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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Western Harbour roads 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.
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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.
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Ashton Court Mansion: August 2019 update
Bristol City Council has acted very quickly on receipt of the report from Purcell. The City Council will be appointing agents and marketing the Mansion for disposal on a long lease, probably 99 or 125 years.
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Avon Street student accommodation
The Society supports student accommodation on this site which is next to Bristol University’s new Campus. We cannot support the proposed building height of 14 floors.
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Former Fire Station: August update
The developer (Cubex) has filed revised plans that modify the height of two of the buildings in this complex. The Society considered the revisions; the original response remains unrevised.
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The Clean Air Plan options do not deliver till 2028! How to respond?
The consultation on the council’s transport Clean Air Plan started on 1 July and ends on 12 August. On 21 July, the modelling results for the two consultation options were published.
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Redcliffe Wharf: August 2019 Update
We support the Redcliffe West Residents’ objection that the extra floor would harm the historic view of Redcliffe Parade from across the Harbour.
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