Wood, Environment Agency - back by popular demand.
Former Soapworks Building
The developer First Base proposes to redevelop the site of the former Gardiner Haskins Homecentre between Old Bread Street and Straight Street, Old Market.
Annual Social Evening: 22nd January 2020
Following our tradition of New Year social evenings, we are holding an event next January in the Watershed.
Annual General Meeting: 2nd June 2020
The Annual General Meeting in 2020 will take place on Tuesday 2nd June at the church of St Michael on the Mount Without.
University of Bristol Library: October 2019 update
The proposed University of Bristol new library will be located on the site of the current Hawthorns building. The Society continues to support a development of a library on this site but regrets that it cannot support this proposal.
Building Liveable Neighbourhoods in Bristol
The report on an event organised jointly by Bristol Civic Society and University of the West of England as part of Festival of Future City.
BRI car park: October update
University Hospitals Bristol has appealed against the Council’s refusal in March 2019 of the planning application to build a multi-storey car park in Marlborough Street.
Broad Plain Public Real Strategy Consultation
The Society has responded to the City Council’s consultation which builds on the Old Market Quarter Neighbourhood Plan.
Balázs Győrffy
A blue plaque commemorates the life of theoretical physicist Balázs Győrffy, who fled Hungary following the Russian invasion in 1956.
Former Fire Station: September update
Planning permission was granted on the 23rd September on Planning Officer’s recommendation to approve with the Chair’s casting vote.
Bristol Royal Infirmary: Sept 2019 update
There is an excellent likelihood of a happy ending to this long planning story. Unite Students have retained Alec French Architects to make a planning application which the Society unreservedly supports.
Western Harbour Road consultation
The Council has published three options to simplify the Cumberland Basin road system which was constructed in an age that championed motorway-style urban road systems. The Society is critical of the current consultation.
Silverthorne Lane: September update
Square Bay, the developer, has now made a planning application for outline permission for plot 1 which is for an academic building for Bristol University.