Alan Morris

The draft public realm strategy offers guidance on how to spend a limited amount of s106 planning gain money to fund street improvements, arising from the redevelopment of the ice rink building as student accommodation.

The Society has commented on the November 2016 consultation for the West of England sub-region’s emerging Joint Spatial Plan and Joint Transport Study, which set out possible ways forward for the period to 2036 in the context of a projected housing need of over 100,000 homes.

The Council have been tenants of Brunel House from the 1980s, when offices were built behind the preserved, Grade II listed, neo-classical façade. Unite Students has recently asked whether the Council will permit a change of use to student accommodation.

THAT Group proposes to demolish 2-16 Clifton Down Road and redevelop a range of retail units, offices and cafe/restaurant space.

Bristol Civic Society supports the proposed new Redcliffe Quarter urban hub, but joins Heritage England and the local Design Forum in opposing an 18 floor tower that would dominate Bristol’s city centre skyline and harm the setting of St. Mary Redcliff.

Blackberry Hill Hospital is a brownfield site. The Society supports this mix of uses, the landscaping proposals and public access to the parkland. The Society has suggested the retention of the chapel, a substantial Victorian building.

The proposal is to demolish the current buildings to build 42 flats of mixed sizes and 3 split-level workshops to create an active commercial frontage to Wilder Street.

The Society supports the development of this site to build 20 serviced apartments. The Society opposed the first design, which would overdevelop the site and be significantly taller than an expired permission.

THAT Clifton Company Limited has proposed to demolish and redevelop the current building to create mixed commercial accommodation over 3 floors.

The Society’s suggestions about the development of land between High Street and St Mary-le-Port Church, which includes the dilapidated Lloyds Bank, Bank of England and Norwich Union buildings.

The Society supports the developer’s objectives, which are to improve connectivity to both Temple Quays and Cabot Circus with a high quality, cost and energy effective sustainable design.