The Official Bristol Development Site Summary

Updated: 18th July 2009

The capital of the South West Bristol was experiencing the highest level of development activity in decades and even with the economic downturn there is a healthy level of activity and construction. The summary provides information on both Large and small sites in the following categories: sites under construction, sites in planning, visionary sites and recently completed sites. In addition links providing further details on specific large schemes are available.

Large Sites Under Construction

Development - Harbouside
Value - £287 million
Size - 16.3 acres (6.59 hectares)
Developer - Crest Nicholson
Architects - Stride Treglown

Significant regeneration of the northern side of Bristol’s Historic Dock by Crest Nicholson. Activity on Harbourside is currently small, but planning permission for the purifier house on the site has been granted. The Crescent building is the latest building to be completed along with the harbour inlet. 1 and 2 college square, located on the Anchor road frontage are both under construction. The mixed use scheme is currently under construction and consists of approximate 12 major new buildings, including:

• Total mixed use floorspace of 1,093,281 sq ft (101,568 sqm)
• Approximately 500 residential units
• New Harbour inlet and marina
• 383,552 sq ft (35,633m2) of office development predominantly College Square
• 153,381 sq ft (14,494 sqm) Leisure and retail
• 50,206 sq ft (4664.2 sqm) Hotel
• Innovative public art light wall

For more info see: http://www.bristol-harbourside.co.uk/default.asp

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Development - Temple Quay North
Value - £300 Million
Size - 7.4 hectares (18.4 acres)
Developer - Castlemore Securities

Temple Quay North is a significant brownfield regeneration project near Temple Meads Station, extending on the success of the Temple Quay core site. The project has been developed in partnership between the South West RDA and Castlemore Securities Ltd. The site is approx 7.4 hectares (18.4 acres) and has been comprehensively masterplanned by URBED to provide an exceptional and high quality mixed use development comprising high profile corporate offices, residential, lively bars, cafes and restaurants and retail.

The masterplan was singled out for praise by CABE: "We felt that the overall layout was convincing and robust and that the series of converging vistas towards the Floating Harbour provided a strong rationale for the layout. Taken in the round, we think that the masterplan is very successful." The Temple Quay's masterplan has been feature in the Top 100 Projects in Regeneration & Renewal. The £300 million investment was rated 12th ahead of Sheffield's Retail Quarter, Manchester's New Islington and Bilston Urban Village Wolverhampton

A major expansion of Bristol Core Office District. The Temple quay Central section of the site is curretnly under construction along the waterfront. The Wye residential tower has topped out and the large Burgess Salmon Office Building is nearing completion. Overall the scheme includes five major buildings including a 12 storey residential tower and new pedestrian bridge which has already been installed. The site is still under construction consisting of:

• 654,618 sq ft grade A commercial floorspace
• 500 new homes
• 19,052 sq ft of retail
• 58,889 sq ft of leisure
• New harbourside bridge

For more info see http://www.templequay2.com/

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Development - Finzels Reach
Value - £255 Million
Size - 5.68 acres (2.3 Hectares)
Developer - HDG Mansur

Major waterfront redevelopment of a former brewery in central Bristol by HDG Mansur. The scheme includes the redevelopment of the listed generator building and a new landmark footbridge called the Mobius Bridge. Bridgewater house near the corner of Victoria street is the further progressed building, with foundations and basement parking almost complete. The site is generally in the demolition/foundations stage of construction and consists of:

• Total floorspace of 993,148 sq ft (92,300 Sq m)
• 402,183 sq ft (37,362 q m) of office development
• 399 residential units
• 87,155 sq ft (8096 sqm) of retail/leisure
• Public space, harbourside walk and Mobius Bridge

For More Info see: http://www.finzelsreach.co.uk/

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Development - Bristol University Masterplan
Value - £250 million
Size - 38,000 sq m
Developer - Bristol University
Architects -

The University Masterplan has outline planning permission awarded in 2006. Detailed planning is underway with a suggested landmark tower on hold. Applications for new facilities off Tyndalls Avenue have been submitted to the Council.

For more info see: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/Depts/Bursar/masterplan.html

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Development - Glassfields
Value - £65 Million
Size - 32,000 sq m
Developer - Royal London Assessment Managment
Architects - Atkins Walters Webster

32,000 sqm net office development on a brown-field site adjacent to Bristol’s inner ring-road and close to the floating harbour. A 1970s office building will be replaced by 3 new-build office buildings varying between 5 & 8 floors together with a 4-storey office with ground floor A3 use, all ranged around a new city square. The offices have been conceived to represent a new high quality threshold for Bristol offices. The design uses the best of modern materials and presents a dramatic fully glazed frontage to the corner of Temple Way and Avon Street, Bristol.

For More information see: http://www.glassfields.com/one_glassfields.html

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Development - Lake Shore
Value -
Size - 4.65 hectares
Developer - Urban Splash
Architects - Acanthus Ferguson Mann

Urban Splash acquired Imperial House in January 2005. Work has started converting on the Grade II Listed former headquarters for Imperial Tobacco into 1 and 2 bedroom apartments. A new complementary building is also under construction alongside. All in all, this will create 358 new homes, an exciting new community, in south Bristol.

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Development - Bristol Bus Station
Value -
Size -
Developer -
Architects -

A mixed use scheme currently under construction. The scheme consists of a new bus station, Magistrates courts and 12 storey key worker apartment building. The bus station and Magistrates Courts are both complete and the floor of the Bus station has subsequently been replaced. The remaining key worker element of the scheme is under construction.

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Development - Museum of Bristol
Value - £18.9 Million
Size -
Developer - Bristol City Council
Architects - Lab Architecture

Located on Princes Wharf the £18.9m Museum for Bristol will replace the old Industrial Museum on the Floating Harbour.The Industrial Museum closed it's door in Oct 2006, the site is now under construction and the new Museum should open in the summer of 2010/11. The scheme preserves the existing architectural footprint and dockside façade of the historic L and M sheds. The new museum will provide:
• 2500 square metres of new exhibition space over three floors;
• A stunning rooftop gallery with views across the city centre and access to a roof terrace;
• Education spaces and volunteer facilities;
• Engine sheds and workshops;
• A café, gift shop and conferencing facilities;

For more info see: http://http://www.bristol.gov.uk/ccm/content/Leisure-Culture/Museums-Galleries/the-museum-of-bristol.en or http://www.labarchitecture.com/

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Development - Cabot House
Value - £23 Million
Size -
Developer - Westmark
Architects - Atkins Walters Webster

Located behind Bristol Council House, Cabot House is a commercially led mixed use scheme. The site, which lies within a Conservation Area and is directly adjacent to a number of listed buildings including the Council House and Central Library. The site involves a demolition of existing buildings and car park to provide 8,500m² of office space, 25 new residential units and assorted A1/A3 units, as well as reinstating all the existing public car parking currently occupying the site. The development is currently under construction.

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Large Sites in Planning

Development - Paintworks
Value -
Size -
Developer - Verve
Architects -

Exciting mixed use development comrising live work units, apartments and workshop space. The development reuses a series of riverside victorian warehouse and creates a series on new courtyard and cobbled walkways. The development is centred round the Boco bar, bar and main exhibition space Phase 2 has recently been completed with new landmark office buildingon Bath Road and US style dinner cars. Phase three is curretnly in planning with consultation on the Masterplan undertaken late 2008.

The development is currently home to Endemol West makers of Deal or no Deal

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Development - Island Site
Value -
Size -
Developer - Temple Circus Developments (Formally Bass)
Architects -

The former George & Railway Inn and Grosvener Hotel. Recently a planning application has been refused due to height issues. The site is integral to the redevelopment of plot 6 Temple Meads, Redcliffe way and junction alterations to Temple Circus and provision of rapid transit in Bristol.

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Development - Redcliffe Wharf
Value -
Size -
Developer - Westmark
Architects - TBC

Westmark have been chosen as the prefered developer for Redcliffe Wharf. The complicated waterfront site has been home to boat building and last summer the Bristol Urban Beach. An application for the development of the wharf for a mixed use scheme, including market, affordable business space, residential office and boat building is pending consideration. Several rounds of consultation have recently been under taken (late 2007) and an application has been submitted in 2008. This does not appear to have been determined by Bristol City Council (summer 2009)

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Development - Temple Meads Diesel Depot (Former Bristol Arena)
Value -
Size -
Developer - Bristol City Council and SWRDA
Architects -

Mixed use development on a former diesel depot adjacent to Bristol Temple Meads. At the End of Novemeber 2007 the South West RDA pulled the plug on the Bristol Arena on this site. The site will still be developed and received a further £18 million for infrastructure improvements including and road bridge across to Cattle market road to enable development. There is currently no activity on this site following remediation. No planning applications have been submitted, it appear that the SWRDA are sitting on this site until the economy starts to recover so they can be in time to miss the boat again by the following downturn. I'm not bitter really!

Development - S-Park (Science Park)
Value - £300 million
Size - 51 acres ( 21 Hectares)
Developer - SWRDA
Architects - TBC

Bristol is to become home to a major £300 million science park. In 2004 the South West RDA purchased 21 hectares of land between the M4 and the Avon ring road at Emersons Green on Bristol's north fringe to deliver the first phase of a new science park comparable in size and scope to the best in the UK like Warwick, Cambridge, Oxford and Manchester. The science park is expected to make the South West even more attractive to business creating in excess of 6,000 highly skilled, high value jobs when fully completed. The site recieved planning permission in December 2007, but like other SWRDA site there has been no activities.

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Development - Southmead 'Superhospital'
Value - £374 Million
Size -
Developer - North Bristol NHS Trust/ Laing O’Rourke
Architects -

£374m reconstruction of Southmead Hospital in North Bristol followed by a downgrading of the other main North Bristol Hospital (Frenchay). Planning was approved early 2007 for completion in 2009, however the site has only just started. Completion and the budget have increased and been pushed back.

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Development - Hengrove Park
Value -
Size -
Developer -
Architects -

The Hengrove Park development will include housing, employment, a sub-regional park, a swimming pool/leisure centre and community hospital and will be closely linked to a further phase of the project, to develop an educational campus with housing and employment (Hartcliffe Campus). The pool complex will be built alongside the new South Bristol Community Hospital which has also received outline funding approval. Planning applications for the leisure and hospital uses have been submitted and it ihad been hoped that this new facility would be ready to open by the end of December 2008 or early 2009. However due to delays in appointing a contracter the site has yet to commence on site and is unlikely to be complete until 2011 at the earliest.

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Development - Wapping Wharf
Value - TBC
Size - 4.25 hectares
Developer - Umberslade (Wapping Wharf Ltd)
Architects - Associated Architects, Turley Associates and Gillespies

One of the last remaining large harbourside opportunities, Wapping Wharf seeks to provide a large residential lead mixed use scheme including new public routes from south Bristol and a new public waterfront square adjacent to the new Museum of Bristol. A masterplan has been given the green light by city councillors.The plan approved, covers the 4.25ha Wapping Wharf site, mostly owned by developer Umberslade with other land and buildings owned by Bristol City Council. It envisages homes, shops and services to link the Southville community with city centre developments.The outline consent covers 57,000m2 of development, reduced from the original proposal for 61,000m2. This will include around 590 homes, shops, restaurants, offices and scope for a 200-bed hotel. A number of listed buildings will be restored and a public square and pedestrian routes to the waterfront will be created.Umberslade will contribute 20 per cent affordable housing and £1.5 million towards building a city museum at the site. It has been working on the proposals for three years with Associated Architects, Turley Associates and Gillespies. The site is currenty being border up ready for construction.

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Development - Redcliffe Village
Value - £63 Million
Size -
Developer - Midshire Estates and Crown Dilmun
Architects -

A new urban quarter, comprising apartments and community and commercial facilities, intended to transform a rundown area and help re-integrate Redcliffe with the city centre.

The overall scheme comprises over 500 one and two bedroom apartments, including affordable units together with mixed retail space, office units and community facilities that include a crèche and health and fitness centre. The outline planning consent has been secured and seeks to ensure that all phases of the redevelopment are governed by agreed design and town planning parameters. Recently full permission has been awarded for a hotel, residential, office space on large sections of the site.

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Development - National Wildlife Conservation Park
Value - £50 million
Size - 136-acres (55 hectares)
Developer - Bristol Zoo Gardens
Architects - TBC

The National Wildlife Conservation Park (NWCP) is the first conservation-led animal visitor attraction development of its kind in the UK. Scheduled to open in 2011, the £50 million Park will be an innovative new conservation action centre. When the Park opens there will be a wide range of native and exotic wildlife from all the major animal groups. Although the species lists for each ecosystem, have not been finalised, the following animals are highly likely to be included: manatees, crocodiles, bonobos, okapi, bongos, Sumatran tigers, orang-utans, giraffes, zebra, warthog, kudus, hunting dogs, rhinos, brown bears and wolves.

The Park is due to open toblic in 2011, with construction taking place between 2009 and 2010. Around two thirds of the site will be developed by the opening date and over the next 15 years we will invest steadily until the whole site is developed by 2025.

For More information see: http://www.conservationpark.org.uk/

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Development - Bristol Rovers Memorial Ground
Value -
Size -
Developer -
Architects -

Plans to turn Bristol's Memorial Stadium into an 18,000-seat stadium for Bristol Rovers FC and Bristol Rugby Club have been granted. The work is planned to start in 2008 with completion in time for the 2009 season. The club said the revised plans also included accommodation for 500 students, a 112-bed hotel and a large restaurant. Bristol Rovers FC bought the stadium from Bristol Rugby Club in 1998, who they now share it with. This project appears to have stalled.

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Development - Temple Gate
Value -
Size -
Developer - Ballymore
Architects -

Located adjacent to Temple Meads station this major redevelopment provides a true mixed use scheme including offices apartments, retail units, community space, cafes and restaurants and a new public square. The developer Ballymore has full planning permission and was expected on site in 2007, they have subsequently tried to sell the site and are presently sitting on the site until an more favourable climate. The scheme consists of:

• 220 residential units
• 4,295 sq m of office space
• retail and community uses
• new public squares and private gardens

For more info: http://www.ballymoreproperties.ie/site/ba_frameset.php

Development - St Mary Le Port
Value - £150 Million
Size - 5 acres (2 Hectares)
Developer - Deeley Freed Estates
Architects -

Located at the historic heart of Bristol city centre, the proposals by Deeley Freed would see the creation of a new South West food quarter complemented by new homes, offices and public spaces and would also deliver major improvements to Castle Park. The development would help knit Broadmead, the old city and Redcliffe back together, providing an attractive focus for the area, drawing people from across the city to St Mary-le-Port. The recent town green application has been refused and it is likley that a detailed shceme will be worked up for a planning application 209/2010.

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Visionary Sites

Development - Bristol Port Company
Value - £500 million
Size - Deep Water Container Port

The Bristol Port Company is planning a large deep water port expansion to Avonmouth Docks. Apparently the port expansion will include:

1.2 km of quay with 10 post-Panamax gantry cranes with a maximum 67 metres outreach.
4 deep water berths (accommodating 16 metre draught vessels alongside at all states of tide).
An approach channel of 15 metres below Chart Datum, providing access to vessels of up to 16 metres draught on every tide.
Over 100 acres available for container handling and storage, with a terminal capacity of 1.5 million TEU per annum.
A link to existing rail network.


Futher infomration can be found at: http://www.bristolport.co.uk/

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Development - One Dove Lane
Value -
Size - possible 40 storey tower
Developer - Places for People and PG Group
Architects -

Just outside the City Centre along the M32 motorway in the St Paul’s area of the city. Initial consultation with locals done in spring 2007 and three different scenarios were put forward with one of them, the developers preferred scenario include a very tall (for Bristol) tower at between 20-40 storeys. The Dove Lane project continues to be developed towards a full planning application, which is expected to be submitted in 2008

For more info see: http://www.onedovelane.co.uk/

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Development - Bridewell Island
Value -
Size -
Developer - Urban Splash
Architects -

Urban Splash held a design competion for this development. This fantastic group of listed buildings includes a former fire station, police station, prison and magistrates courts, dating back to 1890 and forms an entire city block located in a strategically important position between the main retail centre of Broadmead and Harbourside. The site, which has laid derelict for a number of years will be converted into a mixed use scheme based around shops, cafes, restaurants, offices and studios. There will also be a small number of serviced apartments, but no flats in the conventional sense. These will be located as new pavilions on the roof of the fire station; hardly visible when viewed from the tight nearby streets but providing a striking symbol of change from a distance. The Court Yard will be the beating heart of the scheme bringing life to the rejuvenated Bridewell Island.

The proposals appears to have stalled with Urban Splash and a local art/community group have won a government grant to improve the buildings for community use.

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Development - Severn Barrage
Value - Billions
Size - 10 Miles Long approx
Developer - Government with Private Partners
Architects - ?

The Government have recently undetaken new feasibility studieis into the potential for a tidal barrage or lagoon across the Severn Estuary. The Estuary has the second largest tidel range in the world and is seen as a great opportunity to meet the UK's renewal Energy targets. The scheme would be located between Brean down near West-Super-Mare and Lavernock Point South of Cardiff. It is suggested that the schem could generate up to 5% of the UK's Energy needs, but the environmental implications are as yet unknown.

Development - Feeder Canal
Value - £280 Million
Size - 30 acre
Developer - RPS Planning
Architects - TBC

"A Run-down wasteland in St Philip's could be transformed into a thriving waterside community in a £280 million redevelopment. This artist's impression shows the modern glass- fronted offices which will be built alongside the red brick warehouse which lines the Feeder Canal opposite Feeder Road.

Property consultant RPS has drawn up a scheme to transform a 30-acre piece of land by the canal into offices, shops and homes. It estimates the site could provide employment for up to 2,000 workers and homes for the same amount of people. Under the scheme the majority of the buildings would be used for office space and its position next to the water raises the possibility of some workers being able to commute to work by river boat."

The scheme appears to be gaining momentum with Bristol City Council inclusion of the area for mixed use redevelopment in the Bristol Local Development Framework.

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Development - Frenchay Hospital
Value -
Size -
Developer - North Bristol NHS Trust
Architects -

In 2005, architects working for North Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol North and South Gloucestershire Primary Care Trusts developed two options for the community hospital at Frenchay, one making use of refurbished existing good quality buildings and the other a new build.

In light of the scale and costs of the new build option, and given the NHS’ concern to ensure that all proposals are affordable, the refurbished option was the preferred option for Frenchay. However, we and the primary care trusts will have the opportunity to review the affordability of a new build as detailed planning for the scheme develops. The hospital will be completed in 2013.

The key features of the refurbished design are:

The use of existing good quality buildings
The use of the restaurant and the receipt and distribution centre
Good clinical links with the Macmillan Centre and the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit (BIRU)
The opportunity to extend as required

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Small Sites Under Construction

Development - Bank Place (Formerly Temple Way House)
Value -
Size - 28,582 sq m
Developer - Carlyle Development Group
Architects -

Planning Permission for Temple Way House, (The Clerical Medical Building on Temple Way) for the demolition of existing buildings and construction of 2 no. eight-storey buildings to provide a mixed use development comprising 28,582 sqm of B1 office space and 148 sqm of A1, A3 and A4 floorspace at ground floor level, a new public plaza and associated landscaping, undercroft car parking (to provide 141 spaces) and servicing, access and ancillary works. This has been granted and demolition has been completed. The site is curretnly dormant while the developer seeks a pre let.
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Development - The Cathedral
Value -
Size - 83 residential apartments and 420 sqm of office space
Developer - Urban Creation
Architects - Atkins Walters Webster

Currently under construction by Urban Creation, this scheme provides 83 residential units and 420 m2 of office space within and in the curtilege of the Grade II listed Pro Cathedral. It is believe to be the first conversion of any cathedral in the UK and prevents the continued demise of this listed building at risk.

Internally the building will be sympathetically converted for residential and office uses, with the full volume of the existing building expressed in the aisles and transept spaces. The residential blocks externally have been designed to be subservient to the dominant bulk of the existing building whilst having design integrity of their own by employing layers of materials to create depth and interest to the elevations.
For more info see: http://www.cathedralapartments.co.uk/#home

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Development - Essense (Gloucester Road)
Value -
Size -
Developer - Lindon Homes
Architects - TBC

New apartments on Cheltenham Road, Bristol. Planning consent has been obtained for the development of 129, one, two and three bedroom apartments combined with the restoration of historic buildings. The development of Dovercourt Garage is situated within easy reach of the city centre on the A38. The site is currently under construction.

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Development- Broadmead Offices (Plots 12a & 12b)
Value - £65 million
Size - 360,000 Sq Ft (180,000 Sq Ft per Building)
Developer - Bristol Alliance
Architects - EPR ARCHITECTS

Plot 12 buildings are part of the major new Broadmead development in Bristol. They form the south side of the new space, Newfoundland Square and will therefore form an important part of the new arrival experience to the city. The buildings accommodate between them, the vehicular access to the main new department store car park located behind.

The massing has been configured to respect the department store at the west end of Newfoundland Square as the focus of the retail development. Also there is a need to cut through the buildings to express the car park entrance. The entrances to the offices have been located at the opposite ends away from the car movements and adjacent to the pedestrian crossings.

A sustainable approach to design has been adopted from the outset. Coring and fabric design seeks to maximise daylight while reducing solar gain in the workplace. Principal and secondary cores are located on the predominantly solid south facade with horizontal glazing offering views when seating and standing in the office areas. The solidity wraps around the ends and progressively fragments into a glazed facade to the north.

A horizontal expression of the floors is incorporated into the elevation to lead the eye naturally to the west to further reinforce the focus on the department store. The roof plant has been set back from the building edge in a free-flowing form, concentrated over the principle
cores to ensure the massing is respectful to the department store.

The building seeks to connect with the new square by leaning towards it while leaning away from the car park access. This has the added benefit of maximising accommodation on the upper floors and widening the pavement for pedestrians along the busy roadway. The site is clearly and ready for construction.

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Development - Great Western Dockyard
Value -
Size -
Developer - SS Great Britain Trust
Architects - Stride Treglown

Development of the dockyard surrounding the SS Great Britain. The development comprises residential and leisure space. The site is under construction, but appears to have slowed down now theframework is in place.

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Development - Redcliffe Civic Justice Centre
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The scheme is the creation of a new law courts building an public plas adjacent to St thomas church. The scheme is currenly under construction and has a interesting pink tinited stone cladding. The scheme alongside others has contributed towards a new footbrige linking King Street with Redcliffe Back.

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Development - Tulip Inn
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Developer -Premier Inn
Architects -Stride Treglown

The Bristol Premier Inn is a new 150 bed hotel development proposed on Lewins Mead to replace the former Hill House Hammond office building. Originally the Tulip brand which originated in the Netherlands were keen to establish a foothold in the city, However the site has changed hands and will now been a Premier Inn.

Above an A1/ A3 commercial unit, the hotel accommodation includes a bar and restaurant open to the double height reception and with views over the neighbouring historic St. James Park. A dedicated business centre insures the commercial viability of the scheme. Bedroom accommodation on the site has been maximised in a T-shaped footprint above the communal 2-storey podium and car parking provided in the neighbouring public facility.

Architecturally, the site fronts a hierarchy of three streets which evokes a slightly different design response in terms of frontage, scale and materials which the design succinctly addresses. An articulated and sculptural stone corner treatment creates a bold statement at the busy Lewins Mead traffic intersection. Elsewhere metallic panels, red facing brick and coloured render both enhances and responds to the existing context. The scheme has planning permission and demolition has been completed.

For more information this is the link to the planning Application: http://e2eweb.bristol.gov.uk/PublicA...ERTY&module=P3

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Small Sites in Planning

Development - O and M Shed
Value -
Size - 18,256 sq ft (1,696 sq m) leisure and residential
Developer - Cordwell Property
Architects -

An imaginative waterside setting for this mixed use residential and leisure opportunity, superbly located in the heart of Bristol opposite the historic St Mary Redcliffe Church and Queens Square. This waterfront development will consist of essentially 4 leisure units and numerous residential apartments, set within the original dockside shed which will be full restored to its historic dockside character, open plan space, excellent natural light, traditional materials and with views across the floating harbour. The creation of a new build which will offer the rare opportunity to create some striking and modern waterside space overlooking St Mary Redcliffe Church.

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Development - Huller House/Cheese Warehouse
Value - £6 Million
Size -
Developer -
Architects - Atkins Walters Webster

Huller House and the Cheese Warehouse are being redeveloped to form 42 apartments and 4 commercial units. Huller House is Grade II listed and is being fully converted with a new penthouse at roof level. The Cheese Warehouse has a historic concrete frame which is being retained and with a new external fabric, we have added a further 2 storeys at roof level which house penthouse apartments with terraces overlooking the floating harbour.

These buildings are the last warehouses to be renovated and converted along this stretch of the floating harbour which will see the completion of this desirable waterfront area.

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Development - Former Post Office Depot Cattlemarket Road
Value -
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Developer - Sheppardess Holdings for Media Office Space Ltd
Architects - Acanthus Ferguson Mann

Mixed use development comprising office, retail, residential, leisure and student accommodation in new and the refurbished former Post Office Sorting Office, adjacent to Temple Meads station. The 'creative quarter' for Cattlemarket Road proposes a series of new mixed use buildings that compliment and enhance the regeneration of the existing Post Office Sorting Depot buildings and their setting. Building on the positive aspects of the site, the design will increase the number and intensity of uses helping to create a vibrant sustainable development. The new buildings will provide Student Housing, Flexible Office Space and Studio Workspaces. The site has full planning permission but has not been implemented. No activity has been seen on site.

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Development - Mc Arthurs Warehouse
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Developer - Formally Quada Harbourside
Architects -

Difficult site that has recently been subject to arson attacks. The development has been the subject of protracted negotiations to secure permission. However now the site has permission it is unlikely to be developed due to escilating construction costs caused by elements of the design. It appears that the site may lie redundant for some time while a new planning permission is secured.

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Small Visioning Sites

Development - Concorde Museum
Value - £12 Million
Size -
Developer - Concorde Trust
Architects - TBC

New Museum for Concorde to be built at Cribbs Causeway. Concorde was partly built in Bristol and the very last flight of any of them was coming back to the city. Since then, it's been temporary housed in Filton with a temporary visitors centre. Money is still being raised to build a new permanent museum for it at Cribbs Causeway, a major shopping/leisure centre near the M5.

A long-awaited museum for Concorde could finally be a step closer. Bristol-based trustees of the supersonic aircraft announced they were applying for permission to build on land near Filton airfield. The cost of a new home for the plane that was grounded four years ago is put at around £12m.

If plans are approved, it will be a futuristic home for the plane and on land next door to the Mall Shopping centre at Cribbs Causeway. Money will be raised through sponsorship, grants and donations from businesses. The supersonic 200ft airliner will be the centrepiece of the attraction with exhibits, displays, a shop and cafe.

Concorde 216 made its final flight in November 2003 when it flew back to Filton where it was originally built. An application for outline planning permission is to be submitted to South Gloucestershire Council. If permission is granted the Concorde Museum could be open in three years.

Oliver Deardon, of the Concorde Trust, told BBC News: "There's a lot of work been going on behind the scenes and this will all come together in about two months' time when the outline planning application is submitted."

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Development - Portwall Tower
Value -
Size - 62,563 sq ft (5,812.1 sq m)
Developer -
Architects -

Portwall Tower will provide 62,563 sq ft (5,812.1 sq m) net approx of high quality Grade A specification office accommodation arranged over ground and five upper floors together with a secure basement car park.

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Completed Sites

Development - Cabot Circus
Value - £500 million
Size - 36 acres (14 hectares)
Developer - Bristol Alliance (Hammerson and Land Securities)
Architects - Stanton Williams, Chapman Taylor, Wilkinson Eyre

Cabot Circus opened on 25th September and is 95% let by floorpsace. The largest development site in the city since WW11. Cabot Circus has provided a major retail led mixed used scheme in the City Centre. The scheme included:

• Total retail and leisure area, including restaurants and cafes of 1 million sq ft (92,900 m)
• A four-storey, 170,000 sq ft (15,800 m) flagship department store, to be occupied by House of Fraser
• 37,000 sq ft (3,450 m) store, in Quakers Friars, to be occupied by Harvey Nichols
• A 100,000 sq ft (9290 m) Cinema de Lux with 3,000 seats in a 13 screen state-of-the-art auditoria
• 15 major stores and more than 120 new shops, 20 of which will be restaurants and cafes
• over 2,600 car park spaces
• new cycle routes, bus and coach stops
• new dedicated public spaces, including; an open square around the refurbished Quakers Friary buildings, featuring shops, restaurants and residential apartments and a new covered civic space in front of the proposed department store
• over 250 residential units, including 24 affordable homes in the heart of the city
• more than 161,500 sq ft (15,000 m) of office space
• 120 hotel bedrooms, in a building of more than 60,000 sq ft (5574 m)
• 280 student bed spaces, a development of 103,000 sq ft (9570m)

For more info see: http://www.cabotcircus.com/website/default.aspx

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Development - Broadquay Central
Value - £30 Million
Size -
Developer - Rex Developments
Architects - Atkins Walters Webster

The development comprised the partial demolition and regeneration of a series of buildings on a prominent site in Bristol City Centre. The landmark former Bristol & West tower was retained and re-clad as a 178-bed hotel and the remainder of the site was re-developed to provide 160 residential apartments and 2800m² of A1, A2 & A3 retail and leisure uses. The site is just being finalised by Rex Developments with the Hotel tower externally clad to blue glass that gets lighter towards the top. Occupiers of the retail units include Thai Classic and Subway.

For more info see: http://www.aww-uk.com/ProjectPage.asp?name=mixed+use&pgno=1&intprojectid=429#

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Development - Colston Hall - New foyer building and refurbishment
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Developer - Bristol City Council
Architects - Levitt Bernstein Associates

Bristol premier music venue now has a landmark entrance building on the centre. Clad in recycled brass, the new building provides a striking new addition in central Bristol. The site is recently been completed and opened summer 2009.

For more info see: http://www.colstonhall.org/redevelopment/news

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Development - Temple Back
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Developer -
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Office development in Redcliffe providing 123,000 sq ft (11425 sq m) of A grade office space on Bristol floating harbour. The scheme is now complete.

For more info see: www.templeback.com

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Development -Futures Inn
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Size -
Developer -
Architects -

Pat of the Cabot Circus Development. Futures Inn Hotel is located East of Bond Street South. The site is now complete.

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Development - Hartwell House
Value - £9.5 million
Size - 59,718 sq ft (5,550 sq m)
Developer -
Architects - Atkins Walters Webster

Located in a prominent City Centre location, 5,550m2 of new build office accommodation on a former car showroom site. The building, which is now complete features curtain wall façades and includes a double-height entrance area and the extensive use of Portland stone to the principal elevations.

For more info see: http://www.hartwellhouse.net/

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Development - St Catherine’s Court
Value - £8.5 Million
Size - 30,666 sq ft (2,850 sq m)
Developer - Ashfield Land
Architects - Atkins Walters Webster

A new office development recently completed in Bristol’s West End. St Catherine’s Court is located on the site adjacent to the former Pro Cathedral. The new building consists of five-storey office, with parking and ancillary functions at ground and upper ground floor levels. The net office area is approx 2,850 square metres with 14 secure car parking spaces in the lower level. The external elevations of this contemporary new building were constructed from a combination of facing brickwork, natural stone, colour-coated aluminium window, curtain walling and panelling elements.

For more info: http://www.sisk.co.uk/sisk/sisk/www/...8&id=248&wid=3

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Development - Old Bread Street
Value - £6 Million
Size - 53 residential units
Developer - Jephson Housing Association
Architects - Atkins Walter Webster

A development for Jephson Housing Association which comprises of the redevelopment of the Grade II Listed buildings, forming part of the Old Soap Works. The development provides 53 mixed tenure apartments for the Association with some new build elements and converstion of the existing buildings

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Development - College House
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Size -
Developer - Cubex Land
Architects -

Developement of office and Education space for the Bistol Cathedral School. The site is located ont he northern side of Anchor road, near the new college square element of Harbourside. The site is now completion

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Development - Unity Street Apartments
Value -
Size -
Developer - Carrot
Architects -

Development of the former Merchant Venturers College. The development comprises a range of residential accomodation including, Duplex and Triplex apartments.The scheme is now complete

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Development - The Paragon
Value -
Size - 76,000 sq ft (7,060 sq m)
Developer - Cubex Land
Architects -

Prime city centre office development of 76,000 sq ft on Victoria Street. The development was completed by Cubex Land. The scheme comprises a large office building with small retail units on teh groun floor fronting Victoria street.

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Development - Portwall Lane
Value - £25 Million
Size - 170,000 sq ft (15,793 sqm)
Developer -
Architects -

Now complete and comprising 170,000 sq ft of offices, close to Temple Meads Station and in the heart of the City's commercial area. The site, previously occupied by Dick Lovett Porsche Dealership, faces St Mary Redcliff Church and fronts onto the City Council's proposed 'Millennium Mile'' pedestrian link and cycle route linking Temple Meads & Harbourside. The design responds sensitively to its context, with office space organised around a glazed atrium. Active ground floor uses are incorporated on St Thomas Street and Portwall Lane.

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Development - Aardman Animation Headquarters
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Size -
Developer -
Architects -

Development of a new head office for the award winning Aardman animations on Harbourside. The site is under construction
Development - Symes Avenue
Value - £20 Million
Size -
Developer - W.M Morrisons
Architects -

£20m complete reconstruction of the shopping arcade in a very run down area of South Bristol. Completed late 2007. A new supermarket moved into the site and the old shops have been replaced and a new library/community building constructed. The redevelopment scheme included:

• A Morrisons superstore of 83,000 sq ft (7,711 sq m)
• New retail units totalling 12,346 sq ft (1,147 sq m)
• A community building to include a new library, with total floorspace 12,281 sq ft (1,141 sq m)
• A petrol filling station
• Car-parking for 536 cars, including 33 disabled spaces
• Landscaping/parking improvements surrounding Millmead, Middleford and Hayleigh House

For more info see: http://www.symesavenue.com/

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Temple Quay

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Temple Quay 3 - Temple Way

New office development in Temple Quay. The site was completed in early 2007

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Airpoint - Bedminster

Residential development of a former warehouse in Bedminster, South Bristol. The development includes lots of communal facilities including BBQ areas and a running track on the roof. The site was completed in 2007

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Templar House - Temple Way

New office development in Temple Quay. The site was completed in early 2007

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Queen Square Apartments

Westmark development on queen square, completed in 2007

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Blenheim Court

Student accomodation for unite. Public art light instalation changes colour dependat on the use of the front door. Completed at the end of 2006

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The Bristol Development Site Summary has been created in association with:

Dronkula, Schmeek, JJmacJJ, Gee31, Pickle33, Helium, Bristol Mike, Bristol Boy, Ciudad, Clarky, Red Source, El Greco, big is beutiful and Joeperez

This thread updates the original Bristol Development Thread. The link below leads to the old thread for those that are interested:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=246816

woo-hoo!

well done! Still missing but can be added whenever you feel like it are:

1) Hengrove Park
2) Southmead Hospital
3) St Mary-le-Port
4) Bridewell Island

They're all still in planning though so no hurry :)

Based on the figures we've got for all that lot at the moment theres £1.68bn in currently under construction developments, £636.9m in planning developments and a possible further £592m suggested in 'visions'. That's almost £3bn being spent in Bristol at the moment.

Ok, so that wouldn't host an Olympic Games, but that's still a lot of money floating around - and most of that is private money with not that many handouts from the Government or Council.

Nice!
Finzels Reach looks good and I also like Museum of Bristol development.

Heres few bigger renders of Cabot Circus :

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Great job PJ..... some more for when you get the time; i've put the pics in so you can easily grab the links.

Approved & waiting to start in 2007? - Mcarthurs Warehouse - the buildings around the SS Great Britain
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Wapping Wharf development - behind the new Museum of Bristol. Wapping Wharf
Regeneration & Renewal, 23 June 2006
Planning, 16 June 2006
A masterplan for a prime waterfront development at Bristol's historic harbour has been given the green light by city councillors.The plan, approved last week, covers the 4.25ha Wapping Wharf site, mostly owned by developer Umberslade with other land and buildings owned by Bristol City Council. It envisages homes, shops and services to link the Southville community with city centre developments.The outline consent covers 57,000m2 of development, reduced from the original proposal for 61,000m2. This will include around 590 homes, shops, restaurants, offices and scope for a 200-bed hotel. A number of listed buildings will be restored and a public square and pedestrian routes to the waterfront will be created.Umberslade will contribute 20 per cent affordable housing and £1.5 million towards building a city museum at the site. It has been working on the proposals for three years with Associated Architects, Turley Associates and Gillespies

Temple Way House redevelopment (the clerical medical site) -Temple Plaza
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Temple Back development - the one next to Finzells Reach on the waterside under construction
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CJC building - on St thomas Street by the tall white one on Victoria street under construction

The new proposal (the other day) 2 8-storey buildings for where the George & Railway hotel is on the traffic island outside Temple Meads
-Temple Plaza
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Redcliffe village - big mixed use in the middle of redcliife. seems to be moving forward now the industrial tennants have vacated "The largest scheme currently being developed is Redcliffe Village in the heart of the city of Bristol. This was the first mixed use redevelopment scheme in Bristol to obtain planning and consists of offices and apartments together with leisure, retail and A3 (Food and Drink) uses on the ground floor. The total area of development on this 2.3 hectare site is 58450 sqm comprising 600 apartments and 9800 sqm of offices. Sites 1 and 2 have now been built and a start is about to be made on Sites 4 and 5" http://www.midshiresestates.com/images/Centrobrochure.pdf
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The old royal mail sorting office the other side of temple meads - still in planning
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The 32-36 Victoria Street development will provide approximately 7,076 sq m (76,165 sq ft) of speculative office space and a ground floor retail unit on the Victoria street frontage
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Broadmead Offices
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Portwall Tower will provide 62,563 sq ft (5,812.1 sq m) net approx of high quality Grade A specification office accommodation arranged over ground and five upper floors together with a secure basement car park.
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Also don't forget paintworks - ongoing & super cool...

How about (& you might hate me for this) breaking the big developments down into the buildings..... for example the 2 new harbourside offices should be going up soon - buildings 5&6, the crescent will finish soon, the purifier house is now submitted for approval. Temple quay is going up building by building (ND3, ND4, ND5 ..... ) just a thought....

Thats all i can think of for now..... you'll wish you never started this!!

Good bit of news regarding the eco home development at hanham hall in bristol

"Seven developers were shortlisted this week to deliver the first site that will achieve the top level of the code for sustainable homes.

They are bidding to build the 150-home community on a site in Bristol, the first to be brought forward in English Partnerships' Carbon Challenge competition.

Artisan H, Barratt Homes, Edward Ware Homes, Gleeson Homes, Places for People, Taylor Wimpey and Urban Splash will go through to the next round.

The developers, chosen for showing how to achieve level 6 of the code and preserving the site's listed building. They will now submit more detailed responses to the brief for the former Hanham Hall Hospital site."

Also the SS Great Britain Project with all the new Buildings etc...

Theres lots to do and really shows how much is going on here... Its MAD!!! Your doing a really good job though so keep it up...!

Also, College Square House (Next to The Grovsner Casino)...

What about all the development in OLD MARKET???

Old Soap Works at near Gardner Haskins... Its on the AWW Website.

Those pictures of the new Broadmead Shopping Centre look great. I can't wait to actually really walk inside that place when it's finished. Elsewhere there are some awesome developments.

I'm also very glad to see that Buchanon/Redcliffe Wharf is being changed for the better with that Huller House development coming. The surroundings are brilliant but that one building that's there now and is going to be replaced is awful - absolutely awful!

Checking back for more later.

Essence (Old Dovercourt Garage).

New apartments in Cheltenham Road, Bristol.

Planning consent now obtained.

Essence on Cheltenham Road, Bristol is a development of 129, one, two and three bedroom apartments combined with the restoration of historic buildings.

The development of Dovercourt Garage is situated within easy reach of the city centre on the A38.

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Zenith.

New apartments in St George, Bristol.

A trendy collection of 68, one and two bedroom apartments, some with stunning views over the River Avon.

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Wrington, Bristol.

A collection of 2, 3, 4 and 5 bedroom homes in a variety of styles are currently in for planning at this existing development in Wrington, Bristol.

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Vibe.

New apartments in Waterloo Road, Old Market, Bristol.
A mixture of 1, 2 and 3 bedroom apartments, totaling 108, over 4 and 5 stories.

A mixture of 1, 2 and 3 bedroom apartments totalling 108 homes, over 4 and 5 stories. Located on Waterloo Road, Old Market, Bristol.

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Glaze.

New apartments in St George, Bristol.
A stylish development of 22, one and two bedroom apartments in the popular area of St George.

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Space.

New apartments in Bedminster, Bristol.
A stylish development of 44, one and two bedroom apartments in the popular area of Bedminster.

Please click here to view a selection of floorplans from this development.

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Yeah VIBE... Its going up as you approch Old Market from Lawrence Hill Roundabout on the let hand side... Its quite a big site... They have started construction and part of the development is to improve the roads around there...

Should be good.

Cheswick, Filton, Bristol. BS16 1QY

Coming soon! Anticipated launch date Autumn 2007.

Set in a idyllic countryside location yet a stones throw from the hustle and bustle of Bristol city centre.

Cheswick will consist of 2, 3, 4 & 5 bedroom homes, from contemporary apartments to 5 bedroom detached properties, whatever your style we'll have something to suit everyone.

The development is situated in an excellent location for both the city centre and South Gloucestershire. South of the A4174 Avon ring road and approx 3/4 mile from the M32, this new homes development benefits from superb access to the M5 and M4, with rail links to all major cities close by.

For more details on this new homes development, log on to www.cheswick.redrow.co.uk

Has anybody heard of this project by Redrow Homes???

Vibe?

...Vile...

I'd love to get some of the pictures of Ballymores Temple Gate development on here. It looks like a quality development which will transform the arse side of temple Meads. Theres a great flash sequence on the website but i dunno how to embed that into this thread - best i can do as follows....

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1101/1348722606_874835d623.jpg?v=0 http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1256/1347832665_1ec2a57273.jpg?v=0
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1234/1348730134_ad6b5ada5a.jpg?v=0http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1344/1348718966_d85117a726.jpg?v=0
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1204/1348715430_43db89c6e7.jpg?v=0

Anyone do any better???
http://ballymore.co.uk/site/ba_frameset.php

^^the bit by the river and bridge roundabout looks terrible, but i like the rest :yes:

It's not bad I suppose -well alot better than what we have at present - it should rejuvenate the station area quite well. When are they starting work on this?

Also, I noticed large signs are up on the boards surrounding the former IBM building stating 'GLASSFIELDS'. I don't know the significance of this, but hopefully it means the project is getting closer to being realised....

This one looks nearly complete :yes:

http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w139/aubertonic/Heritage%20open%20day%202007/other/DSC_0288.jpg

I noticed the other day that the old cinema on whiteladies road now has development boarding up. I knew there were plans to develop it but have not seen or heard much.

The name on the boarding is "Jessicas Bars and Restaurants"

Cant find any info on the net...anyone have any news?

Thanks for all the nice comments everyone, and all the posts of further developments.

I made a list before i started and got done what I could in the time. Like you say there is loads going on at the moment to get them all on with good summaries will take a bit of time. Hopefully won't take too long.

JJmacJJ, I thought about providing a breakdown of some of the larger developemnts, Harbourside, Cabot circus and Temple Quay North, but i'm not sure if it breaks the flow of the summary. I also though I might split the categories, e.g. under construction in two parts for small and large sites. That way I could start if the best developments and then move on to the smaller stuff further down the thead. What do people think?

Also is anyone has suggestions for better renders or photos for any of the developments let me know, so far I have just put up a small selection rather than everything!

Cheers

PJ

:cheers: excellent thread keep up the good work!

I thought I'd start the new page with a picture I took earlier today of the 'overcoat' of the B&W Tower:

http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x137/Bristol_Mike/Mon%2010th%20Sept/P1090771.jpg (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=519102)

:cheers:

Dear all, this today's article in the Evening Post

Bristol's waterfront regeneration is transforming the city centre. LUCY PARKINSON looks at how the area has changed over the years and what the future holds.

Bristol has 75 acres of city centre waterfront and more than five miles of public walkway along its docks and rivers.The revamp of the area has created two million sq ft of new offices with the Harbourside providing 290,000 sq ft of retail and leisure space on top of thousands of new homes.

Over the last three years the city has seen a massive acceleration in the number of city centre flats receiving planning permission and building work beginning.

Demand for more city centre housing is strong, according to property consultants King Sturge, which says the city centre has a non-resident workforce of 90,000 people.

It says the average apartment price has risen by more than 20 per cent in the last three years, with the average now being sold for more than £200,000 - a rise fuelled by an undersupply of housing.

Ned Cussen, regeneration and development partner at King Sturge, said: "I defy anyone to find another British city with such a superb waterfront offering.

"The massive regeneration that has blossomed throughout Bristol's waterfront has created more open space throughout the Floating Harbour.

"It has also added billions to the value of Bristol's waterfront properties."

Mr Cussen added: "More importantly, this massive regeneration has transformed Bristol, creating an entirely new city centre balance of work, rest and play.

"For many years the city centre was simply a daytime place for business.

"Today it is a far more vibrant day and night community combining private homes, student accommodation, hotels, offices, shops, tourist attractions and leisure outlets."

The area will also boast an impressive new leisure quarter, according to James Woodard, a retail and leisure specialist at the firm.

He said: "The entire Harbourside is set to become a major city restaurant and bar area, serving all the new residents of the waterfront accommodation and more than 12,500 office workers, all within five minutes' walk.

"This is a total transformation of Bristol's waterfront - which, for decades, had been a neglected area of the city."

As much as I find the new harbourside developments mediocre it gives a way better first impression than having acres of Derelict land.

I hope this means more respected (?) (cant think of a term) architects and firms come into the city...

Finally here's a few more shots.....

IBM building

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa272/Berbaking/DSC01873.jpg

Former megabowl site, Ashton

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa272/Berbaking/DSC01856.jpg

Broad quay from the south....

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa272/Berbaking/DSC01863.jpg

...and north.....you can see how large this development really is.

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa272/Berbaking/DSC01865.jpg

The crescent, Harbourside. Not sure I like these either - they remind me of some cheesy resort town like Benidorm!!

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa272/Berbaking/DSC01861.jpg
http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa272/Berbaking/DSC01859.jpg

The site for the future hotel. I believe the main trees in this shot will be pulled down.

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa272/Berbaking/DSC01872.jpg

Anchor store nearing handover.

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa272/Berbaking/DSC01868.jpg

Bit of a random one but anyone agree they should get rid of these either side of the road along with the bridge? Should tidy up the area around the roundabout...

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa272/Berbaking/DSC01866.jpg

And to finish a nice shot of the harbour.

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa272/Berbaking/DSC01857.jpg

I agree, I walk across this junction everyday of the week and these two building (there one on either side of the road) look a total mess. They haven't been used for years ,nobody would miss them it they were pulled down. The council really needs to do some tidying up around this area, especally once all the broadmead delevopment has finished.


Bit of a random one but anyone agree they should get rid of these either side of the road along with the bridge? Should tidy up the area around the roundabout...

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa272/Berbaking/DSC01866.jpg

Evening Guy's,

Please see link below for a new development this is happening just behind Old Market called the Vibe which has slipped through under the radar with out many people noticing. The builders are currently on site and have already laid most of the foundations.

Bristol booming - with off-plan sales to prove it
Linden Homes has a host of developments ideally placed to take advantage of the growing market with a large number of the homes being snapped up off-plan.

Vibe on Waterloo Road in Old Market is a vibrant collection of 108, one, two and three bedroom apartments and has already secured 43 reservations.


http://www.lindenhomes.co.uk/pandv2/press/press-w/pr-w359.htm

Cheers
Yogi

Yes it appears old market is being tidied up in general, which is rather nice as there are some great buildings down there, but this makes it even more bizarre that the above mentioned have not been demolished.

Great pics there Schmeek. I still don't think those apartments that have just been finished on Canon's Marsh are as bad as the vomit Baldwin Street ones!

Those things near the bridge either side are just stairs right???

Also the vibe thing i mentioned once before in this thread along with the other developments Linden are doing...

Old Market has really been cleaned up and the amount of construction theres is quite alot... Wonder what sort of shops will go into those brand new units??? Might become a posh nosh area!!!

Connections between Old Market to the rest of the centre are vital if the former is to flourish methinks, It should be easier however as the area around the roundabout isn't the only nor the quickest option (the area round St judes is, i think...?) But the Broadmead development may help (or not as it could suck life away...)

Now the bill boards are up for Glassfields has a new website:

www.glassfields.com

I reckon they must be starting on site soon.

Didn't thoses old stairs on the old Market rounadbout use to contain some sort of escalator? I think they really need to improve the links between old market and teh rest of the centre if it is to flurish. There is plently of development going on particularly on Waterloo Street and hobbs Lane. I'd like to see them really change the centre of the roundabout and also develop the castle Street area.

I will add some of those residential apartment developments (Vibe etc soon). I've restructure the summary into large and small sites. I think this shows off our best sites first. What do people think?

I was also planning of writing some more detailed posts of some of the larger developments etc Cabot circus, harbourside and Temple quay and linking them from he summary.

This is one Massive development... I didnt even realise!!! New school, shops etc and 700,000 sqft of employment space, Thats almost 3/4 of the Cabot Circus... its one huge development...

Government funding could provide the cash for a link road between Filton and The Mall at Cribbs Causeway.

The possibility could resolve an impasse between developers and community leaders in Filton and Patchway over a massive £50 million housing scheme at Filton airfield.

Residents are insisting house builder Bovis Homes builds a new dual carriageway linking the A38 to The Mall at Cribbs Causeway before starting work on 2,200 new homes and business space at Northfields.

They say bringing more than 6,000-plus people into the area will create even greater traffic congestion than already exists around the A38 and Almondsbury motorway interchange.

But Bovis Homes said it must be allowed to build and sell a substantial number of homes at Northfield, about 150, to provide the money to pay for the cost of building the new A38 link road.

However, the South West Regional Development Agency has £50 million available under its Infrastructure Fund to sort out exactly this kind of controversy - with the money being recovered from the developer at a later date.

Jan Woodley, Liberal Democrat councillor for Patchway, fought hard to convince a public inquiry last year that the traffic was already so bad that building more homes before any new roads were in place was unacceptable.

And earlier this year a planning inspector rejected Bovis' master plan for the huge 180-acre development and told them to re-think the scheme, which includes a new primary school, shops and 700,000 sq ft of employment space.

Emma Bone, the Lib Dem parliamentary candidate for the Patchway and Bradley Stoke area, said the Infrastructure Fund provided a way out of the planning wrangle.

She said: "South Gloucestershire Council needs to be quick off the mark and be ready to apply for funding as soon as the details of the scheme are announced in the autumn.

"Whether we like it or not, the Government has designated the greater Bristol area as a 'new growth point' so we must make sure we don't miss out on any of the benefits that go with it."

The South West Development Agency has set up the Infrastructure Fund to help address the timing issues in delivering public infrastructure to support sustainable growth in the growth areas in the South West.

The Northfield scheme also includes plans to widen the M5 to four lanes at junction 17 to improve traffic flows in the area.

South Gloucestershire has set aside the land at Filton airfield for housing and employment in its local plan.

Intersting application in at the moment relating to the two blocks on old market roundabout. I'm not sure if they have air-brushed the blocks out to give a better impression of how the "advertising Arch's" will look or whether the council do indeed have plans to demolish them.

They are not is use and are boarded up so there is no reason to keep them.

http://www.ukplanning.com/ukp/doc/Photo-4684485.pdf?extension=.pdf&id=4684485&location=VOLUME4&contentType=application/pdf&pageCount=1

It looks like it.

Yeah good find, it'll improve the look of the area.

The northfield site has been on the cards for a while. Another large housing extension near there is Harry Stoke. Crest Nicholson have been planning 1200 homes etc on a site north of UWE frenchay campus. Similar situation to Bovis at Northfield, just struggling to get planning permission!

To be honest there are loads of things like this at the moment because of the Regional Spatial Stategy. Bristol is to have a handful of really large urban extensions. Specifically between Whitchurch and Hicks Gate and Between A38 and A372 near Ashton. The latter is between 8,000 and 10,000 homes plus everything else that goes along with a development the size of a small town! Talk is there might be a dedicated public transport link using the old harbour railway line (industrial musuem/createcentre/Ashton Gate.

These developemtn are seriously long term though! Completed by 2026

I'm thinking that the glassfields development is looking pretty cool... much better than the original renders implied!!! Good little website too - these flash sites (Glassfields, Ballymore etc) look really good but you can't embed the images in ssc - anyone know how you could do this??

Perusing you're tour of Bristol thread Helium I noticed that theres a big crane in the university precint, a bit of research showed it to be a new 10.5m quid nanoscience centre.......

""Building work has now begun on the Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information, due to be completed in early 2008 at a total cost of £10.4 million. This building will provide a unique inter-disciplinary centre and one of the finest Nano-science facilities in the world, designed to keep Bristol at the forefront of research for decades.

This four-storey building will be highly distinctive. Firstly it will provide state-of-the-art specialised laboratories whose vibration and noise levels will be amongst the lowest achieved anywhere world-wide. It also has a unique purpose-designed environment in which a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research community drawn from science, engineering, and medicine can be fostered and thrive through stimulating interactions and the exchange of ideas. It will provide a focus of expertise for leading scientists and engineers from the University, the UK and across the world to work and interact.""

Theres a webcam for those interested..
http://spm.phy.bris.ac.uk/nsqi_building/Library_current_image/current_library.jpg

http://spm.phy.bris.ac.uk/nsqi_building/nsqi.html

Bit of an update on the 2 new offices approved for Cabot Circus (to be built by the M32). Work will start early next year, completion 2009

http://www.bd4jobs.co.uk/Pictures/Web/r/t/y/epr3.jpg


CBRE Investors buys Bristol offices
14:36 | 12.09.07

Strategic Partners UK, managed by CBRE Investors, has bought two office buildings in the £500m Cabot Circus redevelopment in Bristol for £11m.

The Bristol Alliance, a joint venture between Land Securities and Hammerson, completed the sale of the two seven-storey buildings to Strategic Partners today.

The two sites will comprise 133,000 sq ft of prime commercial space.

Andy Sayner, CBRE senior director of investment, said: ‘Cabot Circus is one of the highest profile mixed-use developments in the UK and offices play an important part in that mix. We believe there will be significant interest in this site, which will offer tenants a winning combination of city centre location, high specification design and excellent transport links.’

Detailed planning permission for the office blocks was granted at the beginning of 2007 and work is due to start on site early next year, with a scheduled completion date of mid-2009.

Intersting application in at the moment relating to the two blocks on old market roundabout. I'm not sure if they have air-brushed the blocks out to give a better impression of how the "advertising Arch's" will look or whether the council do indeed have plans to demolish them.

They are not is use and are boarded up so there is no reason to keep them.

http://www.ukplanning.com/ukp/doc/Photo-4684485.pdf?extension=.pdf&id=4684485&location=VOLUME4&contentType=application/pdf&pageCount=1

Where do you find this info from... I find it wicked that people are able to find such things on the net...!!!

The structures look cool... Its about time that they did somthing abit different in terms of advertisting instead of the boring BILLBOARDS!!!

Bit of an update on the 2 new offices approved for Cabot Circus (to be built by the M32). Work will start early next year, completion 2009

http://www.bd4jobs.co.uk/Pictures/Web/r/t/y/epr3.jpg


CBRE Investors buys Bristol offices
14:36 | 12.09.07

Strategic Partners UK, managed by CBRE Investors, has bought two office buildings in the £500m Cabot Circus redevelopment in Bristol for £11m.

The Bristol Alliance, a joint venture between Land Securities and Hammerson, completed the sale of the two seven-storey buildings to Strategic Partners today.

The two sites will comprise 133,000 sq ft of prime commercial space.

Andy Sayner, CBRE senior director of investment, said: ‘Cabot Circus is one of the highest profile mixed-use developments in the UK and offices play an important part in that mix. We believe there will be significant interest in this site, which will offer tenants a winning combination of city centre location, high specification design and excellent transport links.’

Detailed planning permission for the office blocks was granted at the beginning of 2007 and work is due to start on site early next year, with a scheduled completion date of mid-2009.

I really like this project and I hope its on the road side so that it can bee seen... The prject will complement Cabot Circus really well...

Yeah good find, it'll improve the look of the area.

The northfield site has been on the cards for a while. Another large housing extension near there is Harry Stoke. Crest Nicholson have been planning 1200 homes etc on a site north of UWE frenchay campus. Similar situation to Bovis at Northfield, just struggling to get planning permission!

To be honest there are loads of things like this at the moment because of the Regional Spatial Stategy. Bristol is to have a handful of really large urban extensions. Specifically between Whitchurch and Hicks Gate and Between A38 and A372 near Ashton. The latter is between 8,000 and 10,000 homes plus everything else that goes along with a development the size of a small town! Talk is there might be a dedicated public transport link using the old harbour railway line (industrial musuem/createcentre/Ashton Gate.

These developemtn are seriously long term though! Completed by 2026

I dont quite understand where they will build the road linking Cribbs Causeway to Filton...??? I think they are doing a consultation till 21st september @ patchway library if anybodys interested... They should start on the site after the roads built and that should not be that long away (As long as the planning goes right)...

Whats happening with south Bristol Ring road extenstion???

Regarding the GLASSFIELDS project...

Firstly the new renderings look much better (and are different) than the old ones... Anyway we could update the pics on the first post PJ???

Secondly anybody know what the Resi bit behind and Glassfields 2 will look like??? The pics we can see is Glassfields 1 and im sure they will develop the whole site together...

Brilliant find Red source. It would def improve the area, but I don't like the fact we still have to have adverts shoved in our faces. Obvoiusly the first thing they thought of when considering demolishing these two blots was the lack of revenue....Why can't we just have nothing there instead? Or just the arch....

Good news about the two office buildings next to the car park at cabot circus starting early next year. As I suspected, it seems they're giving the car park a chance to near completion before choking the area even more.

Here's a few comparisons I made from the webcams. The older pics are from April 15th, and the new ones yesterday.

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa272/Berbaking/comparison.jpg

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa272/Berbaking/comp2.jpg

Regarding the GLASSFIELDS project...

Firstly the new renderings look much better (and are different) than the old ones... Anyway we could update the pics on the first post PJ???

Secondly anybody know what the Resi bit behind and Glassfields 2 will look like??? The pics we can see is Glassfields 1 and im sure they will develop the whole site together...

Like JJmacJJ said I'm not sure how to get the images from the website for Glassfields or the temple gate development if anyone knows and can post them that would be great.

Gee have a look at the aerial or hybrid map of bristol on Atlashttp://atlas.freshlogicstudios.com/ I use this all the time to work out where stuff is. I believe the new road will run approximately from the royal mail depot on the A38 to one of the two roundabouts east of the M&S end of Cribbs Causeway (Highwood Road)

I particularly like the birds eye view function in the centre of bristol.

Despite this delay, I think this is actually good news - the fact that the council want to hand over more land for the scheme and that they've signed this 'Planning Performance Agreement' means that both the council and the developers are pretty serious about this.

http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=144913&command=displayContent&sourceNode=231512&home=yes&contentPK=18383590


600FT TOWER FOR ST PAUL'S HITS A DELAY

12:56 - 13 September 2007

Developers who want to build a 40-storey landmark tower in St Paul's have put off submitting a planning application until next year.PG Enterprises and Places for People teamed up to produce proposals to redevelop a five-acre site between Dove Lane and Newfoundland Way.

The scheme was due to be submitted to council planners by Christmas but will now not be handed in until 2008.

The reason for the delay is that the council has offered to hand over the Cabot Primary School site, in Halston Drive, for part of the redevelopment.

Dr Colin Bloch, from project managers RPS, said: "The Dove Lane project continues to be developed towards a full planning application, which is expected to be submitted in 2008.

"In June, the second public consultation focused on key issues and conceptual design options.

"Since then, Places for People and PG Enterprises have been approached by the city council and are considering the implications of adding the site of Cabot Primary School to the development.

"As this increases the site by nearly 25 per cent, we are taking some time to be better prepared for the next consultation stage, which is likely to be before Christmas, when we hope to offer some clear and exciting proposals."

A spokesman for the developers said he did not know how long the delay before submitting the planning application would be.

Developer PG Enterprises and property management group Places for People say the proposal, part of which includes the 600ft- high tower, Bristol's tallest building, will attract £300 million of investment to St Paul's.

The consortium wants to redevelop land close to the M32 with a mixture of 700 homes, shops and offices, together with community facilities, a hotel and open spaces.

It hopes up to 1,000 new jobs would be created.

The developers have signed a Planning Performance Agreement with Bristol City Council which is designed to smooth the planning process. It is the first of its kind in the country.

PG Enterprises' project director, Ian Walker, said: "The far-reaching significance of this regeneration project to both St Paul's and greater Bristol should not be underestimated and the agreement will go a long way towards providing a framework for our decision making."

Could be good news, but realistically I would think that more space available overall means that the same level of building space and public space can be achieved without having to build so high. Sounds like another reason for a council cop out.

The new £13.5 million community health centre for Yate is a step closer to completion.The three-storey complex is right on target for the summer 2009 opening set by health chiefs from South Gloucestershire Primary Care NHS Trust.

A detailed planning application has been submitted to South Gloucestershire Council.

The plans include a temporary home for the West Walk GP practice to accommodate the services while the new health complex is being built.

It is estimated that more than 34,000 patients living in the Yate area will no longer have to travel into Bristol or Frenchay hospitals for treatment for a range of conditions.

The centre will have a minor injury unit, outpatient consulting rooms, a GP surgery, and incorporate child clinics and physiotherapy rooms.

The children's centre will bring together child health experts, council social services staff and other child agencies to offer a much more joined up approach to child health and welfare.

The Yate health centre will be part of a network of community hospitals across South Gloucestershire, Bristol and North Somerset - a major component of the Bristol Heath Services plan.

Roger Pedley, project director for South Gloucestershire Primary Care Trust, said: "This has been a very busy month for the development of Yate services and the submission of the planning application for the new health and social care centre is a very important milestone.

"We expect the decision on the planning application towards the end of November and look forward to starting on site early in the New Year."

Demolition of the old surgery is due to get under way in January.

The trust is also spending £700,000 on expanding its team which will encourage patients to rehabilitate in their own homes, increasing the current intermediate care team of nurses, psychiatrists and support workers from 25 to 30 staff.

Amanda Cheesely, care services manager, said patients respond and benefit from the treatment and care they receive in the comfort and security of their own home.

The planning application should go before the council's planning committee next month and should receive the full support of its members.

I thought this was the BRISTOL thread?:?

Yate comes under the Greater Bristol Development area, surely we should discuss all major plans that come within that area.

If we take out everything other than the City and County of Bristol projects then some major projects will not be highlighted under the Bristol banner. Vast parts of Bristol do not come under the old city boundaries, in fact, in the not too distant future; the urban area of Bristol will probably be twice the size of the original city boundaries.

Just off the top of my head, these projects are not technically in Bristol;

Emersons Green Science park
Cribbs Causeway (Various)
Bristol Zoo @ Hollywood Towers
Large housing developments across the northern fringe, Northfields, Harry Stoke etc
Portishead regeneration
Expansion plans of both Rolls Royce and Airbus

I see Yate as part of Urban Bristol, and I'm pretty sure the majority of people that live there are either Bristolians or see themselves very much connected to Bristol.

I thought this was the BRISTOL thread?:?

Theres many areas that would be maybe not counted but for me if its got bristol in the address and also a BS (Bristol) postcode then that good enough as being part of bristol...

Other areas would include Avonmouth, Portbury, Pill, Yatton, Nailsea, Cleeve, Dundry, Kelson, Keynsham, Wraxhall, Failand, Yate, Frampton etc etc... oh BRISTOL INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT aswell... (I know alot of those areas are in north bristol and that because thats where I live and I can think of all the names off the top of my head but im sure that South, West and East bristol also have just as many areas that are included in Bristol).

These are all in a area I would call GREATER BRISTOL... its what they are calling the new bus network right? GREATER BRISTOL BUS NETWORK, well that network even includes areas I would really call BATH... Bristols growing and will keep on going... :)

Yes I know I was just in a state of shock! We rarely hear of anything that far afield on this thread. I grew up in Thornbury, which is similarly placed, and definately regarded myself Bristolian when I lived there. It's just that I've still got that small town mentality ingrained away at the back of my mind - Yate and Thornburyites don't get on, you see:) Well they didn't when I was at school anyway. Like a Manc/Scouse rivalry but on a miniature surbarban scale.........

Yes I know I was just in a state of shock! We rarely hear of anything that far afield on this thread. I grew up in Thornbury, which is similarly placed, and definately regarded myself Bristolian when I lived there. It's just that I've still got that small town mentality ingrained away at the back of my mind - Yate and Thornburyites don't get on, you see:) Well they didn't when I was at school anyway. Like a Manc/Scouse rivalry but on a miniature surbarban scale.........

:lol:

Please feel free to post any plans of developments that are happening in Thornbury... and as for that matter anywhere else in the GREATER BRISTOL AREA!!!

Plans to redevelop the former Royal Navy sea stores in Yate with a 250-home development could be sunk because of a shock dispute over who now owns the land.

The 12-acre site in Station Road was compulsorily purchased by the Government during World War II to build a sea stores in preparation for the D-Day landings

It was put up for sale earlier this year by the current owners, the Highways Agency, with a price tag of more than £10 million.

But the son of the original owner has stepped in and claimed he is entitled to buy back a third of the site - which already has plans for housing - because his father Hedley Newman was forced to sell it during the war.

Mr Newman was the boss of Newman Industries in the town which once employed around 3,000 people making electric motors and other equipment before the factory buildings were demolished to make way for housing in the 1970s.

Now his son Richard Newman, who has homes in Chippenham and London, has contacted the Highways Agency and said he wants to exercise his option to buy back the part of the site which belonged to his father.

Mr Newman, 57, a chartered surveyor, said: "I was first alerted to the land sale by two former employees of Newman Industries who contacted me.

"I remember father took me to the sea stores site and said one day it would come back on to the market and we should buy it back.

"There is a lot to do yet, I've got to prove my title to the land. I have two months to register my claim six weeks to agree a price and other issues.

"I have no idea yet what I want to do with the land, it is very early days yet. There are lots of permutations and I will be coming at this with a clean sheet of paper.

"Yate did a lot for my family and me and I would like to do some good for the town."

Mr Newman said he remembered working for this father at Newman Industries in the 1960s as a production engineer and was born at Poole Court which is now the town council's headquarters.

Robin Miller, spokesman for the Highways Agency, confirmed Mr Newman had put forward a claim after it placed adverts in newspapers in a bid to notify the former owners of the land that it was up for sale.

He said: "We have to notify any previous owners because they may have the right to buy back the land at the current market price.

"Someone has now come forward and that person has been put in touch with our solicitors."

The two other owners of the sea stores site was an electrical company which no longer exists and South Gloucestershire Council which has not exercised its right to buy back its part of the land.

Earlier this week, before Mr Newman's intervention, the Highways Agency had said it was in advanced negotiations with a developer who wanted to buy the entire site to build 250 homes.

That deal could fall through because of the uncertainty of what will happen if Mr Newman wins his claim of ownership.

Last year, the agency put forward a "concept statement" on how the sea stores could be redeveloped for housing and offered one acre of the site for community use as a recreation area.

Yate councillor Ian Blair said the town council had already called for a review of the land sale because it claimed not enough land was being made available for community projects.

He said: "I am very surprised the Highways Agency went this far and gained planning permission for the land before even searching for former owners of the site."

A little more info on Harry Stoke project...

http://www.greenissues.com/harrystoke/index.htm

Cabot circus has updated it's website with a whole new look!
Check it out guys.

Yeah it's not really much of an improvement is it?

Alright my fellow severnside chums?

What do you all think of cabots circus? It is undoubtedly an improvement on what was there before...that is not in doubt, but I'm interested to know whether you think that it is a big enough development, (bearing in mind that most cities are undergoing these large improvements in their city centres) what you think of the name, and what you think of the big glass roof (strange or spectacular?) I'm also interested in what you think of the long term prospects given that Cribbs aint going anywhere and is even expanding, or am I wrong in that regard?

As you may know there is a similar scheme going on in the centre of Cardiff at the mo, so I'm quite interested to know the differences between the two, the good and bad bits of each development, and which development, if any is superior.

cheers

Interesting planning application received by the council.....not so much for its size but its location and what its replacing.......

http://www.ukplanning.com/ukp/doc/Drawing-4797891.pdf?extension=.pdf&id=4797891&location=VOLUME4&contentType=application/pdf&pageCount=1

Application for demolition of Bathroom centre on anchor road and development of 4-storey office block by the same developers that are involved with the College Square House and Paragon developments.

Cant see there being an issue with this considering the current building stickis out like a sore thumb from all the Harbourside activity.

Alright my fellow severnside chums?

What do you all think of cabots circus? It is undoubtedly an improvement on what was there before...that is not in doubt, but I'm interested to know whether you think that it is a big enough development, (bearing in mind that most cities are undergoing these large improvements in their city centres) what you think of the name, and what you think of the big glass roof (strange or spectacular?) I'm also interested in what you think of the long term prospects given that Cribbs aint going anywhere and is even expanding, or am I wrong in that regard?

As you may know there is a similar scheme going on in the centre of Cardiff at the mo, so I'm quite interested to know the differences between the two, the good and bad bits of each development, and which development, if any is superior.

cheers


I think Cabot Circus will stop Bristol City Centre from getting worse, however alongside all the other city centres getting redeveloped, it'll be lucky if it really will propel Bristol back into the top ten retail centres in the UK (which is something that they claim it will do).

As for the name? I, and probably everyone else in Bristol will still just call it either 'the Centre' or 'Broadmead'. At least they didn't follow Cardiff's example and just call it Broadmead 2!

With all shopping centres, they all live and die by the shops that move in. With Harvey Nicks coming to Bristol (and choosing it over Bath which, traditionally, would've been a more 'Harvey Nicks' sort of area) then I think that's a pretty good deal. We almost got Selfridges as well, but just before they signed they got bought by a canadian company who cancelled all expansion plans and decided to just concentrate on their current stores instead. Looking at the confirmed tenants already you've got shops like Zara, Bershka, Reiss coming to Bristol, and I think the South West for the first time and allegdely one of the most delux cinemas in the country with Cinema de Lux, and the centre is now 70% with still a year to go before it's finished.

The leisure stuff is just as important as well and they've spent a lot of time sorting that out as well. With a Raymond Blanc eaterie and the whole plaza around Quakers Friars I think they've got that covered as well.

As for the big glass dome, I'm pretty sure there was a law passed a few years back that made it a legal requirement that all new large developments must now have a glass dome feature - it seems that every development has them these days. Still, it keeps the rain off.

Remember that Cabot Circus is just 1 development of Broadmead - there's 2 others at the other end (St Mary le Port and Bridewell Island) that should be getting off the ground when this one finishes and will probably take us up to 2012 but when they're all done, I think Broadmead will actually be far better, and actually far bigger than Cribbs Causeway and with a bit more character and life to it.

About the Cardiff scheme, I don't really have that much of an opinion on it - I personally would've liked them to have made a feature of the numerous canals that apparently run under the centre but I've not really researched it too much. Who's moving in there and when is it opening?

EDIT: Dronkulas might make alot more sense...

Cheers for the replies everyone. I think what interested me stemmed from the fact that Cabots Circus is costing 35% less than the stunningly original named 'St davids 2' scheme in Cardiff. The listed figures are £500m v £675m. Looking at the scheme particulars though, there is little differences in size although St Davids 2 is marginally bigger in most respects.

This simply led me to wonder why there was such a difference in costs (I know these figures cant be relied upon 100%) and whether Cabots was being built a bit 'on the cheap'? and what you guys thought of it.

Personally I know Bristol well, and I agree that of the two schemes this will improve Bristol more, simply because retail provision in Bristol city centre has further to climb. I am unsure of the glass roof. It may look stunning, it may not. I'll be interested to see it.. My other concern is still Cribbs causeway, and that it wont want to give up it's customers easily, and that bristol city centre is still not the easiest place to get to public transport wise. (ie, many people would not want to lug bags of shopping over to temple meads) I agree though that the overriding success of the schemes will be in it's occupant retailers. Interesting times anyway. All the best!

Cheers for the replies everyone. I think what interested me stemmed from the fact that Cabots Circus is costing 35% less than the stunningly original named 'St davids 2' scheme in Cardiff. The listed figures are £500m v £675m. Looking at the scheme particulars though, there is little differences in size although St Davids 2 is marginally bigger in most respects.

This simply led me to wonder why there was such a difference in costs (I know these figures cant be relied upon 100%) and whether Cabots was being built a bit 'on the cheap'? and what you guys thought of it.

Personally I know Bristol well, and I agree that of the two schemes this will improve Bristol more, simply because retail provision in Bristol city centre has further to climb. I am unsure of the glass roof. It may look stunning, it may not. I'll be interested to see it.. My other concern is still Cribbs causeway, and that it wont want to give up it's customers easily, and that bristol city centre is still not the easiest place to get to public transport wise. (ie, many people would not want to lug bags of shopping over to temple meads) I agree though that the overriding success of the schemes will be in it's occupant retailers. Interesting times anyway. All the best!


There will be no expansion of Cribbs in the foreseeable future...probably ever. National planning policy on retail (PPS6) prohibits the building or expansion of regional shopping centres. Broadmead has everything to gain and nothing to loose. If the owners of Cribbs wanted to expand the shopping centre they would have to prove that it would not detrimentally impact on the City Centre and that there were exceptional circumstances that justified departing from national policy.....this would be impossible to do.

Cheers for the replies everyone. I think what interested me stemmed from the fact that Cabots Circus is costing 35% less than the stunningly original named 'St davids 2' scheme in Cardiff. The listed figures are £500m v £675m. Looking at the scheme particulars though, there is little differences in size although St Davids 2 is marginally bigger in most respects.

This simply led me to wonder why there was such a difference in costs (I know these figures cant be relied upon 100%) and whether Cabots was being built a bit 'on the cheap'? and what you guys thought of it.

Personally I know Bristol well, and I agree that of the two schemes this will improve Bristol more, simply because retail provision in Bristol city centre has further to climb. I am unsure of the glass roof. It may look stunning, it may not. I'll be interested to see it.. My other concern is still Cribbs causeway, and that it wont want to give up it's customers easily, and that bristol city centre is still not the easiest place to get to public transport wise. (ie, many people would not want to lug bags of shopping over to temple meads) I agree though that the overriding success of the schemes will be in it's occupant retailers. Interesting times anyway. All the best!

Well there are certainly a lot of similarities between the schemes and others schemes throughout the country also, for example Nottingham: it seems every city are getting their own super shopping centre! I'm not sure that Cabot's is being built on the cheap, but it won't be top dollar either, that's for sure. I think most is middle of the road, with a few expensive features thrown in here and there to 'dress it up' nice. I'm no expert on the figures but i'd assume one way of explaining the difference in price is the rise of construction costs. I know it's only two years behind Cabot's, but a rise of, say 10%, is £50m. That's just a guess. I had a look at St. Davids 2 today whilst in Cardiff, and I think they are of similiar size. I think the fact Cabot's has the new dual carriageway splitting through a large portion of it(separating the main retail area from the student accom, hotel, 2600 space car park & office blocks) makes it appear smaller on paper than it actually is. This I am a little confused about - Cabot's is 1,000,000 sq ft, and 36 acres. But on the st. Davids home page it says 1.4m sq ft, but in the St. Davids overall summary it says 967,500 sq ft. So which is correct? Anyway, I suppose we won't really know what the reasons are for difference in costings until both are complete and we can judge which is the most desirable/successfull. I think Cabot's has the edge with the big names and landmark location. But St. Davids has a huge amount of potential also so will be interesting to see what we both get.

Cheers for the replies everyone. I think what interested me stemmed from the fact that Cabots Circus is costing 35% less than the stunningly original named 'St davids 2' scheme in Cardiff. The listed figures are £500m v £675m. Looking at the scheme particulars though, there is little differences in size although St Davids 2 is marginally bigger in most respects.

This simply led me to wonder why there was such a difference in costs (I know these figures cant be relied upon 100%) and whether Cabots was being built a bit 'on the cheap'? and what you guys thought of it.

Personally I know Bristol well, and I agree that of the two schemes this will improve Bristol more, simply because retail provision in Bristol city centre has further to climb. I am unsure of the glass roof. It may look stunning, it may not. I'll be interested to see it.. My other concern is still Cribbs causeway, and that it wont want to give up it's customers easily, and that bristol city centre is still not the easiest place to get to public transport wise. (ie, many people would not want to lug bags of shopping over to temple meads) I agree though that the overriding success of the schemes will be in it's occupant retailers. Interesting times anyway. All the best!

The plus side is that the city has a significant large inner city population :yes:

I think the centre is/ will have a hard time attracting those who are very car reliant, though this isn't always a bad thing I suppose...

But thats the advantage of the centre, it has numerous transport links. plus if you didn't want to walk to temple meads you could take the 8/9 bus which goes in a loop around the centre (not the best thing but its very reliable)

its nigh impossible to get to Cribbs causeway without a car unless you live close, Even Parkway train station is about a mile and a half away and you have to navigate a rather un direct route plus an unfriendly dual carriageway.

I can't speak for everyone, but the malls reputation has waned alot since it first opened, unless you live in the North west area of the city, its just not easy to get The Mall.

As a south Bristolian, grew up in Brislington (south east) now living in Hartcliffe (which is, ermm, interesting, sometimes) I can say I've only actually been to Cribbs Causeway once in my life. And that was actually because I was meeting a friend who worked at Aztec West and it was easier for me to get the bus to Cribbs Causeway rather than the his office.

Ok it was midweek and in the afternoon, put the place was deserted. Broadmead is busy throughout the day, 7 days a week. I was actually also quite underwhelmed by the whole experience. People had been saying how good the place was but the main mall wasn't anywhere near as big as I thought it would be. Although, to be fair, when I lived in London a few years back and did go to Bluewater and Lakeside which really are huge shopping malls.

Even with a car, getting to the mall can be at times (esp. around Christmas) harder than getting to Broadmead. The main factor that the mall has going for it is that everything is under 1 roof. With Broadmead, large portions of it will still be outside.

^^or halfway across town... :shifty:

Having been to some of the largest malls in the world, The mall seems like a corner shop precinct by comparison,
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Ah, Glorious Hartcliffe, please do tell me sir, do you (and maybe perhaps with a dear lady friend) stroll along the grand Symes Av- *ahem* promenade during these balmy autumny nights?

So you live in the dusty tumbleweedy wilds of South (westerly) Bristol, what happened to make you end up there? (you were in wales weren't you?) and is the UN warning accurate ;)

^^or halfway across town... :shifty:

Having been to some of the largest malls in the world, The mall seems a corner shop precinct by comparison,
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Ah, Glorious Hartcliffe, please do tell me sir, do you (and maybe perhaps with a dear lady friend) stroll along the grand Symes Av- *ahem* promenade during these balmy autumny nights?

So you live in the dusty tumbleweedy wilds of South (westerly) Bristol, what happened to make you end up there? (you were in wales weren't you?) and is the UN warning accurate ;)

Symes Avenue - yep I used to always promenade along there. Normally as quickly as possible, maybe even call it a 'run' through it.

Why did my dad move there? Basic economics. He sold his own place in a fairly respectable although not exactly properpous area (Brislington) but didn't want to get a new mortgage for a new place. There's not many areas in Bristol where you can still buy houses cheaply.

What's frustrating about the area is that walking around it you can see all the bad planning decisions that were made while it was being built and if someone had thought about it a bit more, it could actually be an OK area to live in.

For example, along all the roads there's a 3m wide grass verge and then the footpaths run on the other side of it next to the houses. Ok, so grass is good right? Wrong. Because the roads are so narrow, it's not really practical to park your car on them, which means cars park on the grass verge so that becomes a mud pit. Normally I'm all for green stuff and not tarmacing over grass for carparks, but this is one area where it would really make a difference and would generally tidy up the estate.

Another example is just up the road from the house. There's a sort of green with a few trees along the edge of it. It's about the size of half a football pitch so it's not really big enough to be called a 'park' for kids to play in. However, it could've been a nice focal point for the neighbourhood if there were other neighbourhood resouces alongside it. If the church had been put next to it, rather than 100m up the road and if the pub and the few shops in the area where there as well, instead of 50m along a different road, it would have given the area a more 'villagey' sort of feel and may have encouraged the residents to have a bit of pride in the estate.

^^or halfway across town... :shifty:

Ah, Glorious Hartcliffe, please do tell me sir, do you (and maybe perhaps with a dear lady friend) stroll along the grand Symes Av- *ahem* promenade during these balmy autumny nights?

So you live in the dusty tumbleweedy wilds of South (westerly) Bristol, what happened to make you end up there? (you were in wales weren't you?) and is the UN warning accurate ;)

Haha I love reading some of your stuff Helium - It has to be read in the voice of Stuart Hall!

Hey maybe we aren't using enough of the space in our city to it's full potential.....:)

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/826361/train_drives_through_a_bangkok_market/

Hey maybe we aren't using enough of the space in our city to it's full potential.....:)

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/826361/train_drives_through_a_bangkok_market/

I actually saw this sort of thing happening when I went to bangkok 3 months ago...

Pretty wicked...!

Yes I had similiar experiences when I travelled into Bangkok on the train a few years back - I was amazed to see that the tracks cross main roads, so when they have a level crossing(and most are 'level' over there), they cross the equivalent of a trunk road or even a motorway!! I remember looking out the window and seeing four lanes on either side completely packed with cars, tuk tuks bikes and taxis as far as the eye could see. Imagine the rail bridge that crosses the M32 being a level crossing instead and the carnage we'd have at rush hour!

Haha I love reading some of your stuff Helium - It has to be read in the voice of Stuart Hall!

certainly!

you're from south Brizzle are't cha? Brislington? :dunno:


EDIT: Ok that sound really psycopathic/stalkerish

Totterdown way me babber

close enough :shifty: :runaway:

Another resi development i came across...

http://www.urbisdev.co.uk/microsites/wellesleigh%20mews/index.html

looks higher quality than the crap most developers put out, although it looks too cheapo americana motel-esque to me.

Yesterday's Evening Post had a story about Lakeshore getting over 1000 inquiries already for the 400 flats available and the official marketing suite doesn't open until early Oct.

The marketing suite is going to be in the City Centre - at the Bridewell Island site (also an Urbansplash development).

I'm not in Bristol this weekend - but anyone else around and want to pop down to take some pictures for us to enjoy?

http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=144913&command=displayContent&sourceNode=144913&contentPK=18451993&folderPk=83726
CHANCE TO STROLL STREETS OF NEW SHOPPING CENTRE
10:40 - 21 September 2007

People will have the chance to walk the newly-created streets of Cabot Circus this weekend.There is just one year to go before the £500 million extension to Broadmead shopping centre is completed.

Most of the heavy construction work has been finished and visitors can see the new shopping quarter taking shape tomorrow and on Sunday from 9am to 4pm.

Visitors will be given a free guided tour of the construction site by a member of the Bristol Alliance project team. They will have the opportunity to see the shops under construction and the dome structure supporting the creation of the curved glass roof.

Computer-generated images will show what the area will look like when finished.

Bristol Alliance project director Bob De Barr said: "Having worked on this project for many years since its inception, it is incredibly exciting to have reached the milestone of one year until opening. The city centre has changed beyond recognition over the last two years and we are delighted to be able to welcome the people of Bristol on to the site to see for themselves the shape of things to come."

As well as witnessing first hand the transformation of the area, visitors will be entertained by performers from Bristol-based Cirque Bijou.

People who would like to go on a tour can register outside Costa Coffee opposite River Island on Broadmead East.

Safety equipment will be supplied but visitors are required to wear sensible, flat-heeled shoes and are also encouraged to travel light as any bags will have to be searched prior to site tours for security reasons.

For further information about the open weekend, visit the Bristol Alliance Information Centre at 21 Penn Street in Broadmead or log on to http://www.cabotcircus.com

Shouldnt the Bristol Internation Airport plans also be on the opening page???

Also does the south Bristol Ring Road expansion count as development???

I'm not in Bristol this weekend - but anyone else around and want to pop down to take some pictures for us to enjoy?

http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=144913&command=displayContent&sourceNode=144913&contentPK=18451993&folderPk=83726

I'll try to get down there tommorrow :yes: just hope they allow cameras :(

Work has started on the redevelopment of Southmead Hospital, with demolition work on old buildings now under way on the site.

To make way for the new academic centre and pathology building, the four-storey Tyndall's House is being knocked down.

The two new buildings are a separate project from the £374 million new hospital but signal the start of five years of work on the site to create state-of-the-art facilities.

Bristol City Council has now granted North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) full planning permission after several changes were made to the initial approved application.

Construction will begin next month, with Laing O'Rourke taking control of the project. The academic centre and pathology buildings are expected to be completed by summer 2009, ready for the new hospital works to start in the autumn.

The view from Monks Park Avenue will change as the building disappears and the new ones start to take shape over the coming months.

Tricia Down, the trust's deputy director of projects, said: "The demolition of Tyndall's House and the work on these two buildings are the first tangible signs of progress towards our goal of a new hospital at Southmead to serve the populations of north Bristol and South Gloucestershire and further afield."

In the place of Tyndall's House will be a 6,000sq m academic centre to house NBT's training and education facilities and the research activities currently undertaken at Southmead by Bristol University and a 5,000sq m pathology building.

The new building will provide an advanced blood science and genetics facility and a fully automated laboratory for non-specialist blood science work that will be backed up by a series of specialist laboratories.

In addition, it provides laboratory space for the regional genetics services provided by NBT.

The new facilities will replace the Lewis Laboratories as well as older parts of pathology across both NBT sites. A landscaped square will link both buildings.

Ms Down said: "Although these new buildings are not part of the private finance initiative scheme, they are the first new buildings and an important part of the overall development of the Southmead Hospital site.

"As with the new hospital, we are aiming for well-designed, light and airy buildings that staff will enjoy working in."

Three private finance initiative bidders were chosen last month to compete to fund, build and maintain the new acute hospital at Southmead.

The three companies are Carillion, Skanska and Catalyst, and they will now work with the trust to draw up possible designs.

At Christmas the bidders' proposals will be evaluated and two bidders will be chosen to continue the process.

The first properties are about to go on sale at the long-awaited housing development at the former Hortham Hospital site at Almondsbury.The planning battle to build on the former hospital site lasted more than 10 years, resulted in two public inquiries and the intervention of the former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, who tried to halt the development.

Properties will finally go on sale the weekend after next, ranging from starter homes to five-bed executive style houses. Barratt Homes will unveil prices of the properties on Saturday, September 29.

The site is next to the M4/M5 Almondsbury interchange and is surrounded by unspoilt parkland.

Work is currently under way on a new traffic light-controlled junction at Hortham Lane and the A38 to help with traffic flows.

Louise Ware, sales director for Barratt Homes, said: "We know there is tremendous pent-up demand for homes at Hortham and we are delighted that we can finally set a date for people to see what we have planned in details.

"Construction work is now well under way, where a mix of apartments and homes are set to be built together with two, three, four and five-bed properties."

The first show home for the new Hortham Village of one-bed apartments to five-bed homes is set to be completed by the end of the month.

Around 140 homes will cover the area of the old hospital wards and administration building.

The surrounding parkland will remain as open space.

Work at the site has started and the former hospital building has been knocked down to make way for the new homes.

Barratt says the latest green technologies will be used in the new homes, including wind and solar power.

The homes will also feature recycling storage areas, water efficient sanitation and energy-efficient equipment.

Prospective buyers will have to register an interest in buying one of the homes at the site from September 29.

Planning Application has been submitted for the TQ Central Riverfront, including the 14 storey eliptical appartment tower next to the RBS complex.

http://www.bristol.gov.uk/item/committeecontent.html?ref=wa&code=wa001&year=2007&month=09&day=26&hour=14&minute=00

http://www.templequay2.co.uk/images/3.jpg

Hope this link works...scroll down to the table and click on link to TQ.

Just noticed its only an outline application....but still seems quite detailed to me.

Planning Application has been submitted for the TQ Central Riverfront, including the 14 storey eliptical appartment tower next to the RBS complex.

http://www.bristol.gov.uk/item/committeecontent.html?ref=wa&code=wa001&year=2007&month=09&day=26&hour=14&minute=00

http://www.templequay2.co.uk/images/3.jpg

Hope this link works...scroll down to the table and click on link to TQ.

Just noticed its only an outline application....but still seems quite detailed to me.

Interesting... Hope it happens... though 14 stories isnt high, for us its here in Bristol (with our backwards council) its the EMPIRE STATE BUILDING!!!

Also not sure if you had a look at the other planning apps on that same page but they are also interesting... All this building MALARKY doesnt show signs of stoping!!! Good I Suppose...

maybe the more we develop a more obvious commercial sector in the land to the east of the centre (in other words get rid of much brownfield sites in the city as possibel so we'll have no choice but to build taller :|) then perhaps then we'll get some talls, maybe we'll look back and thank the council for being so strict :|

the thing is though a 14 story building would look very significant on the skyline (seeing as its in temple it would dominate even more seeing the obvious) because apart from the hills the city is lowrise.

In all truth i despise the British building and architecture scene at times, (although London seems to be exempt from this)

i'd rant on about whats wrong with it, but one just has to compare whats going on elsewhere in the world such as on the continent to see why, and its not just a case of the grass being greener,(not that The UK ahas ever truly been foward on the building and design scene post war wise.) its just common sense and an understanding of Building materials and processes.

and then i'll have some go on about how wrong i am, :blahblah: which will be bullshit but im simply not eloquent enough on the keyboard to give a proper answer with out F*cking it up.

*sigh* probably just had a bad day :shifty:

Well, although we welcome anything over ten stories in this city with joyous open arms(well most of us on this side of the fence do anyway), I doubt this 14 jobby will have as much of an impact on the area as some think. The floors have a smaller slab to slab height, being residential, so in effect will only be the equivelant of something like a 10 storey office block. You can see this clearly from the above render - only the top two or three storeys will poke above the roofs of the eight storey buildings next door.
I went to Portsmouth today and was quite pleasantly suprised. There are a number of fairly large buildings going up, and I couldn't help thinking that one of these would be nice situated at temple quay. It would give the whole city a nice big impression to those arriving on the train.

^aye, but what can one do?! :gaah:

with regards to the Cabot circus open day, i hope they allow a cameras, although to be honest i doubt it seing as its a building site :(

Well they can't exactly ban mobile phones though can they?:cheers:

Here's a few early shots from BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bristol/content/image_galleries/cabotcircus_sept07_gallery.shtml?1

Great pics you found Schmeek, the building is coming along great.

Just in case any of you haven't got access to an evening post -


WORK TO BEGIN ON SCIENCE PARK
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10:40 - 24 September 2007



Work is expected to start early next year on a £300 million science park at Emersons Green, which is expected to create more than 6,000 jobs.The South West Regional Development Agency (SWRDA) said its aim is to deliver the SPark which would be comparable to the best science parks in Britain such as those at Oxford, Cambridge, Manchester and Warwick.

Bristol's two universities have teamed up with Bath University to provide the heart and hub of the innovative SPark which will be at the cutting edge of new technology in aerospace, defence, digital technology and biotechnology.

It would make the Bristol region even more attractive to hi-tech businesses world wide looking to commercially develop the latest advancements in science and technology.



SWRDA chose Quantum Property Partnership to create the centre on the 25-hectare (60-acres) site. Outline planning permission was given by South Gloucestershire Council in 2000.

Phase one will comprise about one million square feet of space for an innovation centre, forum and room for expansion to companies which develop products and ideas generated by the universities.

The area already has a well-established reputation for expertise in the aerospace industry and other hi-tech areas and the science park will bring in even more highly-skilled, science-related jobs. Work on phase one is set to start in January and be completed by the autumn of the following year, and the entire science park will be completed with the next eight years. The main access to the science park will be off the Avon Ring Road roundabout at Folly Brook.

Blythe Dunk, for agents Jones, Lang LaSalle, said: "We will explore the possibility of delivering a zero carbon science park, including on-site generation of heat and power using wind turbines, biomass boilers and other efficient technologies."

The Quantum partnership has now submitted revised plans for the science park as there have been significant changes to the area since outline permission was granted.

John Godwin, executive councillor for external affairs and partnerships, said: "We strongly committed to the development of the Science Park at Emersons Green which will become a flagship project for South Gloucestershire.

"This project has been around for many years and it is very exciting to see it starting to reach the stage of being delivered. We are determined that by working with the universities and others we will keep South Gloucestershire as the home of cutting edge technology and employment.

"This project rivals any in the country including one being developed at Cambridge. When fully completed it is estimated it will create 6,000 high quality jobs and help support our existing hi-tech businesses. There remain questions about the detail of the development but this is great news for South Gloucestershire and the future prosperity and success of our community."

Just in case any of you haven't got access to an evening post -

WORK TO BEGIN ON SCIENCE PARK
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10:40 - 24 September 2007

Work is expected to start early next year on a £300 million science park at Emersons Green, which is expected to create more than 6,000 jobs.The South West Regional Development Agency (SWRDA) said its aim is to deliver the SPark which would be comparable to the best science parks in Britain such as those at Oxford, Cambridge, Manchester and Warwick.

Bristol's two universities have teamed up with Bath University to provide the heart and hub of the innovative SPark which will be at the cutting edge of new technology in aerospace, defence, digital technology and biotechnology.

It would make the Bristol region even more attractive to hi-tech businesses world wide looking to commercially develop the latest advancements in science and technology.

SWRDA chose Quantum Property Partnership to create the centre on the 25-hectare (60-acres) site. Outline planning permission was given by South Gloucestershire Council in 2000.

Phase one will comprise about one million square feet of space for an innovation centre, forum and room for expansion to companies which develop products and ideas generated by the universities.

The area already has a well-established reputation for expertise in the aerospace industry and other hi-tech areas and the science park will bring in even more highly-skilled, science-related jobs. Work on phase one is set to start in January and be completed by the autumn of the following year, and the entire science park will be completed with the next eight years. The main access to the science park will be off the Avon Ring Road roundabout at Folly Brook.

Blythe Dunk, for agents Jones, Lang LaSalle, said: "We will explore the possibility of delivering a zero carbon science park, including on-site generation of heat and power using wind turbines, biomass boilers and other efficient technologies."

The Quantum partnership has now submitted revised plans for the science park as there have been significant changes to the area since outline permission was granted.

John Godwin, executive councillor for external affairs and partnerships, said: "We strongly committed to the development of the Science Park at Emersons Green which will become a flagship project for South Gloucestershire.

"This project has been around for many years and it is very exciting to see it starting to reach the stage of being delivered. We are determined that by working with the universities and others we will keep South Gloucestershire as the home of cutting edge technology and employment.

"This project rivals any in the country including one being developed at Cambridge. When fully completed it is estimated it will create 6,000 high quality jobs and help support our existing hi-tech businesses. There remain questions about the detail of the development but this is great news for South Gloucestershire and the future prosperity and success of our community."

FINALLY!!! Any ideas what this is going to look like???

Also this is next to what I thought was going to to be land for EMERSONS GREEN (EAST) Just off the sainsbury roundabout... Any news of that??? There was supposed to be a David Lloyd Health Club going in there aswell...?

I've had a search around on the internet - but couldn't find any decent pictures. Hopefully when they do finally let us have a look at some detailed pic's we will be pleasantly surprised!!!

Science Park
North Bristol will become home to a major new Science Park being developed by the South West Regional Development Agency (SWRDA) and its development partner supported by the Universities of Bristol, Bath and the West of England (UWE) and other strategic partners.

This substantial new development will enable high technology businesses in the South West to take the next step and successfully graduate from the current business incubation facilities in the region, such as those offered by the three Universities:

Step 1: Pre-incubation for very early stage ventures
Step 2: Incubation for new small businesses
Step 3: Graduation space at the Science Park for smaller high technology businesses
Step 4: Mature space at the Science Park for more developed high technology businesses
The site has recently been purchased by the Regional Development Agency who are working closely with the universities of Bath, Bristol and UWE. SW RDA is now ready to let sites and buildings to knowledge and science based companies.

Location
Located at the crossroads of the M5 and M4 (with visibility from the M4 for improved profile) and with the region’s ever growing airport nearby, the park offers excellent connectivity:

Road - minutes from the M4 and M5

Rail - 2 main line railways, Bristol Parkway and Bristol Temple Meads, within 8 miles of the site

Air - Bristol, Cardiff and Birmingham airports nearby with Heathrow only 100 miles away by motorway

Sea - Situated near Avonmouth and Cardiff docks

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Facilities


This substantial new development will offer technology and knowledge based businesses:
Up to 100 acre green field site in two phases
Unrivalled location - in the middle of one of the country’s largest high technology clusters
Excellent communications by road, rail, air and sea
Graduate space - a halfway house
Research centre for corporate venturing
Linkages to some of the country’s top research universities and companies
Situated in a fully landscaped environment
Close to a full range of amenities and housing
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The Innovation Centre
The site will also be home to an Innovation Centre that will contain business incubation space in addition to conference facilities, business meeting space, biotech Cat II laboratories and corporate venturing facilities.

The centre boasts:

Serviced business units
Business advisory service
Gateway (two-way) to the universities’ research and innovation
Access to specialist sites
“Respectable” address
A ready made network
Source of continuing education and training
Contact
For further information, please contact Peter Maxwell in the New Business Support team.



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^^ That should be a great addition to the city, and consolidates our position as a leader in the tech world, which is very important.

Back to Cabots. Did anyone actually take the tour? Any photos anyone? I was depending on someone else doing the leg work there.......

By what i've seen (externally, and from webcams/pictures), I very much doubt it'll open on time. Although it will appear complete next september, I bet they don't get it all up and running until at least christmas. Gonna be a right mad rush to get the punters in in time for the xmas season. I can just imagine the cribbs management sitting there fingers crossed it won't be ready!:naughty:

Finally....some movement with Wapping Wharf....

http://www.ukplanning.com/ukp/showCaseFile.do;jsessionid=FC2C6BFF252EA0F9D58AB58974382449.wam1?action=show&appType=planning%20folder&appNumber=07/04092/M

That link isn't working for me Red. Could you post the news?

That link isn't working for me Red. Could you post the news?

Here you go try this one: (too much info to post, you will have to make do with a link!!!)

Description: RESERVED MATTERS PLANNING APPLICATION RELATING TO PUBLIC WORKS IN CONNECTION WITH OUTLINE PLANNING APPROVAL 04/04126/P IN MIXED USE SCHEME INVOLVING RESIDENTIAL, RETAIL, OFFICE, COMMUNITY WORKSPACE, HOTEL, LEISURE USES AND ASSOCIATEDWORKS.
Address: CAR PARK WAPPING ROAD REDCLIFF BS14RH
Application No: 07/04092/M
Online Ref: 0
Date Opened: 25 Sep 2007
Status: current


http://www.ukplanning.com/ukp/findCaseFile.do;jsessionid=E14DC0274197EBB004C558765FCEFF99.wam1?address=Wapping%20Road&appType=planning%20folder

SMC Hickton Madeley flies high with iconic design for £20 million Skills Academy

A nationwide competition to design an iconic £20 million further education building for City of Bristol College has been won by a leading architecture practice in Birmingham. SMC Hickton Madeley developed the stunning concept design for the college’s new Skills Academy at Hengrove Park in South Bristol, drawing inspiration from the site’s former use as an aerodrome. The new iconic building forms a gateway to the new site and acts as a ‘shop window’ for the public into the heart of the building. The 10,800 sq m academy is set to be the spearhead of a regeneration master plan for the area that will also include a new community hospital, leisure centre, and business and residential accommodation.

Scheduled to open in late 2009, the four-storey building will provide 16-19-year-olds and adult learners with courses in vocational subjects such as hairdressing, beauty therapy, catering, construction, engineering and motor vehicle maintenance. The eco-friendly building will benefit from a passive natural ventilation and cooling system with a south-west-facing winter garden to provide a social buffer space.

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Cheers yogi, that looks pretty amazing. I'm glad that this land will finally be made use of. Can't believe the artist who made one of the impressions managed to make the mistake of 'Goal ferry st'!:ohno:

Nice find El Greco. Looks quite bold, which is a word we don't use much these days in describing our new buildings..

i like the fact its in the souuttthhh.

Talking of south, I was thinking we missed out one huge project that is now nearing completion - Airpoint in Bedminster. I think it deserves to be on the first page....

SMC Hickton Madeley flies high with iconic design for £20 million Skills Academy

This buiding looks truely amazing - let's hope it actually looks like this when it is finished.

Things are looking up in South Bristol!!! By the time this is finished the lakeshore project should be finished which is only just down road, plus the new south Bristol hospital will hopefully be well on it's way to completion - if it doesn't get caught up in red tape.

Talking of south, I was thinking we missed out one huge project that is now nearing completion - Airpoint in Bedminster. I think it deserves to be on the first page....

Scheek - Your right about this develpoment being nearly complete, I've just found this story about the first person to move in to the airpoint development from the evening post.

ENGINEER CAN'T WAIT TO RUN ON HIS ROOF
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BY JAMES COWLING J.COWLING

10:40 - 27 September 2007



The first resident has moved in to a new apartment block in Bristol which boasts Britain's first rooftop running track.Matt Sharples, 25, said the leisure facilities were a key point in buying a flat at the Airpoint development in Bedminster.

He said: "I was looking for a home that was a cut above the rest and Airpoint definitely stood out.

"I like to keep fit and the running track together with the other leisure facilities was a key factor in signing for the flat



"To be honest, if Airpoint hadn't appeared as an option, I would probably still be renting."

Rugby player Matt, who works as an engineer for Airbus at Filton, has bought a one-bed flat in the 255-apartment complex.

He has moved into one of the first phase of 36 flats at the rear of the building which were completed earlier this month.

Despite only signing for his flat in June, Matt was the first customer to move in as his block, behind the main complex was finished first. The one- and two-bed flats are part of what became one of the fastest-selling developments in the West when it launched in April 2006.

Estate agents Ocean and Savills received more than 1,000 inquiries within the first week of launching the scheme.

About 25 people queued overnight for more than 17 hours outside the Airpoint site to make sure they were one of the lucky few to secure one of the first 50 properties.

As well as the running track, Airpoint, built on the site of the old Mail Marketing offices in West Street has a rooftop garden and a barbecue area.

The second phase of the development and the running track will be completed in December, with the final flats due for completion by the middle of 2008.

There are three two-bedroom apartments left in the development which cost £188,000 with parking.

Francis Firmstone, director of developers Firmac which built the project, said: "This is a really exciting time for us and the culmination of all the hard work that has been put in by the whole project team.

"As the first group of buyers move in, our vision to create stylish, affordable homes within a strong residential community is being realised."

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SMC Hickton Madeley flies high with iconic design for £20 million Skills Academy

A nationwide competition to design an iconic £20 million further education building for City of Bristol College has been won by a leading architecture practice in Birmingham. SMC Hickton Madeley developed the stunning concept design for the college’s new Skills Academy at Hengrove Park in South Bristol, drawing inspiration from the site’s former use as an aerodrome. The new iconic building forms a gateway to the new site and acts as a ‘shop window’ for the public into the heart of the building. The 10,800 sq m academy is set to be the spearhead of a regeneration master plan for the area that will also include a new community hospital, leisure centre, and business and residential accommodation.

Scheduled to open in late 2009, the four-storey building will provide 16-19-year-olds and adult learners with courses in vocational subjects such as hairdressing, beauty therapy, catering, construction, engineering and motor vehicle maintenance. The eco-friendly building will benefit from a passive natural ventilation and cooling system with a south-west-facing winter garden to provide a social buffer space.

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Good find El Greco....
I'm with Yogib52 on this, I love it!!! I don't know south Bristol too well but i reckon i'll be getting to know it better with developments like this & lake shore coming together.........

If you haven't already done this, please sign this petition!


RAIL LINK PETITION GETS ROLLING ONLINE
10:40 - 29 September 2007

Campaigners in Portishead have set up an online petition calling for a railway station in the town to link up to Bristol.

Portishead Railway Group has been calling for the train line in the town to be reinstated to Bristol for more than 10 years.

The line still exists and has been refurbished for freight use at a cost of £21 million but it is only open as far as Royal Portbury Docks.

For commuters to be able to use the line to get to Bristol, the remaining 3.25 miles would need to be reinstated.

Some land has been reserved by the council as possible use for a new station in Portishead and a car park has already been built next to Waitrose car park.

However, so far no government funding has been forthcoming to pay for the remaining track.

Now a supporter of the campaign, Mike Sperring, has taken their plight to Downing Street by setting up an online petition.

It appears on the government website http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/portisheadrail

It has already attracted 552 supporters and the closing deadline is not until November 24.

Mr Sperring said: "To keep it simple - house building is sky high, population is sky high, motorway capacity is sky high, polution is sky high, a railway line already exists, the demand already exists, the solution is to replace four miles of track and build a station, simple.

"Everyone can then commute and be happy.

"The land is even vacant awaiting a station.

"We hope the Government will look into this as it is long-awaited and as, by the end of the year, this town won't cope - it's too small."

Alan Matthews, chairman of the Portishead Railway Group, said he was not aware the petition had gone online but had encouraged all members to sign.

He said: "An e-petition has now been set up on the government website asking for the Prime Minister to construct a railway station in Portishead.

"We are now supporting it and need all residents in Portishead and the Gordano Valley to sign the e-petition.

"There is only 3.25 miles of track that needs to be redone from the Severn Beach line to make the whole line viable and offer a link to Bristol.

"We think it would cost around £3million to do this and additional money for a railway station is already sitting in the bank after being provided by Crest Nicholson.

"Portishead has quadrupled in size since the 1950s and they are still building houses here, so it can only get worse. There is only one main road out of the town, which causes heavy congestion and a railway link would help solve this problem and would take only 28 minutes for passengers to get to Temple Meads.

"We hope the Government will support our campaign."

Mr Matthews says in the meantime the group is continuing dialogue with First Group and Network Rail.

He says residents have written to the Government Office of the South West to ask why the line has not been reopened to passengers.

Mr Matthews claims the general reply is that the line was not in the Greater Bristol Transport Study and the best option was the showcase bus route.

Portishead will be the largest town in the country without a rail link when the current house-building programme is complete - its population doubling by 2010.

For more information about Portishead Railway Group, visit http://www.portisheadrailwaygroup.org

signed. dont they call Portishead, Britians largest Cul de sac?

Was reading in another forum about Experian retail rankings for 2007. I think Bristol is well down in the rankings because of the Broadmead redevelopment…I think it might be no. 25 or something which is really pants but understandable I suppose. I was trying to find out how Cabot Circus will change the ranking in 2008, but I can’t find any definitive data about it.

Interestingly I found this page (see link below) which puts Broadmead as the no 2 shopping centre in the UK, after the Metro Centre….clearly whoever put this table together has got the wrong end of the stick about Broadmead because there’s a world of difference between it and the Metro Centre. In the new developments table the Cabot Circus development is put at over 1.7 million sq ft, which is also surely wrong…I thought it was just over 1 million sq ft…have they quoted the figure for the whole of Broadmead? I was sure that the new Liverpool 1 development was larger than Cabot Circus?

http://www.nrpf.org/Top_centres.htm#Centres

It's rather lowly, but they only included Broadmead (not even St Nicks market).


I tend to shop around Borders, Forbidden planet, along park street and Park row etc. perhaps if they included that, then it would see a rise up the list, as aq pretty signifcant number of people shop or what have you here as they do in Broadmead.

But then if they applied them, it might make it more problematic for scoring the other cities.

With regards to the Portishead thing, there's over 600 sigs :happy:

Was reading in another forum about Experian retail rankings for 2007. I think Bristol is well down in the rankings because of the Broadmead redevelopment…I think it might be no. 25 or something which is really pants but understandable I suppose. I was trying to find out how Cabot Circus will change the ranking in 2008, but I can’t find any definitive data about it.

Interestingly I found this page (see link below) which puts Broadmead as the no 2 shopping centre in the UK, after the Metro Centre….clearly whoever put this table together has got the wrong end of the stick about Broadmead because there’s a world of difference between it and the Metro Centre. In the new developments table the Cabot Circus development is put at over 1.7 million sq ft, which is also surely wrong…I thought it was just over 1 million sq ft…have they quoted the figure for the whole of Broadmead? I was sure that the new Liverpool 1 development was larger than Cabot Circus?

http://www.nrpf.org/Top_centres.htm#Centres

There was a article tucked away in todays evening post re: the improvement in the shopping destinations rankings league table for Bristol once Cabot Circus opens (personally I can't wait until it opens!!).

The article is shown below:

CITY WILL BE AMONG BEST FOR SHOPPING
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13:16 - 02 October 2007

Bristol is forecast to rise up the list of the UK's best shopping destinations when its Cabot Circus development is complete next year.The £500m Cabot Circus project will see 120 new shops to add to the 300 already in Broadmead.

Among them will be Harvey Nichols, Zara, Bershka and G-Star, and existing traders including River Island, Next and New Look will be taking up larger stores.

Broadmead manager John Hirst said he was very optimistic about a rise in the fortunes of the city's main shopping centre.

He said: "I'm confident that the development of Cabot Circus will propel us into the top ten in the UK rankings by 2008.

"What we're adding to the scheme here in Bristol is phenomenal.

"At the moment, I would actually say we are lower than 24th but Cabot Circus will catapult us right up there with the best in the country."

Mr Hirst said out-of-town shopping centres such as Cribbs Causeway had affected Broadmead but Cabot Circus would put Bristol back on the shopping map.

He said: "The forward momentum Cabot Circus is giving us means we are very optimistic for the future."

"It is a very exciting time and all of the hard work that's been put in by the team over a long period of time is definitely beginning to pay off."

Mr Hirst's comments come after finance company Experian predicted Bristol would be back in the top 20 shopping destinations by 2017.

Experian's Retail Ranking report states: "Bristol has been in the doldrums for a decade since John Lewis left for Cribbs Causeway.

"However, the investment at Cabot Circus will address this, creating a stunning retail environment with a new House of Fraser, a good wide-ranging fashion offer, car park and innovative shopping centre design.

"The influence of Bristol city centre will grow over the years and we expect the traditional core retail pitch within Broadmead to benefit from the new development in the long term."

The report charts the estimated annual spend for this year as £862,134,226 and gives a comparison spend for 2017, not including growth, as just over £1billion.

London's world famous West End is still the most attractive place to go shopping and is expected to retain that honour, with Glasgow, Birmingham, Manchester and Nottingham keeping their places in the top five.

Reader comments
Its a pitty the new broadmead looks like being another ugly block at the end of the M32, they could have put something slightly better looking at the new junction rather then what looks like a large stone box. And we'll still have the rest of broadmead looking bad. Hopefully they'll have less preachers and big issue vendors in the new part aswell
trevor, horfield

Im a little bit irked that primark is going to be in the old lewis'/John Lewis/Bentalls/House of Fraiser :tongue3:

Im a little bit irked that primark is going to be in the old lewis'/John Lewis/Bentalls/House of Fraiser :tongue3:

Im not sure it will work... Maybe they may reconsider... WE WISH!!!

Around temple quay... Not massive developments but shows the amount of money being spent around OLD MARKET... Also with all the development heppening here (OLD MARKET) anybody think its going to become a Upmarket Area???

ALPHA HOUSE PROJECT:

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Im not sure it will work... Maybe they may reconsider... WE WISH!!!

I hope not too :cry: i mean its primark! its a great building, even more so when you find out its a post war one!

still, even if something like primark were to occupy it, at least its being used :yes:




Around temple quay... Not massive developments but shows the amount of money being spent around OLD MARKET... Also with all the development heppening here (OLD MARKET) anybody think its going to become a Upmarket Area???

ALPHA HOUSE:

http://e2eweb.bristol-city.gov.uk/Pu...=JHCYUGDN0LD00

Coming from the bus routes that pass through it for years you can really see the difference to what it once was :yes: although its been happening at a rather snails pace from the looks of it, its hard to believe that this used to be the main commercial strip (or one of them).

as far as being an upmarket area, who knows!? its suffers from problems such as :

its still rather seedy, the traffic can be too much alot of the time, essentially its an island having been cut off at both ends (with the eastern end ending very abruptly) from regular people traffic and the residential areas around it are poor social housing.

i've seen some relatively nice looking eateries along it (well... 1 or 2 at the far end) but thats it, as far as being Bristols gay village rather symbolically like the rest of the street its still abit halfway, and then there are the massage parlours (for whatever orientation, i dont know :shifty:)

It should be a realtively prosperous area, i mean arguably its one of the quirkiest and best looking streets in the centre, but-

give it say, another 2-3 years and we'll see something, especially when the new Broadmead opens up!

I hope not too :cry: i mean its primark! its a great building, even more so when you find out its a post war one!

still, even if something like primark were to occupy it, at least its being used :yes:





Coming from the bus routes that pass through it for years you can really see the difference to what it once was :yes: although its been happening at a rather snails pace from the looks of it, its hard to believe that this used to be the main commercial strip (or one of them).

as far as being an upmarket area, who knows!? its suffers from problems such as :

its still rather seedy, the traffic can be too much alot of the time, essentially its an island having been cut off at both ends (with the eastern end ending very abruptly) from regular people traffic and the residential areas around it are poor social housing.

i've seen some relatively nice looking eateries along it (well... 1 or 2 at the far end) but thats it, as far as being Bristols gay village rather symbolically like the rest of the street its still abit halfway, and then there are the massage parlours (for whatever orientation, i dont know :shifty:)

It should be a realtively prosperous area, i mean arguably its one of the quirkiest and best looking streets in the centre, but-

give it say, another 2-3 years and we'll see something, especially when the new Broadmead opens up!

Seedy... Maybe its a calling for a BRISTOL SOHO!!!

A Couple of thing of interest in today's evening post:

1) There was a small article mentioning that the 'New' magistrates court building will be opening in early December with some of court staff moving across next month. At long last........ Only a delay of 12 months.

2) There was also an advert for a new carpark run by Apcoa (the people who run alot of the airport & train station parking in the UK) on the spare land next to the river in temple quay. It states that it opened on the 1st of October, does anybody know it they have dug up all that lovely grass shown in the picture below?

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^^im a little too short to be able to look over the fence :cry:

Seedy... Maybe its a calling for a BRISTOL SOHO!!!

hopefully, when the Temple area increases its office space (and maybe even Finzells reach too etc.) there'll be a greater amount of people (despite obvious shortcomings) coming to the area from offices just to the south.

A Couple of thing of interest in today's evening post:

1) There was a small article mentioning that the 'New' magistrates court building will be opening in early December with some of court staff moving across next month. At long last........ Only a delay of 12 months.

2) There was also an advert for a new carpark run by Apcoa (the people who run alot of the airport & train station parking in the UK) on the spare land next to the river in temple quay. It states that it opened on the 1st of October, does anybody know it they have dug up all that lovely grass shown in the picture below?

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Well first of all that might have looked like lovely grass from a helicopter 800ft in the air, but at ground level you could see it was just rubble with some rough grass, ivy and a lot of weeds....and yup its all gone. They have resurfaced the land with sand and gravel and its been open for a few days now. There are pay and display machines dotted around it as well and a pedestrain crossing and railings have been erected next to the entrance so that sleepy communters don't wander into the path of the parking cars. Incidentally there is another temporary car park open on on land between TQ and the station...I have no idea when that got permission. I guess its on land that is safeguarded for the tram route....so it could be there for a looooong time.

Plans to build the UK's biggest biodiesel plant in Avonmouth have been agreed by Bristol City Council.

Bristol firm ABS Biodiesel will build the £21 million plant on three acres of undeveloped land at the port.

ABS will have a workforce of about 50 once the plant is in production - a figure that may rise when production is ramped up from 250,000 to half a million tonnes after three or four years.

Biodiesel is made from vegetable oils derived from crops such as soya and rapeseed.

It is used as a green alternative to conventional fuels and will be distributed in bulk to major oil refineries and large-scale users such as petroleum companies, hauliers and local authorities.

ABS business development director Alan Bailey said the company had chosen Avonmouth Docks because of their ideal location for distribution.

The project's chief financial backer is due to sign up within the next few weeks and it is hoped that work will begin on the site before Christmas.

Mr Bailey said: "We are looking to begin production of biodiesel in October next year.

"The company will buy shipments of rapeseed and other vegetable oil on the commercial markets in the UK and Amsterdam and ship them to Avonmouth. We expect about 90 per cent to arrive by ship.

"We are trying to avoid road haulage as much as possible."

About 60 per cent of output will go to refineries where the big oil companies will mix biofuel into their output to meet targets due to be enforced under UK and European law.

The German technology to be used at Avonmouth will enable ABS to produce biofuel in batches from a variety of sources - even including tallow, used for making candles and soap.

In Germany, many big fleet operators are already running on 100 per cent biodiesel which emits less carbon monoxide, no sulphur dioxide and virtually halves soot emissions. It is also bio-degradable and non-toxic.

There is the possibility for further expansion at Avonmouth but it is likely that if demand is strong ABS will estab- lish a second plant on the East Coast.

Currently, the largest producer of biodiesel is the port of Immingham in Lincolnshire, which produces around 100,000 tonnes a year.

Mr Bailey said: "I think Avonmouth can rival the North East as one of the green capitals of the UK."

Not the best quality (4th October 2007)

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Good pics Clarky the development is coming along nicely.

Two very different towers next to eachother!
The new one looks actually quite nice now that there's a little more of it. I also thought it looked a bit stringy and anorexic compared to Castle Mead but it's looking good now.

They're back, remember them? :ohno:

PARK SUPPORTERS VOW TO FIGHT FOR VITAL GREEN SPACE


Campaigners in Bris- tol are gearing up for a renewed fight with city council bosses to keep Castle Park green as revised plans for its development are just weeks away from going on display.Supporters say Castle Park has become a much-loved and popular green space in the city centre, and at little expense - mostly more seating, bins, and improved information boards - could be made a major attraction for locals and visitors.

But Bristol City Council and developers plan to build on part of this site, claiming it is under-used and is holding back development in the area.

Last year's proposals, which included the St Mary le Port site at the High Street and Wine Street end of the park, were rejected after a public outcry over losing so much green space.

Developer Deeley Freed was asked to reconsider its plans which included shops, homes, public squares, offices, cafes and a food quarter selling local produce, building on some of the grassed areas used by office workers during their lunch breaks.

The revised plans are due to be released by the end of the year, but no firm date has been set.

Campaigners told the Western Daily Press they will fight the plans and are urging people to write to their local councillors to put a stop to the development.

Bristol West Green Party spokesman Geoff Collard said: "I have lived in Bristol for a long time and I am an almost daily user of this part of Castle Park. It is a welcome respite from the traffic on my walk to and from my work.

"The proposed St Mary le Port development of Castle Park is not needed or wanted. It is being proposed as a cynical way of making money for greedy developers, and for the council, by selling off part of Bristol's heritage.

"There are few enough green spaces in central Bristol, and this area which the developers want to build on is also well used every day by working people taking a well- earned lunch break from their shops and offices."

With such huge opposition to the proposals, Mr Collard said the council will have no choice but to take note.

"They will have to listen to us because we have the support of lots of people in the city," he said.

"There's a huge amount of development going on in the city with lots of derelict buildings being turned into office space and flats. There really is no need for more development.

"All these people who are moving into these offices will need somewhere to relax outside.

"We are aware the new plans are coming up - we expect them in November - so we are renewing the pressure."

Deeley Freed says the new proposals will focus on creating a "vibrant new quarter for the city which reclaims the historic heart of Bristol and reflects the area's original medieval street patterns".

Under the proposals, the derelict post-war buildings would be replaced by food shops, cafes and restaurants.

Feedback from consultation last autumn revealed that most people supported the idea of redeveloping the St Mary le Port area to include a food quarter.

However people were concerned about the loss of green space. The public also asked for more detail before they could back any plans.

Once cabinet approval has been given, Deeley Freed will consult the public and other key stakeholders before seeking planning permission in spring 2008.

David Freed, director of Deeley Freed, said: "We have listened and are responding to the views of the public and the many stakeholders who are interested in the project and will continue to do so as work on the design continues. We are confident we can produce a design of which Bristol can be proud."

Local historian Barb Drum- mond said: "Castle Park is a beautiful quiet space in the centre of an increasingly noisy city.

"We saw from the Bristol beach this summer that outside spaces are really popular.

"It's just a waiting game now, but we will fight as much as we can."

I thought this ''lot'' or should i say person had buggered off, but they've come back as it would seem.

toolish nimby :bash:

It does seem a bit silly that they're campaigning against the plans before they've even seen them.

The St Mary-le-port site includes a large area of derelict offices which is what the developers are meant to be redeveloping. If they stick to that, then I can't see a problem.

exactly, im not entirely sure whats going on in their heads, I'd like some sort of mini Piazza, if the buildings that are going on the site are shite then maybe it would be good to stop the developers, but until then...

I had a walk through the park the other day and really wish they'd make more of the history side of it with the castle remains(small though they are) cleaned up and made accessable. They should open up the sallyport for starters, what a missed opportunity that has been over the years.


Anyway, here's a small update:

Broad quay. What do you all think about the glass?
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The stone cladding on Bond street south. Again, your thoughts please.
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From the rear of the car park.
http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa272/Berbaking/horseworldbris013.jpg

This is the end of the carpark by the electricity substation. I would presume the walkway/bridge will run along the ledges you can see. The concrete tower shows the eventual height of the building.
http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa272/Berbaking/horseworldbris012.jpg

This is where the future hotel will be built. Trees are being removed to create enough space.
http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa272/Berbaking/horseworldbris010.jpg


And here's my customary random pic of the month! Does anyone know what the small curved brown/white building sitting atop the grey one is? Or when it was built? This has baffled me for ages now....
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double post

Good close ups :okay:

I had a walk through the park the other day and really wish they'd make more of the history side of it with the castle remains(small though they are) cleaned up and made accessable. They should open up the sallyport for starters, what a missed opportunity that has been over the years.

I agree, i also would like it, if there was a greater mention of the fact that the park was once a thriving commercial district :yes:


Broad quay. What do you all think about the glass?

it looks like it still has some protective film covering it, i'll have to save my judgement for when its completed (or nearly) though.

The stone cladding on Bond street south. Again, your thoughts please.
its alright, what i do like about it i must point out is that its textured, rather than just being a single monotomous wall, but still, its the back of a building regardless.

And here's my customary random pic of the month! Does anyone know what the small curved brown/white building sitting atop the grey one is? Or when it was built? This has baffled me for ages now....


its very recent, building work was finished (or nearly so) within the year, its actually quite a good extension, i just hope they don't plan on leaving the rest of the building that way...,

speaking of which, apart from the traffic (which adds something) the area is rather... dead.

I agree. The bustling centre around St. Augustine's Parade and the business of Broadmead is split into two sort of CBDs by the Lewin's Mead area. It looks shabby as most of the buildins are of 60s origin and the only link really is Corn Street.

They're back, remember them? :ohno:



I thought this ''lot'' or should i say person had buggered off, but they've come back as it would seem.

toolish nimby :bash:

Does anybody have the old plans... I cant remember but were they really building on that much green space??? Wasnt it an massive improvement...

These people that bang on about all this loss of green belt, space and no tall bulidings etc etc have nothing better to do and therefore have the time to write letters to the council...

We, who are all for tastefull development dont have the time and therefore nevr get heard... The council needs to stop listenings to these IDIOTS!!! Development is good... EVOLUTION PEOPLE!!!

Does anybody have the old plans... I cant remember but were they really building on that much green space??? Wasnt it an massive improvement...

These people that bang on about all this loss of green belt, space and no tall bulidings etc etc have nothing better to do and therefore have the time to write letters to the council...

We, who are all for tastefull development dont have the time and therefore nevr get heard... The council needs to stop listenings to these IDIOTS!!! Development is good... EVOLUTION PEOPLE!!!

These idiots are the Council! :lol: :cry:

I agree. The bustling centre around St. Augustine's Parade and the business of Broadmead is split into two sort of CBDs by the Lewin's Mead area. It looks shabby as most of the buildins are of 60s origin and the only link really is Corn Street.

:yes:, its understandable seeing as alot of them are offices, but the way alot of the other buildings are designed means they allow little in the way of street activity etc..

The old Bristol and West Tower is starting to look like a vertical IKEA…I’m not impressed in the slightest, but perhaps it may look more convincing as the glass gets lighter towards the top.

The roof extension on St Augustine’s parade is an abomination. I suspect that it’s been left in its unfinished state because the developer has not built the thing in line with the planning permission. I mean for f*cks sake….who in their right mind would allow a terracotta clad heap to be built on a concrete box on of the most visible locations on the Centre? If the Council had any style, taste or decorum they would Compulsory Purchase that whole stretch of squalid concrete nastiness all the way from Sun Alliance up to the new Urban Splash redevelopment (both side of the road). It’s one of the most important areas in the City Centre, linking up the Centre with Broadmead. The government changed the planning and CPO powers in 2004 so that Councils could assemble land quickly and efficiently for exactly this purpose, to enable development. It could be pedestrianised and redeveloped as a top notch mixed use office/ restaurant/ retail/ boutique quarter…something like Brindley Place in B’ham.

Does anybody have the old plans... I cant remember but were they really building on that much green space??? Wasnt it an massive improvement...

These people that bang on about all this loss of green belt, space and no tall bulidings etc etc have nothing better to do and therefore have the time to write letters to the council...

We, who are all for tastefull development dont have the time and therefore nevr get heard... The council needs to stop listenings to these IDIOTS!!! Development is good... EVOLUTION PEOPLE!!!

Here is the link for the development http://www.stmaryleport.co.uk/
why dont we start up our own campaign to get the area developed?

I must say i do quite like the glass on the old bristol and west tower.
it is staying true to the renders .

http://www.aww-uk.com/ProjectPage.asp?name=mixed+use&pgno=1&intprojectid=429

I'm also quite fond of the blue glass panels. Don't think it'll turn out looking too shabby, especially not as long as Colston Tower is still there.

What I'm more afraid of is what the surrounding buildings will look like. Can we have a campaign to ban pastel yellow please?

I'm also quite fond of the blue glass panels. Don't think it'll turn out looking too shabby, especially not as long as Colston Tower is still there.

What I'm more afraid of is what the surrounding buildings will look like. Can we have a campaign to ban pastel yellow please?

OK So its yellow... Im just glad there is alot of other development on the same site and some of it is actually quite tall (UK STANDARDS)... Should be a good project once finished and seems to be coming along nicely...

I was alittle suprised that the council allowed such a dence project on the site but happy they did!!!

P.S Looks like we have a new FORUMER from Bristol on SSC... WELCOME!!!

I agree. Like those recent apartments on Baldwin Street. As I've said before - they are a sickly colour and really don't do the street any justice.

^^plus its the usual indentikit stuff you get, that looks like itll fall down if you hit it hard enough XD

Hello tpm :wave: welcome!!!!

This bid DOES include plans to reopen the Portishead rail line and improve the Severn Beach line. Hopefully we'll get enough for them to do this rather than just churn out more 'Showcase Bus Routes' which, in my opinion, doesn't provide anything more than what other cities demand from their 'normal' bus routes (buses that are clean and on time)


Authorities unite to tackle congestion threat
Release Date: 10-Oct-2007
http://www.bristol.gov.uk/ccm/content/press-releases/2007/oct/authorities-unite-to-tackle-congestion-threat.en

The West of England today takes a major step towards tackling the region's congestion challenges by submitting its ‘Our Future Transport’ vision document to the Department for Transport.

The move is part of a process which will see the four West of England Partnership authorities – Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire - uniting to express continued interest in developing a bid for a slice of the Government’s £1.4bn Transport Innovation Fund early next year, subject to political approval.

Our Future Transport looks at the traffic problems facing the area and highlights the various measures being considered to tackle them, including significant step change improvements to public transport and the road network. Measures include new Bus Rapid Transit routes, which will feature segregated bus lanes on parts of the route to provide fast and reliable journey times, plus improvements to rail services, including extra carriages on existing and additional rail services, the reopening of rail lines and stations and improved facilities at stations.

New Council offices on the junction of Stover Road and Badminton Road, In Yate...

Will be built on a piece of redundent land which in on a main junction... Even councils are taking up green fields but when someone else (other developers) want to do it they have a problem...!!!

Total Cost: £29 Million (Was £25m but has risen already)

Completion date: Set for Early 2010

Architect: Stride Treglown

Heres the planning application:

http://planning.southglos.gov.uk/WAM/showCaseFile.do;jsessionid=E88C701FB86AA42098C493E35C3E70F1?action=show&appType=Planning&appNumber=PT07/3002/R3R

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Just thought I would Randomly put a picture of Bristol on the Forum!!!

...Yes, OK I got bored... :ohno:

This is one of my favorite aerial shots of Central Bristol... I know it would look even better if some of the projects i.e Wapping Warf, SS Great Britain Development, Finzels Reach, Mary Le Port, Colston Hall, Princes Warf (Industrial Museum), Harbourside, Broad Quay, College Square House etc etc were here but I still really like it!!!

Also, it does show that compared to alot of Central Areas of Big Cities, Bristol does not have alot of green space and its quite dence with buildings!!!

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w164/gee31/CentralBristolArial.jpg

A website giving people the chance to see what developments are planned for their area has been launched by a Bristol man.

Previously, people had to know the street name where an application had been proposed in order to use websites such as UKPlanning or the city council site.

But Sneyd Park resident David Wedge, 36, has set up his own website, www.planningfinder.co.uk where people can enter their postcode and find out all current applications near their homes.

Mr Wedge, a product development manager, said he had the idea after realising the lack of notice local authorities need to give when planning applications are lodged.

The Evening Post has published several stories in previous years of residents who only discovered an application had been submitted after a chance encounter with a notice on a nearby lamppost.

Mr Wedge, who co-founded the website with friend Tom Busby, said: "The service came about when I began to notice just how many Evening Post articles concerned planning issues.

"A waste-recycling centre had opened near a residential area without anyone living nearby being told about it.

"The local council apologised for not having sent consultation letters and promised to put things right, but this was not before a great deal of misery had been caused to many local residents.

"This type of mistake happens around the country, and the consequences of such errors can be grave for those people caught up in them."

People using the website can enter their postcode and find all current applications within a 400-metre, half-mile or mile radius.

The website works by searching for applications on local authority websites and then identifying which ones are close to the user.

Mr Wedge said: "The Planning Finder service is designed to improve the scrutiny given to planning applications in general and currently covers more than 100 councils across the country - full national coverage is planned.

"We envisage our website automatically drawing the attention of the right expert in the council to applications as they come in, be it one which should be seen by the pollution control department, nature conservation officers or whoever.

"Instead of providing a postcode they would register the kinds of application they wish to see. The website is intended as a tool to benefit all in the community, whether residents, developers or government officials, by helping make planning information far more visible."

The free website also includes newspaper articles on planning issues from around the country and a variety of case studies.

New Look @ Cabot Circus

Fashion chain New Look is opening a 35,000 sq ft flagship store at a Land Securities and Hammerson 1m sq ft joint venture in Bristol.

New Look was originally taking 22,000 sq ft at Cabot Circus, in Bristol City Centre but decided to expand it’s presence by taking an additional 13,000 sq ft.

The £500m scheme, being developed by the joint venture Bristol Alliance, is said to have already achieved 75% of its floor space letting.

Fashion retailers
The centre will house 120 stores, anchored by a 170,000 sq ft House of Fraser, as well as 13-screen cinema and 200 hundred new homes.


Other fashion retailers signed up to take space include Harvey Nichols, Zara and Top Shop.

Cabot Circus is due for completion in Autumn 2008.

Joint letting agents for the scheme are DTZ and Lunson Mitchenall.

Love the photo Gee!!

I'm just trying to date when it was taken, is about 10 years ago? In the picture I can still see the buildings where they built the Mathew (the site of this year's urban beach) I also noticed that the Cannon's marsh car parks are still in use so I am reckoning on 1997 or 1998. Also is the road still in place thro the middle of Queens square? I thought that went years ago!
God my memory must be getting bad!

I've also noticed the lack of any major building activity (what no cranes!) It would be a totally different sorry if the same picture was taken anytime over the last year or so!!


Just thought I would Randomly put a picture of Bristol on the Forum!!!

...Yes, OK I got bored... :ohno:

This is one of my favorite aerial shots of Central Bristol... I know it would look even better if some of the projects i.e Wapping Warf, SS Great Britain Development, Finzels Reach, Mary Le Port, Colston Hall, Princes Warf (Industrial Museum), Harbourside, Broad Quay, College Square House etc etc were here but I still really like it!!!

Also, it does show that compared to alot of Central Areas of Big Cities, Bristol does not have alot of green space and its quite dence with buildings!!!

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w164/gee31/CentralBristolArial.jpg

Yeah it's an angle I don't think I have seen before. 98ish seems about right. Just before they started @Bristol, and 5102(st. James Barton)is there by the look of it, which I think opened around that time(?).
Good spot about the lack of cranes Yogi - I hadn't noticed that at all.

Actually, it's amazing the wealth of information you can extract from these pictures - it's why I love aerials - check out the size of the car park by the ice rink in Frogmore street. It's huuge! Never realised that before. And notice Asda car park(Bedminster)at the bottom of the screen. It's annoyed me for ages that they haven't put a petrol station down the bottom end, because there's such a shortage in this area and the car park is very rarely full because so many people walk to the store from Bedminster etc.

I believe that Asda actually has planing permission to build petrol station at their Bedminster branch and they were going to start building it this summer but they had some issues about petrol tankers making deliveries. I'm pretty sure it's only a temporary glitch and it will get built pretty soon as it will be the only petrol station around for a good few miles.

Actually, it's amazing the wealth of information you can extract from these pictures - it's why I love aerials - check out the size of the car park by the ice rink in Frogmore street. It's huuge! Never realised that before. And notice Asda car park(Bedminster)at the bottom of the screen. It's annoyed me for ages that they haven't put a petrol station down the bottom end, because there's such a shortage in this area and the car park is very rarely full because so many people walk to the store from Bedminster etc.

New Look @ Cabot Circus

Where did you find the write up???

The project to rebuild Filton High School will cost nearly £4 million more than expected - before building work has even begun.

The Evening Post has learnt that sprinkler systems are one of the design features which could be scrapped to save cash.

Last year, South Gloucestershire Council was granted £25m to rebuild a school in the district under the Government's Building for Schools Future programme.

The council decided that Filton High School, right, which was built in the 1950s, was the most in need of refurbishment.

However, the Evening Post can reveal that the projected cost of the scheme is £3.8m more than the money allocated from the Government.

Work will begin on demolishing the school in September next year. It is due to be completed by 2010.

A source close to the project said: "The new school is expected to be £3.8m over budget and is at risk of having important safety issues cut out such as sprinkler systems and design features.

"With fires in schools this would be dangerous and costly. Dedicated meeting rooms are also to be axed.

"This is looking like a second-rate school as opposed to the school I remember reading about in the Evening Post."

South Gloucestershire Council confirmed that the school plan was over budget. Council spokeswoman Kate Champion said: "As part of a new build all schools go through a value engineering process.

"This process looks at all items which we would like to include in the build. However, budgets do not allow for everything.

"The sprinkler system, which costs in the region of £500,000, is one of many items on this list.

"However, as part of any new school building, South Gloucestershire Council considers the inclusion of a sprinkler system as a high priority and we hope that this will be the case for Filton High School.

"The funding allocation is tight and it is difficult to meet all aspirations from the allocated budget. Current indications show the scheme is over budget. However, the council is currently considering options for how this can be addressed."

Filton High School head teacher Ann Duff declined to comment.

Anybody have any pictures or info on what the new school will look like and what will be added???

whats the semi circular thing infront of the Lloyds Building???

Saw this rendering on the London and County website regarding the Victoria Street Site (Norwich Union Building)... It looks to be a good few stories high but I am not sure wether its passed planning or wether it will even be built!!!

http://www.londonandcounty.co.uk/assets/projects_bristol_l.jpg

OK, I recently contacted the company doing the Victoria Street Project (Norwich Union Building Opposite The Paragon Construction) and found out they have put in for Planning for a 10 Story Building... The Plans were only submitted 3 days ago (10/10/07) so the renderings are not on the page yet but will be soon...

Heres the planning app:

http://e2eweb.bristol.gov.uk/PublicAccess/tdc/DcApplication/application_detailview.aspx?caseno=JPLHO1DN0DD00

Where did you find the write up???

Property Week (http://www.propertyweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=297&storycode=3097495&c=1)

whats the semi circular thing infront of the Lloyds Building???

The ampitheatre

more from property week...
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Bristol City Council has approved plans for three office buildings, totalling 415,000 sq ft. The largest of the three buildings is 215,000 sq ft, part of which has been prelet to law firm Burges Salmon which has taken 160,000 sq ft.

The rest of the Waterfront scheme comprises 93 apartments, 72 of which will be based in a 14 storey tower at the western end of the site.


Glenn Howells Architects, Niall McLaughlin Architects, Stride Treglown, Atkins and Aukett Fitzroy Robinson are architects. Urbed and Turley Associates provided planning advice. Alder King is letting agent.

Construction work will start later this year and the scheme should be mostly completed by December 2009.

Great article on finzels reach - worth the read

http://www.propertyweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=36&storycode=3095195

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Bristol’s Floating Harbour is undergoing a transformation that includes the demolition of the Courage Brewery.

Last weekend Bristolians entered a part of their city that had been closed for seven years. They came through the Counterslip entrance to the disused Courage Brewery. Since brewing ended at the beginning of this century, the 5.6 acre site has seemed like a bandaged finger, pointing into the right-angled bend in the Floating Harbour between Bristol Bridge and St Philip’s Bridge.

The public were invited by HDG Mansur, the US-based development adviser to three Middle Eastern funds that bought the brewery in 2003 from JJ Gallagher, the Midlands developer. HDG Mansur renamed the site Finzels Reach, to take away the connotation of alcohol that would have flouted Islamic Shariah law.

In March, work began to demolish the unlisted brewery buildings. By next year, work will begin on the 113,000 sq ft Bridgewater House – a speculative office building on a part of the site furthest from the water.

The scheme will be built simultaneously with 385 flats, 70 of which have already been sold to a single investor. Hamptons International is quoting £400/sq ft for the waterside flats and £500,000 for the penthouses.

Office prelets, however, have proved harder. The Royal Bank of Scotland pulled out when Gallagher’s scheme failed to gain planning approval, and law firm Burges Salmon played safe by taking a prelet on Castlemore Securities’ Temple Quay 2.

Ersatz palace

If the lawyers had chosen Finzels, part of their offices would have been in the Generator Building. Last weekend’s visitors were invited to see an excavated 13th-century well before it is displayed in a museum. But their attention was undoubtedly drawn to the Generator Building, that was previously only visible at close range from a harbour boat ride.

This ersatz Venetian palace once housed the generator to power Bristol’s trams, until it became an underused part of the brewery. Now the Shell behind the exterior of three levels of Norman-arched windows will be converted into 30,000 sq ft of offices, making it Bristol’s first historic building with a commercial, rather than leisure, use.

That fact comes as a surprise to Chris Read, head of development for UK and Europe for HDG Mansur. As developer in charge of Development Securities’ Millbay waterside project in Plymouth, Read says: ‘I know Bristol reasonably well, and I have always loved it as a city.

‘When I joined HDG Mansur in May, one of the attractions was working on this scheme. I was surprised that Bristol didn’t already have anything like it. It didn’t have a scheme that combined historic old buildings that could be translated into new architecture.’

Read, who joined from Amec two months after the groundbreaking work on Finzels Reach began, was speaking from the office of the letting agent, Atisreal, on the fourth floor of 1 Radcliff Street, which overlooks the site where the Generator Building towers above piles of rubble the remains of demolished buildings.

Now the old and the new will have separate futures, with tenants as yet unknown.

Read points to where the medieval street patterns will be revived on the site from its pre-brewery days. But the future is less well mapped for the Bridgewater building.

He says: ‘We are not quoting rents, but I believe the site is up there with the leaders.’

Atisreal director Peter White, who is the letting agent, says he is already talking to three prospective occupiers for the Generator Building.

Finzels’ third and largest proposed office development, the 150,000 sq ft Temple Building, will only begin once a prelet is signed.

The caution seems wise since, after a lull, Bristol is seeing a surge in speculative office development. Bristol’s top law firms took space in the previous speculative surge three years ago. The unanswered question is: which workforce will be in the frame this time? Little has happened this year, apart from the Court Service taking 100,000 sq ft in a Scottish Widows scheme at 2 Redcliff Street.

“When I joined HDG mansur, one of the attractions was working on finzels
”Chris Read, HDG mansur - While Finzels is a cleared development site, two other speculative developments are further advanced and only minutes away.

The framework is now in place at Temple Back, where UK & European Investments began work in February, just the other side of Counterslip, on a 123,000 sq ft scheme on an old electricity-generating site. The scheme will be completed by the end of 2008.

Letting agent Chris Grazier, a partner at Hartnell Taylor Cook, insists: ‘This is the biggest speculative building since the Redcliff Quarter in 1992.’

And Cubex Land has demolished an old 1970s office in Victoria Street to begin work next year on the Paragon, 76,000 sq ft of offices.

New development wave

According to statistics compiled by GVA Grimley, 662,544 sq ft of office space is now being built, although almost half have attracted prelets.

But 250,863 sq ft is ready for occupation.

Ben O’Connor, GVA Grimley’s office partner, predicts that the new wave of development could push rents up to £28/sq ft. That is just 50p below what Castlemore expects to get for Linear Park on Temple Quay, a 52,000 sq ft office scheme that begins on site next year.

Castlemore’s big selling point is that Temple Quay attracted this year’s biggest prelet when solicitor Burges Salmon took 160,000 sq ft.

‘Lawyers have been very good to the Bristol office market,’ says Simon Price, Castlemore’s agent, who is now letting Linear Park for his client. ‘Getting Burges Salmon was a massive boost to the market. It was the equivalent of getting an anchor tenant in a retail scheme.

‘But there has also been a spate of accountants taking space, like Baker Tilly, Smith Williamson and Grant Thornton.’

Public perception

Yet few Bristol agents consider that the public sector could fill office space. But a newcomer to the city has different ideas.

The Carlyle Group, a US private equity firm, looks at tenant demand on a broader canvas. Last year, the group’s UK property fund paid £24m to Topland for the redundant offices of HBOS subsidiary Clerical & Medical, which leased new space in Harbourside.

In November, Bristol City Council will consider Carlyle’s detailed application to demolish the 1970s offices and replace them with waterside buildings of 150,000 sq ft and 100,000 sq ft.

Carlyle associate director Mark Harris seeks to begin work on site as soon as planning consent is granted, undeterred by an online campaign to save Bristol’s last 1970s office block.

He sees tenant demand coming from the government.

‘As soon as everybody has signed, we shall be on site,’ he says. ‘We are confident about the product we are providing. There are government bodies that will pay a premium rent, and if they have to relocate from London by 2010, there will be very few buildings like this on offer.’

For the last few years all the big lettings have been to tenants relocating in Bristol. It may take a newcomer to cast the search further afield.

Yes good news on both those projects jj. I think ten storeys(about 35-40m) should work quite well in breaking up the dominance of 1 Redcliffe st. in that area, which is 15 storeys(60m).
Will be great if tq2 kicks off in earnest before the end of the year.

Does anyone have any idea when templegate might get going?

Is there any news on the proposed arena plans? It feels like it's never going to get built!!

PS - I can't wait... in 5 years both cardiff and Bristol should have their arenas built meaning there should be a big rivalry born in ice hockey between the two!!

Is there any news on the proposed arena plans? It feels like it's never going to get built!!

PS - I can't wait... in 5 years both cardiff and Bristol should have their arenas built meaning there should be a big rivalry born in ice hockey between the two!!

I/we really dont know whats happening there mate!!! The arena probably will get built as they have alreay spent around 45million on the project... The problem in that we have DUMB ASSES working on it and im not sure what the intentions are!!!

Hopfully we should have some more news closer to XMAS!!!

The plans for Victotia Street Development!!!

These are the latest renderings that have been put into the Council for permission... Dont see why they wouldnt get planning for it!!!

Victoria St Frontage...

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Thomas St Frontage...

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Obviously its not the VICTORIA TOWER that we were all hoping to see but its taller than most going up in Central Bristol...

I actually quite like the look of this building, Shame it could not be a few stories taller!!!

Reading through the planning statement, it says there was initially a plan for a 20storey building here, which was then reduced to first 15 then 11 storeys. After the tall buildings ruling came in it was reduced even further. I think ten will be enough for this site. Should be twice the height of the current lump.

Interesting picures for the Victoria street site

http://e2edocs.bristol-city.gov.uk/WAM/doc/Page-7?extension=.pdf&page=7&wmTransparency=0&id=264556&wmLocation=0&location=VOLUME1&contentType=application%2Fpdf&wmName=&pageCount=22

http://e2edocs.bristol-city.gov.uk/WAM/doc/Page-8?extension=.pdf&page=8&wmTransparency=0&id=264556&wmLocation=0&location=VOLUME1&contentType=application%2Fpdf&wmName=&pageCount=22


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but yet again, another potential site for a reasonably tall building goes begging. It is so frustrating that other than a couple of 12 storey buildings being built/planned, we are unlikely to get anything approved beyond that height.

What a complete waste of time the councils "height matters" masterplan / report was. As far as I recall the general concensus at the end was that people would like to see tall buildings i.e. 20 storeys or more in Bristol as long as they were well designed and in the right place. The council suggested that temple quay/meads, old market and broadmead/cabot circus/newfoundland road were suitable sites yet many developments are already up and running and not a sniff of a tall building (the harvey nicholls building is hardly a sky-scraper or the planned temple quay "tower")

I like the idea and setting of the proposed St Pauls Development, but come on, there is no way the council will go with the skyscraper option. From having no "skyscrapers" in Bristol to having one of the tallest outside of London? not a chance! If anything goes ahead there, it will be the lowest height option available.

^^you summed it up really.

Bristol-run by cretins. :yes:

Interesting picures for the Victoria street site

http://e2edocs.bristol-city.gov.uk/WAM/doc/Page-7?extension=.pdf&page=7&wmTransparency=0&id=264556&wmLocation=0&location=VOLUME1&contentType=application%2Fpdf&wmName=&pageCount=22

http://e2edocs.bristol-city.gov.uk/WAM/doc/Page-8?extension=.pdf&page=8&wmTransparency=0&id=264556&wmLocation=0&location=VOLUME1&contentType=application%2Fpdf&wmName=&pageCount=22


http://e2edocs.bristol-city.gov.uk/WAM/doc/Page-8?extension=.pdf&page=8&wmTransparency=0&id=264556&wmLocation=0&location=VOLUME1&contentType=application%2Fpdf&wmName=&pageCount=22


but yet again, another potential site for a reasonably tall building goes begging. It is so frustrating that other than a couple of 12 storey buildings being built/planned, we are unlikely to get anything approved beyond that height.

What a complete waste of time the councils "height matters" masterplan / report was. As far as I recall the general concensus at the end was that people would like to see tall buildings i.e. 20 storeys or more in Bristol as long as they were well designed and in the right place. The council suggested that temple quay/meads, old market and broadmead/cabot circus/newfoundland road were suitable sites yet many developments are already up and running and not a sniff of a tall building (the harvey nicholls building is hardly a sky-scraper or the planned temple quay "tower")

I like the idea and setting of the proposed St Pauls Development, but come on, there is no way the council will go with the skyscraper option. From having no "skyscrapers" in Bristol to having one of the tallest outside of London? not a chance! If anything goes ahead there, it will be the lowest height option available.

Its so rubbish that we cant get tall buildings in this city!!! The council are more interested in building OUT rather than UP...

The city boundries are getting bigger Day By Day but we are not getting taller (We are becoming FAT)... There stil the Bristol Uni development which shows promise I suppose...

I think Contractors and Architects are not coming up with Taller Designs now for the city because they know it will be a waste of time and to be fair nobody wants to waste time... The council blow out everything over 10 stories... Just a bunch of OLD FARTS sat there not evolving the city... SAME OLD SAME OLD!!!

Interesting picures for the Victoria street site

http://e2edocs.bristol-city.gov.uk/WAM/doc/Page-7?extension=.pdf&page=7&wmTransparency=0&id=264556&wmLocation=0&location=VOLUME1&contentType=application%2Fpdf&wmName=&pageCount=22

http://e2edocs.bristol-city.gov.uk/WAM/doc/Page-8?extension=.pdf&page=8&wmTransparency=0&id=264556&wmLocation=0&location=VOLUME1&contentType=application%2Fpdf&wmName=&pageCount=22


http://e2edocs.bristol-city.gov.uk/WAM/doc/Page-8?extension=.pdf&page=8&wmTransparency=0&id=264556&wmLocation=0&location=VOLUME1&contentType=application%2Fpdf&wmName=&pageCount=22


but yet again, another potential site for a reasonably tall building goes begging. It is so frustrating that other than a couple of 12 storey buildings being built/planned, we are unlikely to get anything approved beyond that height.

What a complete waste of time the councils "height matters" masterplan / report was. As far as I recall the general concensus at the end was that people would like to see tall buildings i.e. 20 storeys or more in Bristol as long as they were well designed and in the right place. The council suggested that temple quay/meads, old market and broadmead/cabot circus/newfoundland road were suitable sites yet many developments are already up and running and not a sniff of a tall building (the harvey nicholls building is hardly a sky-scraper or the planned temple quay "tower")

I like the idea and setting of the proposed St Pauls Development, but come on, there is no way the council will go with the skyscraper option. From having no "skyscrapers" in Bristol to having one of the tallest outside of London? not a chance! If anything goes ahead there, it will be the lowest height option available.

I can't see the Council approving these plans. The St thomas street frontage has a blank service shaft running up it and facing on to a street peppered with listed buildings. I love the Victoria street frontage and they have tried to reflect the "flat iron" building type the Council identified for this site....although its hardly difficult since the site is triangular!

Yes I know what you mean about the st. Thomas side. It could be the rear of any bland hotel or other undisinctive building. And I'm slightly disappointed with the blunted edge to the flat iron. I think to be truly distinctive or 'landmark', it should come to a perfectly sharp edge here, as in the old render posted before as many buildings have curved corners like we see in the new renders.

it looks fairly sound, but needs some fine tuning though.

as you said its the back which is the problem.

EDIT: in fact the back is downright horrible, those cheapo grey bricks (breeze/cinder blocks?) are visible! maybe some talented street artists (the other kind) will cover it up :|

I just thought i'd say what a massive difference was made to the Wills memorial building when they cleaned it up recently. It looks stunning - as good as new. You can see the dirty state it was in by looking at the adjoining building.
I wonder where the funding came from for this? It would be great to see the same kind of treatment applied to other historic buildings, such as the facade to Brunel's Temple Meads station(I mean the old proper station which is now the commonwealth museum). It is being choked to death by the immense traffic that passes there daily, including all the buses which stop right outside! Another building I noticed was in dire need of a wet wipe or two is the St. Mary on the quay on Colston Avenue. Oh and come to think of it, talking of St. Mary's churches, I think the Redcliffe one is starting to look a darker shade every day.

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^^ it (wills) does look very strange when compared to the rest of the building which hasn't been cleaned up (nearly black), plus you should see the back!

thats the problem with Cotswold stone, its one of the nicest and prettiest ones you'll ever get, however it stains too easily (or they show up too easily) and the carvings and mouldings wear away far too quickly compared to others being limestone and all, although it is far easier to mould and carve than others, sort of ironically.

Now im trying to imagine what it was like before! :lol: the wikipedia image isnt very clear and it was under scaffolding for so long i forgot!

Ithink the Cathedral on college green too is looking grey! and in fact what colour was St Mary Redcliffe!? :lol: they all need a good scrub like you said, i dont think our city's buildings look particularily good when they're like this to be honest...

a very nice pic Schmeek! i got to go into the Belfry and onto the roof that time, twas nice.

Saw on Pointless West last night that Bristol International have postponed their expansion plans pending further consideration of the environmental impact. They're projecting that airport will handle just under 7 million passengers next year as the new Ryan Air flights come on stream....the airport terminal is already bursting at the seams and I hate to imagine what its going to be like by the time the expansion gets under way...by that time it could be handling 8-9 million per year. If it gets any more hectic then I'll be looking for another airport to use...Brimingham or Cardiff perhaps. its just not worth fighting your way through the crowds in the departure lounge...I hated it when I last used the airport in the summer. I'm off on my hols in February and I'm staying with family and using Manchester to avoid the 3rd world experience of using Bristol International.

Saw on Pointless West last night that Bristol International have postponed their expansion plans pending further consideration of the environmental impact. They're projecting that airport will handle just under 7 million passengers next year as the new Ryan Air flights come on stream....the airport terminal is already bursting at the seams and I hate to imagine what its going to be like by the time the expansion gets under way...by that time it could be handling 8-9 million per year. If it gets any more hectic then I'll be looking for another airport to use...Brimingham or Cardiff perhaps. its just not worth fighting your way through the crowds in the departure lounge...I hated it when I last used the airport in the summer. I'm off on my hols in February and I'm staying with family and using Manchester to avoid the 3rd world experience of using Bristol International.

Thats RIDICULOUS!!! The airport needs expanding!!! Out of all the online petitions and votes etc I have seen the expansion getting the go ahead has always come out on top!!! Why are we listening to the MINORITY (Again)???

So what exactly is the news??? Whats happening when???

Thats RIDICULOUS!!! The airport needs expanding!!! Out of all the online petitions and votes etc I have seen the expansion getting the go ahead has always come out on top!!! Why are we listening to the MINORITY (Again)???

So what exactly is the news??? Whats happening when???

I suspect that the Airport operator has been scared off by the fact that the other regoinal airport expansion plans have all bit the dust. They are probably trying to build up a war chest of evidence to use at a public inquiry.

The other alternative is that they are running scared of the potential planning obligations that North Somerset may impose on any permission. I think they are concerned that they are going to have to pay out millions to improve roads around the Airport, and probably contribute to the Bristol Southern Bypass. They want to be sure that the expansion will generate revenues to justify the extra expense, rather than just expanding the airport and then falling victim to a change in government policy which will restrict air travel through punative taxation, resulting in no or significantly reduced gains from the expansion.

It's good to see that the harbourside is now progressing towards completion. It seems to have been sooo long since when canon's Marsh was a wasteground and it seems to have been a construction site even longer. As the covers are coming off The Crescent, I've noticed that a new building is rising quite rapidly in front of it. Not sure if it is plot 3a, or the other unnamed building on the Crest Nicholson site. And the land appears to be being readied for 1&2 college square which will front Anchor Rd.
I went down there on Sunday and it was the busiest I have seen it to date. Quite a few people were milling around or walking the waterfront, and for the first time I thought there was a sense of purpose about the place. Hopefully a sign of things to come. I might even have to eat my words at some point in the future, as the whole thing(even the colours)is starting to grow on me unexpectedly.

Full Bristol photo update will follow tomorrow...

Whatever happened to the building they were going to put up next to the Premier Inn and Magistrates Courts???

Pics Below...

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it was too tall :tongue3: ;)

it was too tall :tongue3: ;)

LOL, So they not building it??? It got planning permission though...

well, it looks a little large for the site its supposedly meant to be on, look on Live local (MSN maps) and have a look at the site and its really squeezed in there between the bus station and premier inn.

A permanent home for Bristol's preserved Concorde has moved a step closer.

Plans for a museum to house Concorde 216, the last of the supersonic airliners to fly, have at last been submitted to South Gloucestershire Council, nearly four years after it touched down at Filton for the final time.

A permanent home for the iconic jetliner would be built next to The Venue entertainment complex near The Mall at Cribbs Causeway.

The nine-acre site was left to the council by the late Jack Baylis, the multi-millionaire developer who built the out-of-town shopping centre, and his company JT Baylis has drawn up and submitted the scheme.

The Concorde Trust, representing the Bristol Aero Collection, Airbus UK, Rolls-Royce, Bristol International Airport, JT Baylis, WS Atkins, The Mall and South Gloucestershire Council, now has the task of raising the £12 million needed to build the complex.

But the Trust is hoping planners will help celebrate Concorde's fourth anniversary since she returned to her Bristol birthplace - on November 26, 2003 - by granting planning consent for the aircraft.

Oliver Dearden, for the Bristol Aero Collection which launched the bid to get Concorde 216 back to Bristol, said he was delighted the application is now in and would get the aircraft out of the elements where she is being corroded by wind and rain.

He said: "This is very exciting progress because a lot of work has gone into funding and preparing this planning application. Hopefully it is the start of a programme to get the aircraft under cover and decide how she should be displayed and presented to the public."

The Trust is hoping to attract about 90,000 visitors a year to make the project viable - not an unreasonable target when the adjoining shopping centre attracts 17 million shoppers a year.

Trust chairman Mike Littleton, from Bristol International Airport, said the submission of the planning application was good news.

He said: "We now have to raise the £12 million if we are to maintain our target to open the museum in four years.

The planning application by JT Baylis also includes a number of office buildings as part of an integrated site.

But nearby Almondsbury Parish Council said it will object to the scheme, although it is not opposed to the aviation museum, because it has traffic concerns over the number of vehicles generated by the office development.

A planning report could go before the council's planning committee in time for a decision to be made before Monday November 26.

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anyone got more info on this like a link to the planning application

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This is the planning application for the 11 Story Tower near the Marlbrough Street Bus Station just off St James Roundabout in Central Bristol...

http://e2eweb.bristol.gov.uk/PublicAccess/tdc/DcApplication/application_detailview.aspx?keyval=JFNVY4DNCL000&searchtype=PROPERTY&module=P3

It says "DELAGATED DECISION" on the Status bit... Does anyone know what this means???

granted subject to conditions

Has anybody else heard that UKBW on Anchor Road are moving... Well its why they have a massive sale on...

I thought recently that every building around there is being kncked down and rebuilt but this one we have heard no news on...

Well I thought I would have a look to see if its being developed and as it happns there was a planning app put forward on 6/9/07 for a 4 story office block and another app put in the same date to demolish the current building currently on the site...

The Devlopment is done by CUBEX who are also currently on site just two doors down working on COLLEGE SQUARE HOUSE...

Heres the link to the planning app:

http://e2eweb.bristol.gov.uk/PublicAccess/tdc/DcApplication/application_detailview.aspx?keyval=JNZKVEDN0NR00&searchtype=PROPERTY&module=P3

Heres some pictures of the proposal which is pending consideration...

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Looks like that would probably get permission and definetly smart end up the corner. This is the latest article in todays evening post on the Old Post office sorting depot next to temple meads. http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=145365&command=displayContent&sourceNode=145191&contentPK=18778575&folderPk=83726&pNodeId=144922

DERELICT OLD OFFICE TO BE SORTED SOON

The redevelopment of one of the city's biggest eyesores is set to begin soon, more than two years after planning permission was granted.Work is due to start in the new year on transforming the former Royal Mail sorting office in St Philip's into plush offices and flats.

The derelict building in Cattle Market Road has stood empty for the past 10 years since the Royal Mail moved its main sorting office for the city to Filton.

It has become an eyesore with smashed windows and graffiti.

Two years ago Bedminster teenager Daniel Jones fell 20ft through a glass roof of the building and fractured his skull.

His mother Rachel Joyner contacted the Post to warn of the dangers facing children who used the vandalised site as a playground.

A company called Media Office bought the site for £2 million from the Post Office in 2000.

Its identity was not revealed at the time of the sale, when it outbid the South West Regional Development Agency, which wanted the site for the Bristol Arena project.

The company, owned by Thai real estate firm Kian Gwan, announced plans to convert the building into offices for website designers and internet-related firms.

But the plans were abandoned with the collapse of the dotcom bubble.

They were revived in 2005 by Media Office's sister company Shepherdess Holdings.

It then obtained permission on October 25 that year to go ahead with a mixed scheme of apartments and offices at the site.

Now it looks as if work is finally about to start on the scheme which planning officials described as "bold and imaginative".

Media Office spokesman Daniel Breighton said: "Work is due to start in the new year.

"It will be a mixed use scheme comprising offices and residential apartments with ground floor amenities including a gym, a bar and shops."

Under the plans, the upper six floors of the building, together with the upper floors of an adjoining 1930s building, would be converted into 107 apartments.

A third building which would be erected on the east of the site would provide studio-type office space.

Mr Breighton said: "The office space would be geared towards the creative industries such as advertising and website designers.

"Bristol has a very strong creative base with TV and internet companies and designers."

Building contractors for the work are currently being chosen. The derelict building is considered to be a key site in the overall regeneration of the St Philip's area of the city.

Dear all

Wapping Wharf has a planning appplication in for some of the public realm works. Looks like this might finally start to gather a bit of momentum. These are some of the images:

http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/8988/wapping2vc1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/294/wapping4ot8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

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http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/8002/wappingwharf1rz6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Also Redcliffe wharf has a new website:www.redcliffewharf.co.uk The scheme is still for a market building, active uses (bars etc) , boatbuilding, residential and office space.

These are some of the images:

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Redcliffe Wharf... thats the site of this years URBAN BEACH right???

The pics dont look so spectacular... Not a dense project by any means...

Yeah your right, where the old beach was!
The site is reasonably constrained, redcliffe caves, views or redcliffe parade and St Mary Redcliffe. That and the need to retain the boat building and provide public open space has really impacted on the scale of the development. Looks reasonable interesting though it you have a look on the website.

Dear all

Wapping Wharf has a planning appplication in for some of the public realm works. Looks like this might finally start to gather a bit of momentum. These are some of the images:

Does this include the Museum or is that a seperate project???

Whats likly to be included on this site??? Cafes Bars Restraunts apartments???

Also does anyone know wether the SS Great Britain site (Great Western Dockyard) has started???

Gee

The museum is seperate but is intrinsically linked in terms of timescale and actual implementation. They are likely to happen at the same time.

The scheme has outline planning permission for 57,000m2 of development, This will include around 590 homes, shops, restaurants, offices and scope for a 200-bed hotel. A number of listed buildings will be restored and a public square and pedestrian routes to the waterfront will be created. Umberslade the developer will contribute 20 per cent affordable housing and £1.5 million towards building the museum of Bristol.

Yes the development at SS Great britain has sort of started, buildings have been demolished but they are only at the archaeological dig stage.

Great posts Gee & PJ - thanks...

in order -

the Anchor road ones looks great, it's just an infill project but looks to be a high standard. Gee, are you posting pictures from pdf's? if so, nice one! &, how the hell do you do that???

The start of work on the post office site on the other side of Temple Meads is massive news & is going to make a HUGE difference to that part of Bristol...... this could be the catalyst for the Arena project to get going cos the 2 sites will link up to create a massive new are that will almost stretch up to paintworks!!! next step is to put another weir into the river avon new cut so it doesn't look like a sewerage outflow ditch....

I think that the Redcliffe wharf development looks perfect for the site - as you say PJ; great little website & it sounds like BCC & the developer are really trying to put something appropriate in place here..... on a summers day this is one of the most mesmerising parts of the city i reckon.... important not to lose that feel.

Gee, are you posting pictures from pdf's? if so, nice one! &, how the hell do you do that???.

Trade Secrets!!! LOL


The start of work on the post office site on the other side of Temple Meads is massive news & is going to make a HUGE difference to that part of Bristol...... this could be the catalyst for the Arena project to get going cos the 2 sites will link up to create a massive new are that will almost stretch up to paintworks!!!

Maybe even Templegate Project will get going aswell!!!

Trade Secrets!!! LOL

Thanks mate....

more news for cab circ -

http://www.propertyweek.com/Pictures/460xAny/f/q/f/Bristol_Hugo.jpg

Cruise and Hugo Boss sign in Bristol
09:45 | 26.10.07

Designer retailers Cruise and Hugo Boss have signed up for stores at Bristol’s Quakers Friars scheme.

By Laura Chesters

Quakers Friars, an area within Hammerson and Land Securities’ 1m sq ft Cabot Circus scheme in the city, is anchored by Harvey Nichols.

Hammerson and Land Securities’ Bristol Alliance is developing the £500m scheme on the Broadmead site within the city to open in the autumn of next year.


Cruise, which has taken a 10,000 sq ft store, and Hugo Boss, which has signed up for a 4,000 sq ft store, will flank the new Harvey Nichols on the corner site on Quakers Friars. The Hugo Boss store will be opposite the new stores for Top Shop and H&M, while the flagship Cruise store will overlook the main square.

Hugo Boss and Cruise join recent signings LK Bennett, Kurt Geiger, Ghost, Lacoste and Thomas Pink.


Not my cup of tea but more than welcome!!!

They really seem to be concentrating on getting good luxury shops into the Quaker Friars area (which is good).

I just hope they balance it up with cafe's, restaurants and bars around there as well to stop it becoming a ghost town once the shops have closed.

It's less than a year now isn't it until the whole lot opens? I wonder if they'll open it all at once or open it in stages - Quaker Friars could probably be opened seperately from the rest of the Cabot Circus.

i agree its a good thing, hard to believe that the building itself was resigned to the backs of buildings for so long :ohno: and so disrespectfully.

I'm not too keen on the Harbourside thing though.

The Cabot Circus looks great and the construction is really underway the moment. I was down there on Friday afternoon. Now all they have to do is demolish the McDonald's opposite the Galleries entrance which quite frankly - is a tip. The builing looks horrible and it's dirty on the inside. Perhaps, an exotic restaurant would do nicely there.

I've also noticed they've placed another Starbucks opposite Debenhams. There's now one there, in the Arcade, Park Street, Clifton Triangle and Hotwells! Any more for any more?

they're not as bad as Caffe Gusto! :bash: they have 9 locations here!
(although they do have wireless internet in some though)

while we're on the subject what exactly is going here?

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I've also noticed they've placed another Starbucks opposite Debenhams. There's now one there, in the Arcade, Park Street, Clifton Triangle and Hotwells! Any more for any more?

That starbucks (on Horsefair) is actually the biggest one inthe country with 90 seats!!! Shows we here in Bristol must like Overpriced Coffee etc more than LONDONERS!!! LOL

Mind you I do like poping in now and again...

While we're on the subject what exactly is going here?
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I think its the make over happening of the Existing Broadmead and is called BROADMEAD BID... The other half will also get done...

They are putting in new trees, paving, redecorating and recladding/glassing buildings, benches and seating, lighting, street art, bins, bollards, parking for Cycles/bikes etc etc... I think its so the new cabot circus part wont look out of place as the whole of Broadmead will be revamped!!!

Should look good... Heres the website:

http://www.bristolbroadmead.co.uk/BID/index.html

And some pics:

THE STREETS THAT ARE PART OF THE MAKE OVER!!!

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THE AREA EFFECTED!!!

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Thanks mate....

more news for cab circ -

http://www.propertyweek.com/Pictures/460xAny/f/q/f/Bristol_Hugo.jpg

Cruise and Hugo Boss sign in Bristol
09:45 | 26.10.07

Designer retailers Cruise and Hugo Boss have signed up for stores at Bristol’s Quakers Friars scheme.

By Laura Chesters

Quakers Friars, an area within Hammerson and Land Securities’ 1m sq ft Cabot Circus scheme in the city, is anchored by Harvey Nichols.

Hammerson and Land Securities’ Bristol Alliance is developing the £500m scheme on the Broadmead site within the city to open in the autumn of next year.


Cruise, which has taken a 10,000 sq ft store, and Hugo Boss, which has signed up for a 4,000 sq ft store, will flank the new Harvey Nichols on the corner site on Quakers Friars. The Hugo Boss store will be opposite the new stores for Top Shop and H&M, while the flagship Cruise store will overlook the main square.

Hugo Boss and Cruise join recent signings LK Bennett, Kurt Geiger, Ghost, Lacoste and Thomas Pink.


Not my cup of tea but more than welcome!!!

This is fantastic news for bristol. The range of stores coming to cabot circus is going to be a big draw for visitors. Im sure the Mall at cribbs isnt looking forward to the opening. The only real draw they have is John lewis and the free parking.Never liked the shopping experience up there anyhow bring on september 2008!

I've also noticed they've placed another Starbucks opposite Debenhams. There's now one there, in the Arcade, Park Street, Clifton Triangle and Hotwells! Any more for any more?

Where I used to work in London, near St Pauls Cathedral, there were 4 starbucks along the same road. There were 2 litterally just opposite each other on the road.

Starbucks (alledgedly) has a policy of moving into an area, flooding it with their outlets, so the competition folds, and then reducing their number of outlets again to a more financially stable amount.

This is fantastic news for bristol. The range of stores coming to cabot circus is going to be a big draw for visitors. Im sure the Mall at cribbs isnt looking forward to the opening. The only real draw they have is John lewis and the free parking.Never liked the shopping experience up there anyhow bring on september 2008!

And does John Lewis really have anything extra that Debenhams, House of Frasier and Harvey Nichols wont be offering?

Just checking out the website, apparently the Harvey Nichols and Cinema de Lux buildings are meant to be handed over for internal fitting in December. 9 months for that seems a long time though. I still think they might open it in stages when new shops etc. are ready.

And does John Lewis really have anything extra that Debenhams, House of Frasier and Harvey Nichols wont be offering?

Just checking out the website, apparently the Harvey Nichols and Cinema de Lux buildings are meant to be handed over for internal fitting in December. 9 months for that seems a long time though. I still think they might open it in stages when new shops etc. are ready.

I think John Lewis will come back eventually... They are a captive AUDIENCE at Cabot Circus/Broadmead and they have enough people to have two stores running... Maybe a smaller version of the department store will spring up... They have got to be PISSED off they ever left though... I heard Selfridges might be renewing their interest in Bristol soon... Good or Bad??? Hmmm...

And does John Lewis really have anything extra that Debenhams, House of Frasier and Harvey Nichols wont be offering?

Yes im afraid it does... It has the John Lewis Brand which is obviously not avalible anywhere else in the UK apart from John Lewis stores and Online... John Lewis is a much stronger brand than House Of Frazer, Harvey Nicks and Debenhams as John Lewis actually MANUFACTURE QUALITY GOODS rather than just selling BRANDED goods i.e Sony, Bosch etc etc in the electrical world and Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger etc etc in the Fashion World... Obviously the list goes on...

John Lewis MANUFACTURE products that have again and again beaten Rivals (i.e Sony etc) for top prizes in mags like Which? for quality and value etc etc...

THATS WHERE JOHN LEWIS REALLY MAKE THEIR MONEY!!!

I think John Lewis will come back eventually... They are a captive AUDIENCE at Cabot Circus/Broadmead and they have enough people to have two stores running... Maybe a smaller version of the department store will spring up... They have got to be PISSED off they ever left though... I heard Selfridges might be renewing their interest in Bristol soon... Good or Bad??? Hmmm...

Selefridges only dropped out because they had just been bought by some canadian company and were stopping all their expansion plans for a couple of years while they sorted out the take over.

That was a couple of years ago though now so I wouldn't be surprised if they have started to think about expansion again. However, the problem now is that they've missed the flagship store in Bristol and there isn't really anything else coming up that'll be as iconic for them. They may need to look elsewhere now in the area - and Bath have got a new shopping centre being built right now as well....

Selefridges only dropped out because they had just been bought by some canadian company and were stopping all their expansion plans for a couple of years while they sorted out the take over.

That was a couple of years ago though now so I wouldn't be surprised if they have started to think about expansion again. However, the problem now is that they've missed the flagship store in Bristol and there isn't really anything else coming up that'll be as iconic for them. They may need to look elsewhere now in the area - and Bath have got a new shopping centre being built right now as well....

Bath, Although historic and a very beutiful city theres, I think no chance Selfridges would even consider it... Mainly because they only go into Major Citys and ones with lots of people...

They may buy a site (as they have done in Glasgow) and build a New Store... Theres many Sites in and Around Broadmead ie the ATS and random shops on the right opposite Staples and maybe even a Store in the Bridewell island (They may even be able to anchor the development)... Infact theres a building next to Staples and that Car Park which could even be built on... Thats a Good Location...!

Maybe wishful thinking but I cant see how they can afford to go into Bath unless its a smaller Boutique Store...

This is fantastic news for bristol. The range of stores coming to cabot circus is going to be a big draw for visitors. Im sure the Mall at cribbs isnt looking forward to the opening. The only real draw they have is John lewis and the free parking.Never liked the shopping experience up there anyhow bring on september 2008!

The letting for Cabot Circus are really starting to take shape. This is a list of confirmed tenants for Cabot Circus so far. The scheme has over 100 new shops and 20 new restaurants/cafes due to open next autumn. The confirmed list represents roughly 50% of the total.

Stores - 45 confirmed
House of Fraser - 170,000 sq ft
Harvey Nichols - 32,000 sq ft
Zara - 22,000 sq ft
H&M - 30,000 sq ft
New Look 35,000 sq ft
Next - 36,000 sq ft
Top Shop - 26,000 sq ft
Top Man
Wallis
Dorothy Perkins - 20,000 sq ft
Burton
Bershka - 5,700 sq ft
Monsoon
Hugo Boss
Cruise - 10,000 sq ft
LK Bennett
Kurt Geiger
Ghost
Lacoste
Thomas Pink.
Aldo - 2,200 sq ft
Hobbs - 4,000 sq ft
Ted Baker - 4,600 sq ft
Reiss
Barratts
Schuh
JD Sports
Pravins
Links of London
Fraser Hart
Ernest Jones
H. Samuel
Goldsmiths
Claire's
Lombok
Body Shop
Game
Carphone Warehouse
Sony
Orange
3-Store
Virgin
Fossil
Hotel Chocolate
Sonex

Cafés & Restaurants - 15 confirmed
Tampopo
Carluccio's
Brasserie Blanc
Costa
Giraffe
Nando's
Leon
Zizzi
Gourmet Burger Kitchen
Amano Cafe
YO! Sushi
Crussh
Love Juice
Pret a Manger
Café Rouge

they're not as bad as Caffe Gusto! :bash: they have 9 locations here!
(although they do have wireless internet in some though)

while we're on the subject what exactly is going here?

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All this site is owned by the Bristol Alliance and when I spoke to Steve Wherle at the Bristol alliance I asked him this exact question. Would they be pulling this down and redeveloping on a larger scale?

Unfortunatly the answer is no, because he said they did not want to split the main shopping area in two with a new massive building site. He said they were planning to improve the units and I have subsequently noticed a few applications to renovate and re clad the shop fronts.

So far the bits that have permission or applications are: Mc Donalds near the galleries to Curry's and McDonalds on horesfair to The London Camera Exchange. The plans are to renovate and replace windows, add new portland stone pilasters, grantie skirting, new signage, clean the existing stone work and add some wooden cladding. The following links are the applications:

http://e2eweb.bristol.gov.uk/PublicAccess/tdc/DcApplication/application_detailview.aspx?caseno=JMG0USDN0NR00
http://http://e2eweb.bristol.gov.uk/PublicAccess/tdc/DcApplication/application_detailview.aspx?caseno=JPQKANDN0NR00

This combined with the Broadmead Bid improvements posted by Gee recently and others before should make a really signifcant difference. The first unit to recieve improvements is the new High and Mighty Store on Horesefair. Basically I think the improve is pretty decent and has made me appreciate the architecture in Broadmead so much more. If they could replace all the old windows in Broadmead with full glass then it would all look so much better!

http://e2eweb.bristol.gov.uk/PublicAccess/tdc/DcApplication/application_detailview.aspx?caseno=JMWS8XDN0DZ00

It looks like we're going to have a few empty units around the place, hope it doesn't drain the other areas,
one thing i like is the amount of eating places (although i still prefer to eat at the independents)

I went to Exeter last Monday and they, at the moment put our main Chain Retail area to shame, (although in fairness the city centre is all they have, and they have a real lack of decent if any independents;although they are there...) its quite nice too,
its like a mini version (or just another albeit smaller version of the redeveloped quaters all the main cities are getting if thats your attitude :tonue3:) of the one we're getting, one thing i really like although i doubt most people would notice (and its used rather sparingly unfortunately) they've used the pinky red sandstone in the development.

If Cabot circus turns out anything like the Princesshays one (ignoring the clone town associations and what not) then i look foward to it opening :yes:

Cheers,PJ1979! thats a shame though, although i guess its not too bad!

i wasnt thinking that just another cabot circus area would be built, more rather just building better buildings or something if that makes sense!

well at least they're doing something with the area!

:banana:Princesshay in exeter is a brand new development that has only been open a month.
So it's no wonder it puts our retail center to shame. But our cabot circus is on a much bigger scale and will put bristol back up the rankings where it belongs upon opening.
Princesshay had the same developers as us so i guess it is a preview of what is to come.
Iv noticed some other renders on the cabot circus site under images pages 1-3. well worth a look. new Next store looks impressive.:cheers:

what i liked about the one in Exeter is that, rather than have a shopping centre, they chose to have streets instead (parts are undercover of sorts,) and is well linked to the rest of the area, whereas the cabot is like a cul-de-sac and doesn't offer much to the surrounding areas, and looks like it has the characteristics of a shopping center despite the new ''streets''.

is anyone else supprised that Apple (No not the fruit...) have not yet signed up???

there's one in Exeter :tongue3:

i don't think they make much money in any of their branches though...

NNnnnooooooooooooooo! Please someone say this can't be true!

COSTS SCUPPER UNI'S SAIL-SHAPED TOWER

Evening Post 30 October 2007

Plans for a landmark sail-shaped tower have been dropped from a £300 million revamp of Bristol University.Two years ago, the 13-storey tower concept was unveiled as the centrepiece of the university's master plan for major rebuilding, aimed at giving it the facilities to become one of the world's top universities.

But costs of the 15-year project have already soared from the original estimate of £250 million and the university has just undergone a major pay shake-up for its 5,500 staff, which has cost £8m.

Now the university says the sail tower was only ever an idea sketched out by an architect and had never been a confirmed part of the master plan.

The 55m (180ft) tower, which was in the plans approved by the city council, was proposed on a site in Tyndall Avenue next to the university's sports centre.

It was to have been the "jewel in the crown" of a new complex, called the students' learning resource centre, which would have replaced the out-of-date library and housed teaching and study rooms.

It would have been some 18.2m (60ft) taller than the Wills Memorial Building in Queen's Road, which is 36m high (120ft).

It would have dominated the city's skyline as its position on a hill would have meant it overlooked taller office blocks Castlemead in Broadmead at 80m (262ft) and the former Bristol and West building in Broad Quay at about 60m (200ft).

University spokesman Barry Taylor said: "The sail building appeared in early sketches, which were only meant to give an idea of the potential location and size of buildings.

"It was just one idea among several but it got plenty of coverage because of its striking shape."

The tower was to have been built in the second phase of the redevelopment.

The first phase of work is well under way, with an £11m nanoscience and quantum information building under construction, and the HH Wills Physics Building undergoing a £40m refurbishment.

A new mathematics building is at the design stage, as is a new school of biological sciences, which is currently housed in Victorian buildings. The new biosciences school will be built on the old children's hospital site, which the university bought for £3.4m in 2001.

Mr Taylor said there was a also major project to improve library and computing services for students and there were plans to house the students' union within the university precinct. The union is currently based in a building on a three-acre site in Queen's Road.

Mr Taylor described Bristol University as "the most financially robust university in the UK" but did not deny that the pay restructuring had placed increased pressure on the revenue budget.

Everyone from porters to professors had their salary reviewed and more people had their pay increased than reduced.

The review was called the Reward Agenda and was carried out in line with a national agreement.

Staff were on nine different pay scales, which was considered unfair. Mr Taylor said: "The overall effect was that the pay bill went up but was absolutely essential and an overall success.

"This has inevitably increased pressure on the revenue budget. It makes it more of a challenge to service the borrowings the university has to make to carry out major development work. It is a challenge we are meeting.

"It just means we have got to be that much more careful at controlling costs and more skilled at raising income.

"If we had maintained the old pay set-up then maybe the university would not have had quite the same degree of pressure on its revenue budget.

"But to have carried on as we were would have flown in the face of logic, fairness and a national agreement."

A new £3.1 million library complex to serve Easton is to be built near the M32.

Bristol City Council has identified a site near the St Paul's roundabout at junction three of the motorway, on a piece of derelict land on the corner of Lower Ashley Road and Millpond Street.

The authority would like to complete the project, known as Junction Three Creative Learning Centre, by 2009/10. The Big Lottery Fund's community libraries programme has just awarded £1.9 million to the project which will be built in what is one of the most disadvantaged wards in the city.

The scheme would also include housing and business or shop units to help pay the rest of the cost.

About two thirds of the site is already owned by the council and negotiations to buy the remaining land are underway.

A number of other locations are also being looked at in case the site falls through.

Funding arrangements and details of the design will be worked on over the next six months.

As well as supplying books and interactive material, the library will also contain a creche, play facilities, creative zones and training facilities.

Labour councillor Rosalie Walker, executive member for culture and leisure, said: "This is excellent news and we're delighted with the £1.95 million award.

"This is very much a partnership initiative, involving a range of charity and voluntary groups in Easton.

"We intend to use the money to build a creative learning centre, featuring a new community library and space to offer learning and skills training opportunities.

"A significant amount of work still needs to be done to secure the land needed for this new cultural centre and any proposed scheme will also need to secure planning permission.

"The city council looks forward to working closely with the community of Easton, ensuring that any final scheme reflects the needs of local people and plays a key role in regenerating the area.

"There's a lot more work to be done with our partners over the next six months to assess how the scheme might be developed on the preferred site or whether other options might be better."

The funding is part of £10.7 million which was awarded to seven communities across the South West through the Big Lottery Fund's Community Libraries programme.

North Somerset received more than £800,000 to provide facilities and activities for young people.

Meanwhile Yate was awarded £1.5 million to extend its existing library.

Some 58 library authorities across England will benefit from a massive £80 million investment helping communities offer a broader range of activities and people who may not have previously used their libraries.

Mark Cotton, the Big Lottery Fund's head of the South West, said: "The region has done exceptionally well to receive more than £10 million of funding for community libraries.

"An increasing number of people are using library services and it is clear that our local libraries are at their best when they act as focal points for community life."

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NNnnnooooooooooooooo! Please someone say this can't be true!

COSTS SCUPPER UNI'S SAIL-SHAPED TOWER

Evening Post 30 October 2007

Plans for a landmark sail-shaped tower have been dropped from a £300 million revamp of Bristol University.Two years ago, the 13-storey tower concept was unveiled as the centrepiece of the university's master plan for major rebuilding, aimed at giving it the facilities to become one of the world's top universities.

But costs of the 15-year project have already soared from the original estimate of £250 million and the university has just undergone a major pay shake-up for its 5,500 staff, which has cost £8m.

Now the university says the sail tower was only ever an idea sketched out by an architect and had never been a confirmed part of the master plan.

The 55m (180ft) tower, which was in the plans approved by the city council, was proposed on a site in Tyndall Avenue next to the university's sports centre.

It was to have been the "jewel in the crown" of a new complex, called the students' learning resource centre, which would have replaced the out-of-date library and housed teaching and study rooms.

It would have been some 18.2m (60ft) taller than the Wills Memorial Building in Queen's Road, which is 36m high (120ft).

It would have dominated the city's skyline as its position on a hill would have meant it overlooked taller office blocks Castlemead in Broadmead at 80m (262ft) and the former Bristol and West building in Broad Quay at about 60m (200ft).

University spokesman Barry Taylor said: "The sail building appeared in early sketches, which were only meant to give an idea of the potential location and size of buildings.

"It was just one idea among several but it got plenty of coverage because of its striking shape."

The tower was to have been built in the second phase of the redevelopment.

The first phase of work is well under way, with an £11m nanoscience and quantum information building under construction, and the HH Wills Physics Building undergoing a £40m refurbishment.

A new mathematics building is at the design stage, as is a new school of biological sciences, which is currently housed in Victorian buildings. The new biosciences school will be built on the old children's hospital site, which the university bought for £3.4m in 2001.

Mr Taylor said there was a also major project to improve library and computing services for students and there were plans to house the students' union within the university precinct. The union is currently based in a building on a three-acre site in Queen's Road.

Mr Taylor described Bristol University as "the most financially robust university in the UK" but did not deny that the pay restructuring had placed increased pressure on the revenue budget.

Everyone from porters to professors had their salary reviewed and more people had their pay increased than reduced.

The review was called the Reward Agenda and was carried out in line with a national agreement.

Staff were on nine different pay scales, which was considered unfair. Mr Taylor said: "The overall effect was that the pay bill went up but was absolutely essential and an overall success.

"This has inevitably increased pressure on the revenue budget. It makes it more of a challenge to service the borrowings the university has to make to carry out major development work. It is a challenge we are meeting.

"It just means we have got to be that much more careful at controlling costs and more skilled at raising income.

"If we had maintained the old pay set-up then maybe the university would not have had quite the same degree of pressure on its revenue budget.

"But to have carried on as we were would have flown in the face of logic, fairness and a national agreement."

NOOOOOOOO!!!!!! INDEED!!!

This one was approved by the council aswell.!!! Theres should be a campain to get it built!!!

The tower would look wicked!!! Hopfully they'll come to their sences!!!

Plans have been unveiled for a £2.2 million sports pavilion to serve sporting groups and the growing community in Emersons Green and Downend.

South Gloucestershire Council has given its backing to the flagship pavilion which will bring badly needed sports facilities into the area.

The new building will include at least 10 changing rooms, showers, a boxing ring and a clubroom and bar area.

Council chiefs say it will serve the huge new playing field complex that has been completed at the site alongside the 4,500-plus new homes at Emersons Green.

The local authority is dipping into its coffers to find £1.2m towards the project and is hoping to persuade the Football Foundation to come up with the remaining £1m in the form of a grant.

Pomphrey Hill Community Sports Association, which represents more than 3,000 local people, has been lined up to take over the running of the sports complex.

Emersons Green councillors Colin Hunt, James Hunt and Ian Morris, along with Rodway councillors Carol McCarthy, Adrian Millward and Kevin Seager led the campaign.

Mr Hunt said: "The lack of leisure facilities in the Emersons Green and Mangotsfield area is a major local issue which we have been campaigning to get addressed.

"This pavilion is desperately needed and will serve thousands of local people, providing sporting clubs and residents with the quality facilities they deserve.

"There are 10 football pitches which have been in use since September, yet do not have the changing facilities which are desperately needed by local clubs."

"We are absolutely delighted that the new administration has decided to support our residents and communities and deliver this vital facility for our area."

He praised the Pomphrey Hill Community Sports Association for its hard work in pressing for the project and building up the business case to support a sponsorship bid to the Football Foundation.

Heather Goddard, executive councillor for community services, said: "I completely accept the case put to me by local councillors and sports groups about the need for this pavilion and have no hesitation in supporting it."

Just wondered if anyone has heard or seen anything about the sale of New Bridewell Police Station.

This is a extract from a Police Committee minutes report in Nov 2006:

Members have previously received a report on the marketing of New Bridewell which will be surplus to requirements once Contact House, Feeder Road is completed. The marketing of this property has commenced by way of an extremely large advertisement banner, a dedicated website and advertisements in both the local media and national property magazines.

Minutes May 2007 state that Contact House Feeder Road is now complete and staff are begining to relocate. It also states that selling the site to the highest bidder has hit a few problems but due to the information relating to finacial matters being confidential the trail goes cold.

I appreciate that alot of the buildings on Nelson Street are likley to become available to the market in the short term but this site combined with Old Bridewell that is being developed by Urban Splash could really start to make an impact this end of Broadmead.

Anyone heard anything about this or other buildings e.g. old telephone excahnge or old magistrates court?

well Urban splash have somesort of information centre one of the buildings there (in the old firestation nightclub)
That area really is a deadzone, despite havingsome interesting places, its sort of a wall spliting the centre in two almost.

The Urbansplash info centre in the centre is actually for Lakeshore - their south Bristol development. They obviously thought that they'd get more passing trade there rather than next to the big Woolworths in Hartcliffe.

I've not personally been down there to have a look but I assume it's just for Lakeshore and doesn't have anything on Bridewell Island.

More great new in the toast....
a) this gaurantees a start on the 2 office buildings fronting anchor road & linking to explore
b) the buildings look like they'll be fantastic & the little bit of public space around them will really add to the feel of completedness round here
c)650 MORE staff working in the area will definately end the feeling of a lifeless area. HBOS are moving thousands in to harbourside in a few months so it'll start to feel very different from then - by 2009 it'll be buzzing!!


http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/shared/contentbinaries/publish/1725774.jpgHARBOURSIDE LURES CITY STOCKBROKERS

10:40 - 30 October 2007

Stockbroking firm Hargreaves Lansdown is to move into a new £30 million headquarters on the city's Harbourside, the Evening Post can reveal.

Founders Peter Hargreaves and Stephen Lansdown, who is also chairman of Bristol City FC, have decided to move the firm from its current four Clifton offices to Harbourside.

The company is to move into number 1 College Square, a 100,000 sq ft office building that is to be built as part of Crest Nicholson's Canon's Marsh development.



The building will stand between the Ibis hotel and Anchor Road, next to @Bristol.

Hargreaves Lansdown employs around 650 staff across four Clifton offices, all of whom will relocate to Harbourside.

The group will have its new headquarters close to those of Lloyds TSB and HBOS and will lease the new building as part of a 17-year deal.

Planning permission was granted by Bristol City Council in September and construction work will start on the new building early in the new year.

Hargreaves Lansdown, founded in Bristol in 1981, floated on the London Stock Market in May, netting each founder around £80 million.

The windfall added to the pair's existing fortunes.

According to April's 2007 Sunday Times Rich List, published the month before the flotation, Mr Hargreaves and Mr Lansdown were each worth £245 million, ranking them at equal 301st in the UK list.

Ian White, director of Crest Nicholson Regeneration, said: "We are really pleased to welcome Hargreaves Lansdown to Harbourside.

"Coming just 18 months after a deal was secured to bring HBOS to the area it firmly establishes the area as a favourite among the financial services sector.

"With Marks and Spencer already open, top quality restaurants in Carpe Diem and Jack's Brasserie and coffee bars all in place this will be an exciting place for people to work with all the facilities of a city centre location."

The new Hargreaves Lansdown HQ is a far cry from the firm's first office.

It was started by Peter Hargreaves in the front bedroom of his mews house in Clifton Village.

Mr Hargreaves said: "It has been an exciting year for our business founded 26 years ago in Clifton. We are delighted to have found a location close to Clifton where many of our staff live.

"Harbourside is shaping up to become one of the most desirable locations to work in Bristol with all the new shops, bars and restaurants in close proximity."

Hargreaves Lansdown will move in during 2009

The Urbansplash info centre in the centre is actually for Lakeshore - their south Bristol development. They obviously thought that they'd get more passing trade there rather than next to the big Woolworths in Hartcliffe.

I've not personally been down there to have a look but I assume it's just for Lakeshore and doesn't have anything on Bridewell Island.

it be odd if they didnt have something seeing as they are actually in bridewell :lol:

Interesting (& unbiased) stuff from 'The Guardian' !!!!! :cheers:

Bristol: seemingly unstoppable growth
Three huge regeneration projects and a remarkably prosperous population bolster a hot reputation in the property market, writes Graham Norwood
http://image.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Money/Pix/pictures/2007/10/29/Bristol460.jpgBristol offers an exciting mix of the old and new. Photograph: London Aerial Photo Library/Corbis/Sandy Stockwell

Bristol is a city on the move. The most respected house price indices put its annual price growth at 15% (Nationwide) and 16% (Halifax).

Three big, city-centre regeneration schemes are under way, each costing around £500m, and there are many other developments taking place across this handsome city. The autumn slowdown has so far been felt only minimally.

"The market remains relatively buoyant. The home information packs' phasing upset the equilibrium between buyers and sellers, but it's still an encouraging picture overall," says Stephen Morris of Davies & May estate agents.

The most sought-after "old" Bristol location remains Clifton, a moneyed and elegant area known for its period splendour, open spaces and suspension bridge - and for price tags of £750,000-£2m for the best terraced or detached Victorian houses.

But as Bristol enthusiastically begins regenerating the relics of its industrial past, a new, centrally located residential quarter is coming into its own.


New developments

Harbourside Bristol is the largest dock regeneration scheme in Europe, covering 75 acres and eventually incorporating more than 1,000 homes.

Crest Nicholson's first 450 waterside apartments, costing between £125,000 and £500,000, are now being occupied, while another 275 homes (this time with prices up to £750,000) will be finished early next year.

At Broadmead, the main shopping quarter in Bristol, a 35-acre site will have 1m sq ft of retail and leisure space available within the next year, including a Harvey Nichols store and a £5m refurbishment of the medieval Quakers Friars hall to house a restaurant run by Raymond Blanc.

This scheme is in turn encouraging the sprucing up of older homes in the down-at-heel Old Market, St Paul's and Stokes Croft areas of the city.

Elsewhere in Bristol, the famous old cigarette factories of the Bedminster suburb are being converted into chic lofts and, in some cases, family homes.

The industry provided more than 40,000 jobs in its heyday in the first half of the 20th century, but as it dropped away so its buildings fell into disrepair. There is now a concerted effort to give Bedminster a makeover, with its secondhand car lots and warehouses seen as potential sites for development.

Airpoint is the first old factory in the area to be converted into apartments, while the developer Firmac is converting the nearby Robinson Building into 70 designer flats and Linden Homes is selling 22 new flats.


Meeting growth

The local authority estimates that 27,000 homes will be needed across Bristol by 2026 to meet projected demand, and unlike most parts of the country that target seems achievable.

"About 2,500 to 3,000 new homes are built in Bristol each year at the moment," says George Cardale of the estate agency Savills. "The next area for significant development is south Bristol - Bedminster and the adjoining suburb, Southville."

Certainly, the demographics and infrastructure support Bristol's claim to be one of the UK's hottest property markets.

Research by Savills shows 75% of buyers in the city centre are landlords. This is not surprising - Bristol's private rented sector is 20%, around twice as high as in most cities and fuelled by the area's growing student population of 50,000.

And although more than 3,000 flats have been built since 2001 - including the pair bought and subsequently sold by Cherie Blair - demand has so far kept pace.


Money talks

Separate research by estate agent Knight Frank shows Bristol has the highest proportion of economically active residents of any UK city (72%), while government data reveals more than half of Bristol's population falls within the social-economic categories of "wealthy achievers, the urban prosperous and comfortably off".

Bristol has a growing financial sector including AXA and the Bristol & West bank, so it's little wonder it is Europe's 22nd most prosperous city, ahead even of Manchester.

Although Bristol benefits from house price in the surrounding countryside and nearby Bath, where a typical centrally located family house is 20% more expensive than in Bristol, there are nonetheless downsides.

Education is one reason why families are moving from the city - its secondary schools regularly prop up national league tables.

And although city-centre regeneration includes improved roads, car travel in and around "old" Bristol is notoriously slow and a deterrent to some homebuyers.

But these are relatively low-level problems for estate agents at the sharp end of the seemingly unstoppable Bristol market and its bid to become the "city living" capital of the south-west.

the high house prices aren't really a good thing at all, downright disgusting at times >(, i'd really love to live somewhere like St Pauls (despite...) like in one of those City road townhouses (im aware theyre mostly flats), but i fear the city will become too costly, even in rent,

as for all the new houses being built... :puke:

its nice to see a mention of Southville and Bedminster though.

nice ego boosting article though :yes:

article in the Times recently that suggests otherwise Helium.....


Boom time out west
The regeneration of Bristol should make it more affordable, reports Elizabeth Colman
BRISTOL is the South West’s boom town. It has the national headquarters of Lloyds TSB and AXA Sun Life, the insurance giant, employment levels above the national average and the fourth-highest gross domestic product in the UK, despite having a population of under 500,000. The city, flanked by the M4 and M5, is about a two-hour drive to the fringes of West London. It’s also well-served by Brunel’s Great Western Railway line: a commute of 1¾ hours to Paddington station.

Yet in recent years soaring house prices across the South West have barred many young professionals – including graduates from the University of the West of England and Bristol University – from buying a home there. High prices have also limited the prospects for commuters who work in London but seek cheaper property outside the capital.

The region, long favoured as a second-home location for retired expatriate buyers and for buy-to-let investors, has priced a third of its young workers out of home ownership, a report by the property date company Hometrack indicates. House prices, which average £204,44 in the South West, are predicted to rise another 8 per cent next year, according to the Nationwide.

However, a solution appears to be at hand with sweeping regeneration plans for Exeter and Bath and a £500 million project at Broadmead, Bristol’s much-maligned city centre. The West of England’s regional spatial strategy has set a target for 92,500 new homes by 2026, with Bristol providing 27,500 of the total. Developers are rushing to fulfil local authority targets, opening up pockets of affordability in the city centre and outskirts for young professionals and first-time buyers. For example, an upgrade of the area around Bristol Temple Meads, which has trains to London Paddington every 15 minutes at peak times, has been the catalyst for the Finzels Reach development. Within walking distance of Temple Meads, this will bring 399 residential units on to the market by 2009. The first 85 one and two-bedroom units will be on sale from November 3 through Hamptons International for between £185,000 and £500,000.

Bristol’s affordablity problem has been compounded by the neglect of its southern suburbs. The shortage of affordable homes in family-friendly residential areas in the city’s north has forced buyers over the Severn Bridge to South Wales – chiefly Chepstow, regenerating Newport and towards Cardiff – as well as Wiltshire, south Gloucestershire and north Somerset. Edward Heard, of Knight Frank, says: “The coveted Georgian townhouses in [the northern suburb of] Clifton are out of reach for all but the most affluent first-time buyers.”

The demolition of Broadmead, infamous for its ugly postwar retail and office buildings, has spurred a frenzy of regeneration in the city centre and in south Bristol. Broadmead is in the process of gaining a 10,000-seat arena, a cine-ma complex, and a shopping centre. Just 15 minutes’ drive away, on the site of the old Imperial Tobacco headquarters and factory at Hartcliffe, Lake Shore, is a five-acre sustainable development of 400 units by Urban Splash.

When the tobacco factory closed in 1991, south Bristol fell into ruin. Heard says: “The fact that this site is now being refurbished is symbolic of the resurgence of south Bristol. Lake Shore’s homes have a high eco-home rating: that is going to appeal to a family or single young professionals.” Prices start at £99,950 and apartments will be ready from 2009.

Urban Splash is also making a foray into Weston-super-Mare, the down-at-heel Somerset resort, where work has begun on a £28 million facelift for the seafront, and £11 million is being spent on an upgrade of the town centre. Heard says that Weston-super-Mare, a 40-minute drive down the M5, could become to Bristol what Brighton is to London.

Demand for new homes in and around Bristol is high. On the Severn, 20 minutes by bus from Bristol, the Mirage on the Marina development at Portishead comprises nine one-bedroom and 45 two-bedroom apartments and penthouse. Susan Young, of Westmark, says that more than half of the the 55 apartments were bought in the first two weeks. “Encouragingly many were owner-occupiers,” she says. Prices start at £180,000 for a one-bedroom apartment, £250,000 for a two-bedroom flat.

Although just ten minutes by train from Bristol, Bath is dominated by employees who work in the capital. Ursula Sedler, of Hamptons International, says: “Our typical commuter buyer at Bath would still have their work in London but want a different lifestyle for their family.”

Elsewhere in the South West, Exeter is “buzzing”, says Simon Cooper, of Stags, a local estate agent, and is no longer merely a British bolthole for expatriates. Commuters leave from Tiverton Parkway station for the two-hour journey to Paddington. At Exeter, too, regeneration is narrowing the affordability gap. The mixed-use development at Princesshay by Land Securities, which opened last month, has sold all its residential units and the development of the old rugby ground is about to bring more homes on to the market. www.finzelsreach.com www.lakeshorebristol.co.uk www.westmarkdev.co.uk www.portmarine.co.uk www.hamptons.co.uk ; www.stags.co.uk

FACTFILE

The average price of a property in Bristol is £246,469 (source: Nationwide).

47 per cent of the city’s population is aged between 20 and 34.

The most expensive homes are in north Bristol: the average price of a home in Clifton, Sneyd Park and Stoke Bishop is over £500,000 (source: Knight Frank).

The sale record is a £2.6 million Georgian detached home in Clifton, according to Knight Frank.

The average price of a property in Bath is £253,788 (source: Nationwide).

Residents and traders in Chipping Sodbury have given a warm welcome to proposals to build a new Waitrose supermarket and 300 new homes.Developers Chelverton Deeley Freed staged an exhibition in the historic market town, attended by more than 500 people, to gauge the public's reaction to the multi-million pound scheme on derelict land at Barnhill Quarry.

The medium-sized Waitrose store would only be about 100 yards from the town's High Street shops and is not seen as an edge-of-town threat which would draw shoppers away from the town centre.

Most think a high-quality store will provide a boost to the town and entice back shoppers from Chipping Sodbury and surrounding villages who currently drive the half-mile into Yate to shop.

The 30-acre development site will be linked to the High Street via a bridge over the river Frome and a mews-style row of shops emerging opposite the clock tower.

The Bristol-based consortium will be staging a second exhibition before the end of the year in preparation to submitting a planning application to South Gloucestershire Council within two years.

Consortium director Patrick Fox said he was pleased with the reaction from the town and its traders.

He said: "We were delighted that so many people took the time to attend the first round of public consultation and the feedback we received has helped us in understanding issues of local importance.

"There is quite naturally, great interest in the look and feel of the development, and the project team has looked in detail and taken on board many of the comments fed back to us.

"Chipping Sodbury is a very special place, with an amazing history and we are very keen to encourage the local community to view the development as a natural extension to the town centre."

The site chosen for the store and housing is on Barnhill Quarry land which has lain derelict for more than 50 years and is next to the town's main public car park and cemetery.

The new supermarket is less than half-a-mile away from the rival stores at Yate which have been blamed for taking trade away from the High Street.

Councillor Linda Boon (Chipping Sodbury, Lib Dem), said the consortium had gone about the planning process in the correct way by fully consulting with residents before submitting any application.

"We can't make our views known yet because no planning application has been submitted but we do thank the developers for taking heed of our views and comments."

article in the Times recently that suggests otherwise Helium.....



i dont see how it doesn't tbh :dunno: (but i can guess.) although it's nice to see that Bristol's Boom isnt going unrecognised :yes:

i just dont want to live in those new developments because they're awful, as far as my tastes go.

i don't trust all this affordibility nonsense, and from the private housing sector of all people. :ohno:

Work is under way on the first new building at Bitton railway station for nearly 140 years.A new buffet and toilet block costing almost £500,000 is being built as part of major improvements to the headquarters of the Avon Valley Railway.

Foundations have already been completed on the site and work will start soon on the single storey building's steel framework.

The buffet and toilet block is being built in the same style as the original station building, which was completed in 1869 for the Midland Railway.

Avon Valley Railway's business development manager David Cole said people will be able to buy food and then sit either on a patio area beside the main platform or in two restored railway carriages.

He said: "These coaches will be linked on to the end of the new building so people will be able to walk straight through to them to sit and eat."

The coaches, which are no longer suitable to run on the railway, will be painted in traditional Midland Railway maroon livery.

Mr Cole is expecting them to be popular with visitors.

The room in the original station building where the buffet is at present will be turned into a souvenir shop.

The line, which runs for six miles through the Avon valley, carries more than 40,000 passengers a year, although in its heyday Bitton station only issued 6,000 tickets a year.

Now up to 100,000 people call at the station for drinks or food each year, many of whom use the Bristol to Bath cycle path.

Mr Cole said it was hoped the new buffet, which is being built by Biggs Construction based at High Littleton, would be complete by Easter next year.

Money will then be raised to finish the rest of the work.

Mr Cole said Avon Valley Railway had so far raised about £300,000 but needed another £150,000.

He said progress was also being made on plans to extend the line to Newbridge on the outskirts of Bath and a survey of the track bed and bridges was being carried out.

Mr Cole said talks were also going on with Saltford Parish Council and there were plans for a residents' forum.

He said: "It is really important that we keep residents of Saltford aware of what we are planning. We want them to feel they are involved."

If the three-mile extension is built it will link the railway with the park and ride service running into Bath.

Meanwhile, Avon Valley Railway is preparing for its busiest time of the year.

Its Santa Specials start running from November 25 and continue each weekend until Christmas with the final trains running on Christmas Eve. Ticket prices range from £7 to £10.

More details are available on the Avon Valley Railway website, www.avonvalleyrailway.co.uk

If the three-mile extension is built it will link the railway with the park and ride service running into Bath.Meanwhile, Avon Valley Railway is preparing for its busiest time of the year.


i really really hope so! :banana: it could be really popular, especially if they use the old locomotives.

Today's evening post also has an Article on Finzel's Reach and more importantly a letter from Bristol University Vice Chancellor stating that the Sail building could still go ahead and that it was one of several options that the university was considering.

Basically the post took the comments out of context. I really like the Sail tower so hope the university go with it!

^^well i guess its *fingers crossed* until then! :eek:

Today's evening post also has an Article on Finzel's Reach and more importantly a letter from Bristol University Vice Chancellor stating that the Sail building could still go ahead and that it was one of several options that the university was considering.

Basically the post took the comments out of context. I really like the Sail tower so hope the university go with it!

I really hope that it gets the go ahead... We here on SkySkraper City (SSC) always complain that any TALL plans are always blocked by Bristol City Council (BCC) but for once this 16 Story Tower (which is a wicked SAIL shape) has actually been APPROVED as part of the plans by BCC and now its the UNI and Planners which are backing out...

Come on BRISTOL UNI put a tall building up as more will then follow I reacon when they realise that some TALL projects are being allowed...!!!

A massive £50 million plan to build 2,200 homes, widen the M5 and create thousands of new jobs on part of Filton airfield looks like it will finally get the go-ahead.

Bovis homes is on the brink of overcoming a difficult four-year planning wrangle with South Gloucestershire Council to develop the 180-acre Northfield site at the airfield which includes a new dual-carriageway from the A38 to the roundabout next to The Mall shopping centre.

In June a Government planning inspector backed the council's opposition following an appeal by Bovis over details of the development, which will bring another 6,000 people into Patchway and give it a new town centre along with a new primary school and hotel.

But negotiations between Bovis Homes and planning officials over the summer months have overcome most of the council's concerns and its officers will now urge councillors on the planning committee to agree the revised master plan when they meet on Thursday.

One in three of the new houses will be affordable homes for first time buyers or single parent families with a range of new shops, a community centre, library and other facilities to form a town centre at Calicroft Road.

Patchway Town Council wants the current Northfield name for the site to be changed to Charlton Hayes to preserve a historic link with the previous village of Charlton near the site, which was bulldozed to make way for the runway extension when the giant Brabazon airliner was built in the late 1940s.

Community leaders were also anxious to ensure the developers provided sufficient space for children's play areas.

As well as the 2,200 houses there will be almost one million square feet of space for offices, industrial units and retail shops creating thousands of new jobs.

Developers will have to pay for a widening of Junction 17 on the M5 to cope with the expected increase in traffic.

Anthony Keown, a senior planning officer with the council, said: "The revised proposals from Bovis satisfactorily addressed all of the matters arising from the Secretary of State's appeal decision. They also address the other matters of concern to the council."

Bovis will also have to stump up almost £5 million for a new primary school, £3.6m for improved bus service, £3m for public open space, £3.8m road improvements plus money for other community projects.

John Calway, leader of the council, said: "We have always been determined to achieve only the highest quality of development to meet the needs our residents for affordable housing.

"It sends out a message to our local communities, and all developers, that only the best is good enough for South Gloucestershire."

Dave Farley, managing director of Bovis Homes Wessex Region, said: "While we were disappointed with the appeal decision, we have accepted it and responded positively to everything recommended in the inspector's report.

"We have been working in partnership with the officers in order to reach the position where they have been able to recommend that the application be approved.

"We have exceeded the level of housing available for rent and more play facilities than those agreed previously.

"We hope to be able to occupy the first homes either late 2008 or early 2009 with the road aiming to be completed by the end of 2010."

Take a look at the following Website... It has all the plans and to be honest they look pretty good but I feel they could have put taller and even more buildings in... I hope they do what they usally do and that is to make the site bigger (Taller and more buildings) when they are already on site (re-apply for more planning)... Happened with Harbourside etc and happens pretty much on every major project... They never stick to plans!!!

http://www.bhlconsultation.com/Welcome.asp?Sitecode=Filton

Also, Its hard to imagine but its a MASSIVE project!!! Approx 1 Million SQFT just for Retail and Offices etc... Thats almost as big as Cabot Circus...

Does anybody know how Emersons Green 2 (EG2) is getting on... Has it cleared planning yet or been confirmed??? David Lloyd are still planning to build their new Health Club on EG2 (which apparently will be the Biggest and most STATE OF THE ART health club in the UK)... Any News???

Plans for Frenchay

In 2005, architects working for North Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol North and South Gloucestershire Primary Care Trusts developed two options for the community hospital at Frenchay, one making use of refurbished existing good quality buildings and the other a new build.

In light of the scale and costs of the new build option, and given the NHS’ concern to ensure that all proposals are affordable, the refurbished option was the preferred option for Frenchay. However, we and the primary care trusts will have the opportunity to review the affordability of a new build as detailed planning for the scheme develops. The hospital will be completed in 2013.

The key features of the refurbished design are:

The use of existing good quality buildings
The use of the restaurant and the receipt and distribution centre
Good clinical links with the Macmillan Centre and the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit (BIRU)
The opportunity to extend as required.

http://www.nbt.nhs.uk/services/capitalprojects/images/BF-OBC-v4-Refurb.jpg

Residents are being invited to comment on University of Bristol plans to build on the site of an old city hospital.

The university wants to build £50m of research and teaching facilities for its departments of Biological Sciences and Mathematics.

The planned development is for part of the old Children's Hospital site near St Michael's Hill and Tyndall Avenue.

An exhibition of the proposals will be on display from Monday to Friday in Senate House on Tyndall Avenue.

A planning application has yet to be submitted.

GLASS ACTS ON CITY'S SKYLINE
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10:40 - 05 November 2007


Two landmark buildings on Bristol's skyline, which are both at the centre of high- profile regeneration projects, have each reached major milestones.

Work to fit the cladding to the side of the new Radisson SAS hotel at Broad Quay, formally the Bristol and West building, is under way.

And in Broadmead, a giant showpiece etched glass window has been installed in the House of Fraser department store at the new Cabot Circus development.

The Bristol and West building used to be regarded as one of the ugliest buildings in Bristol.

Its £20 million conversion into a four-star business hotel is on schedule to open in late summer 2008, according to developers.

The main tower itself looks great, bu the rest of it, seems to let it down judging from the renders however.

The main tower itself looks great, bu the rest of it, seems to let it down judging from the renders however.

I quite like the rest of the development and think it should look good... Maybe the coulour scheme could be better but overall I think a great project!!!

Five hundred affordable homes are set to be built on council-owned sites in Bristol to help first-time buyers get on to the property ladder.The city council is being given powers to offer cut-price deals on new houses built on its land.

Bristol is one of 14 areas across the country picked by the Government to pilot the "radical" scheme aimed at tackling the growing housing crisis.

Instead of selling off surplus land to developers - which means the council has limited influence over how the plots are used - it will set up Local Housing Companies in partnership with private firms.

It will mean officials can control what is built on the land and demand that at least half of the site is used for affordable homes.

The authority will also be able to offer key workers and first-time buyers shared equity deals.

Housing Minister Yvette Cooper said: "We urgently need to build more homes for first-time buyers and families.

"That's why we are investing £10.2 billion to increase affordable and social housing.

"But the Government can't deliver this alone. This is a new way to help councils do their bit to support new homes for key workers and families."

Each Local Housing Company would have the potential to deliver up to 1,000 new homes.

But the scheme was branded a "smokescreen" by the Tories, who claim it will fail to tackle the crisis in housing.

Shadow Housing Minister Grant Shapps said: "This is just another empty, headline-grabbing announcement, acting as a smokescreen for the raft of failed Government housing initiatives that have fallen by the wayside.

"The solution to help people on to the housing ladder isn't to announce another scheme.

"Labour should continue with its penchant for stealing Conservative policies and abolish stamp duty for first-time buyers on properties up to £250,000.

"Only last week it was revealed that a Government initiative costing £15 million, which was aimed at helping first-time buyers, had only been taken up by 88 families.

"This is a clear admission by Yvette Cooper that her policies have failed to help people on to the housing ladder. Let's hope this scheme turns out to be more than just Whitehall spin."

Bristol City Council spokesman Pete Wood said: "We are keen to deliver more affordable homes and if this proposal proves to be a cost-effective way of achieving this we will work with the Government to put this in place.

"At the moment we are still waiting for details from the Government."

Mr Wood said it was too early to comment on possible sites, cost and how the Local Housing Company scheme could be implemented.

One example of affordable housing - although not part of the Local Housing Company scheme - will take shape in Knowle West, where nearly 60 cheap homes will be built on the former secondary school site off Connaught Road, which has been a haven for drug addicts and a dumping ground for fly-tippers for years.

Permission was given last year for 24 homes nearby, but no work has been carried out. Now 57 shared-ownership homes - a mix of houses and flats - have been approved for the site behind Connaught Primary School.

Westbury Partnerships, the social housing arm of Persimmon Homes, will build 15 two-bedroom houses, 12 three-bed houses and 30 two-bed apartments.

They will be sold on to a housing association, which will offer shared-equity arrangements to would-be occupiers.

A typical three-bedroom property will cost about £165,000.

A £6.2m primary school and children's centre in one of Bristol's most deprived communities has opened.

The Barton Hill facility is aimed at supporting children from birth to 11, with 315 school and 60 nursery places.

The building has been designed to a high ecological standard, said the city council, including triple-glazing.

The money for the new building came from the area's regeneration programme - Community at Heart - the government, the EU and the city council.

Councillor Derek Pickup said: "The new setting will mean seamless transitions through the various phases of primary education in a familiar environment.

"Smoothing out such disruptions as changes of environment and staff is proven to have a positive impact on attainment and that's the crucial driver behind all our thinking.

"There are also huge benefits in drawing the local parent community into involvement with the school."

Development- Broadmead Offices (Plots 12a and 12b)
Value - £65 million
Size - 360,000 Sq Ft (180,000 SQ FT per Building)
Developer - Bristol Alliance (Hammerson and Land Securities)
Architects - EPR ARCHITECTS

Plot 12 buildings are part of the major new Broadmead development in Bristol. They form the south side of the new space, Newfoundland
Square and will therefore form an important part of the new arrival experience to the city. The buildings accommodate between them, the
vehicular access to the main new department store car park located behind.

The massing has been configured to respect the department store at the west end of Newfoundland Square as the focus of the retail
development. Also there is a need to cut through the buildings to express the car park entrance. The entrances to the offices have been
located at the opposite ends away from the car movements and adjacent to the pedestrian crossings.

A sustainable approach to design has been adopted from the outset. Coring and fabric design seeks to maximise daylight while reducing
solar gain in the workplace. Principal and secondary cores are located on the predominantly solid south facade with horizontal glazing
offering views when seating and standing in the office areas. The solidity wraps around the ends and progressively fragments into a glazed facade to the north.

A horizontal expression of the floors is incorporated into the elevation to lead the eye naturally to the west to further reinforce the focus on the department store. The roof plant has been set back from the building edge in a free-flowing form, concentrated over the principle
cores to ensure the massing is respectful to the department store.

The building seeks to connect with the new square by leaning towards it while leaning away from the car park access. This has the added
benefit of maximising accommodation on the upper floors and widening the pavement for pedestrians along the busy roadway.

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http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w164/gee31/BraodmeadOffices2.jpg

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Development- Broadmead Offices (Plots 12a and 12b)
Value - £65 million
Size - 360,000 Sq Ft (180,000 SQ FT per Building)
Developer - Bristol Alliance (Hammerson and Land Securities)
Architects - EPR ARCHITECTS

Plot 12 buildings are part of the major new Broadmead development in Bristol. They form the south side of the new space, Newfoundland
Square and will therefore form an important part of the new arrival experience to the city. The buildings accommodate between them, the
vehicular access to the main new department store car park located behind.

The massing has been configured to respect the department store at the west end of Newfoundland Square as the focus of the retail
development. Also there is a need to cut through the buildings to express the car park entrance. The entrances to the offices have been
located at the opposite ends away from the car movements and adjacent to the pedestrian crossings.

A sustainable approach to design has been adopted from the outset. Coring and fabric design seeks to maximise daylight while reducing
solar gain in the workplace. Principal and secondary cores are located on the predominantly solid south facade with horizontal glazing
offering views when seating and standing in the office areas. The solidity wraps around the ends and progressively fragments into a glazed facade to the north.

A horizontal expression of the floors is incorporated into the elevation to lead the eye naturally to the west to further reinforce the focus on the department store. The roof plant has been set back from the building edge in a free-flowing form, concentrated over the principle
cores to ensure the massing is respectful to the department store.

The building seeks to connect with the new square by leaning towards it while leaning away from the car park access. This has the added
benefit of maximising accommodation on the upper floors and widening the pavement for pedestrians along the busy roadway.

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w164/gee31/BraodmeadOffices.jpg

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w164/gee31/BraodmeadOffices2.jpg

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w164/gee31/BraodmeadOffices3.jpg http://www.bd4jobs.co.uk/Pictures/Web/r/t/y/epr3.jpg

I really like these designs, although I hope the grey looking cladding is nice shiney metal and not mat grey cladding as per every other piece of dull as SH1T architecture you see these days. Still I think a decent tower would have been ideal on one of these sites to detract from the pile of sandstone shoe boxes that is meant to be our iconic department store.

I really like these designs, although I hope the grey looking cladding is nice shiney metal and not mat grey cladding as per every other piece of dull as SH1T architecture you see these days. Still I think a decent tower would have been ideal on one of these sites to detract from the pile of sandstone shoe boxes that is meant to be our iconic department store.

I cant understand what Im about to say...

I think that a tall building would not be so good here... (OK SHOOT ME NOW!!! :ohno:)

Na, Seriously I think that the sie is to compact and it would look out of place if a tall building would go there... Maybe the Current Design could have been a few stories higher but really I think that the design is perfect for that site!!!

Also I think the HOF Department Store will be ok... Just give it a chance... Let it Complete and when its lit up and being used, I think it will look quite cool... If nothing else its quite a STRONG and IMPOSING building... And I think quite well DESIGNED!!!

I really like these designs, although I hope the grey looking cladding is nice shiney metal and not mat grey cladding as per every other piece of dull as SH1T architecture you see these days. Still I think a decent tower would have been ideal on one of these sites to detract from the pile of sandstone shoe boxes that is meant to be our iconic department store.

Lets bloody well hope so!

as for those shoe boxes they make wonderful blank canvasses for our city's large street artists population

Regarding the TULIP INN on LEWINS MEAD...

The Developer is- Tulip Inns PLC

The Architechts: Stride Treglown (Bristol Office)

This is the link to the planning Application:

http://e2eweb.bristol.gov.uk/PublicAccess/tdc/DcApplication/application_detailview.aspx?keyval=JEWKC3DNCL000&searchtype=PROPERTY&module=P3 (Currently Pending)

And Heres some pictures to put on the front page aswell...

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w164/gee31/TulipInnLewinsMead.jpg

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w164/gee31/TulipInnLewinsMead2.jpg

looks OK-ish, but i like it's height :yes:

Regarding the TULIP INN on LEWINS MEAD...

The Developer is- Tulip Inns PLC

The Architechts: Stride Treglown (Bristol Office)

This is the link to the planning Application:

http://e2eweb.bristol.gov.uk/PublicAccess/tdc/DcApplication/application_detailview.aspx?keyval=JEWKC3DNCL000&searchtype=PROPERTY&module=P3 (Currently Pending)

And Heres some pictures to put on the front page aswell...

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w164/gee31/TulipInnLewinsMead.jpg

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w164/gee31/TulipInnLewinsMead2.jpg

I like the height although it could have been taller and I like the fact it carries on the building line unlike the current concrete stump. I can't say I'm enthused about the exterior appearence which is banal at best. That flat blue facade and service tower with round windows looks like public toilet architecture to me.

Another thing to update the first post with.

Symes Avenue is now completed! The Supermarket opens this weekend, everything else has already opened.

^^thats very good new indeed :yes: what does it look like?

Another thing to update the first post with.

Symes Avenue is now completed! The Supermarket opens this weekend, everything else has already opened.
I hope that that Broadmead office building looks silver rather than mat grey, Can't see why they would do it grey but fingercrossed.

I've done a few more updates on the front page

Symes is now under the completed schemes and i've put Airpoint in there too. Thanks Dronkula and Schmeek

EPR Broadmead office, Frenchay Hospital and Tulip Inn Have been included with the other schemes. Thanks Gee

Also put a few other Harbourside and finzels reach images on. Probably add buildings 4 and 5 college square as another post sooner or later.

I like the height although it could have been taller and I like the fact it carries on the building line unlike the current concrete stump. I can't say I'm enthused about the exterior appearence which is banal at best. That flat blue facade and service tower with round windows looks like public toilet architecture to me.

the style of the windows have become standard now havent they (but they're a million times better than the other standard being used, like on the Ibis)

Multi-million pound plans for the derelict Tropicana in Weston-super-Mare have at last been unveiled.Henry Boot Developments has been redesigning its proposal for reviving the swimming pool over the past few months to come up with a solution.

The firm says it hopes residents will welcome the new designs for the £30 million Lifestation at Tropicana, which will create about 500 jobs.

The plans include a water park with swimming pool and flume, eight screen cinema, 96-bed hotel, 20-lane bowling alley, restaurants with outdoor dining and children's play centre.

The water park will be provided in an indoor, all-year-round atrium at the rear of the complex, offering views of the beach.

It has been designed in consultation with the chosen operator, Lemur Leisure, which has traded as Splashdown Leisure Pool in Poole, Dorset, for the past 15 years.

Splashdown at the Tropicana will be privately funded and operated, with a range of slides and attractions.

Henry Boot says it is in legal negotiations with operators for 55 per cent of the site, which offers the cinema, bowling alley, hotel and children's play.

The cinema and bowling alley will be on the first floor of the complex and the children's indoor play section on the same floor as the shops, cafes and restaurants.

Bedrooms in the hotel will be split over four floors in the tallest section of the facility.

An underground car park for 490 cars will be provided in the complex and the Beach Lawns but Henry Boot says the impact on the lawns will be minimal. Also sited on the Beach Lawns will be open-air theatre seating for any events.

Craig Mathias, of Henry Boot Developments, said: "We have been working hard on these plans in order to make this development a fantastic one for the people of Weston to enjoy all year round.

"We are interested in the feedback we get from local people and hope everyone will take the opportunity to have their say.

"We shall look closely at the views gathered when drawing up our final plans for the scheme."

Lifestation@Tropicana will also include a set of solar panels as part of the commitment to using alternative forms of energy.

A consultation period is running in the resort from November 15 to 17 and feedback received will be analysed and incorporated into the final masterplan where possible.

The developers have set up a project website designed to inform and consult local people on the plans at www.LifestationatTropicana.info .

A free phone number is also available for people to call with any queries on 0800 169 6507.

The developers are also consulting key stakeholders including the South West Design Review Panel on the initial plans for the scheme.

Views gathered will impact on the final designs and will be submitted to North Somerset Council as part of a public consultation statement.

l The public open days are: Thursday November 15, 3 to 8pm at Worle Community Centre; Friday November 16, 11am to 7pm at The Campus, Locking Castle; Saturday November 17, 10am to 5pm at the Winter Gardens, Weston-super-Mare.