Alan Morris

The Council has advised the University that it would not support the demolition of 29 Park Row. The University has now applied for permission to demolish the cheap industrial buildings behind 29 Park Row.

Stoke Park is a Grade II registered historic park, and a Conservation Management Plan has been written that aims to find a balance between protecting its important historic and ecological features.

Bristol Zoo has applied for planning permission to continue using land on the Downs off Ladies Mile as an overflow car park. The use of the Downs as an overflow car park cannot be allowed to become a permanent solution.

The Society supports building 198-room Jury’s Inn which will serve the emerging business and leisure uses in Old Market and the Temple Meads Enterprise Zone.

The Society welcomes the reuse of the redundant building, and supports the proposal to provide 93 purpose-built student bedrooms, although it would have preferred conversion to flats.

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.