Alan Morris

Bristol Council is implementing a new cycle route along Prince Street, which has been the subject of consultation. Where the cycle route meets the Centre at Broad Quay, there are changes to the public realm, which is the subject of a planning application.

The Society supports this development of 49 affordable units of flats and houses south of Morris Road, Lockleaze each with private garden space and with shared facilities.

The outline planning application for Blocks B & C has planning permission. The Society originally opposed the scale of the proposed buildings and the loss of the locally listed Grosvenor Hotel.

The Council will soon begin work to replace the Temple Meads gyratory with a simple light controlled junction at the crossing of Temple Way/Redcliffe Way and Victoria Street/Temple Gate. The Society strongly supports the Council’s ambitious plan to improve this blighted area.

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.