Bristol Developments - Page 4

Andrew · April 8th, 2006, 12:27 AM

You cannot hotlink photos from your hard drive, only from on the internet. To post your own photos you have to use an online host such as www.imageshack.us

clarky · April 21st, 2006, 06:41 PM

Tollgate April 21st 2006
)btw how do i make the pics smaller im using tinypic.ive got more to post?)
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clarky · April 21st, 2006, 07:13 PM

21st April 2006
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dronkula · April 21st, 2006, 07:22 PM

Crikey - I was just trying to work out where that 2nd picture was taken and then realised the stuff on the left used to be the shops around Quakers Friars. When I was back there at Christmas all the shops there were still trading and didn't seem to give any indication they would be gone a few months later!

They're working fast!

In other news, they've decided to drop the purposed new name for the shopping centre. They were going to call it 'Merchants Quarter' but there was an outcry because it could have been intrepreted as Slave Merchants. Personally, I'm just glad they're scrapping that name cos I think it's bland and boring and not unique to the city (any city can have a Merchants Quarter - but there's only 1 Broadmead!).

There's now an outcry for people complaining that this is political correctness gone mad though - although no-one really liked the name anyway! Some people just like complaining!

clarky · April 21st, 2006, 07:32 PM

Bristol&west Tower April 21st 2006
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clarky · April 21st, 2006, 07:35 PM

Here's the rest of them.
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clarky · April 28th, 2006, 07:26 PM

This is the ugly building to be demolished near Bristol bridge.
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clarky · July 4th, 2006, 03:20 PM

It was to hot to get out of the car ill get some better photos soon

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***gothicform*** · July 4th, 2006, 03:30 PM

looks like the luffewaffe has visited bristol again.

Andrew · July 5th, 2006, 03:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gothicform

looks like the luffewaffe has visited bristol again.

Hahaha! Yeah, though I think this time what'll replace those 'blitzed' areas will be much better than last time!

dronkula · July 17th, 2006, 10:11 AM

The website for the new Bristol shopping centre development http://www.bristolcitycentre.com has had a major overhaul and now includes 3 webcams (with a 4th coming soon) at http://www.bristolcitycentre.com/webcams.asp?pageid=77

Just a reminder - this is a half billion pounds development which they're hoping will lift the City centre from it's current 23rd place shopping destination in the country to number 7 and includes 1 new tower next(ish) to the existing Castlemead Tower above a new Harvey Nicks stores .

dronkula · July 17th, 2006, 10:14 AM

The new tower will be in the shadow on this webcam picture.

jjmacjj · July 17th, 2006, 11:16 AM

Nice piccies & webcam shot - Good to see Brigadoon luxuriating in the summer heat....

Any news on some of the other stuff going on in the city -
-the warehouse development by the SS Great Britain
-the replacement for that lump opposite the main library
-Any of the new stuff in Redcliffe
-temple quay & temple meads area
-university redevelopment
-I thought they were going to knock down that block of brutalist 50's stuff around New Bridewell police station & the courts... any progress / proposals??

dronkula · July 17th, 2006, 11:18 AM

At the other end of Broadmead is the St Mary le Port scheme - http://www.stmaryleport.com/index.html.

The council recently announced their development partner for this - but it's not been a popular choice. A few months back they had the 3 'finalists' give a presentation to the public over their initial plans and the least popular developer seems to have been chosen.

Anyway, next weekend (21st-23rd July) the new developers will have an exhibition in the Galleries shopping centre (nearby) to show people what their initial ideas are.

There's already a campaign against this - their plans include building on Castle Park next door http://www.savecastlepark.co.uk/

The council and (other) developers had a similar situation when they started redeveloping Harbourside. It took 3 different proposals from the developers before they finally produced something that was not hated by everyone in Bristol. The Save Castle Park group are hoping to get a similar campaign going to force the developers to do the right thing here as well.

dronkula · July 17th, 2006, 11:26 AM

On the Uni redevelopment front, the council have just accepted and adopted the masterplan produced by the Uni.

So, that basically means they've accepted what they want to do, they'll just need to submit detailed plans for each new development. As long as it sticks to the masterplan and if it's not too controversial, they should be waved through.

However, I suspect their proposed 'sail' tower will not be waved through - it'll go to a PI because it would be so big and would be visible pretty much from everywhere in central Bristol.

dronkula · July 17th, 2006, 11:37 AM

At Redcliffe, there was a story the other week (which I've now lost) which said that they've come up with a final plan for the area now and just need to get it rubber stamped and then find some money to pay for it all. Not sure how 'radical' the plan will be - during the consultation they were talking about removing the big roundabout from outside the Church (which is now pretty much surplus with the changes made further east to the road network).

Also, the council have asked for developers to come up with plans for Redcliffe Wharf.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/4754341.stm

Bids invited for revamp of wharf
Boats at Redcliffe Wharf: picture from Bristol City Council
The wharf occupies the eastern end of the harbourside
Developers are being invited to come up with a scheme to regenerate part of Bristol's Redcliffe Wharf.

The city council said it was seeking a development that was "sensitive to the historic and landscape importance of the site".

The wharf housed a former glassworks and became a centre for warehousing.

The closing date for initial bids is 3 July with a shortlist then being drawn up from which a "partner" will be chosen.

The area to be developed is a 0.68 hectare site at the eastern end of the harbourside.

The brief sets includes such criteria as the height and size of any new buildings which must accommodate views of the St Mary Redcliffe Church and other views to and from the harbour.

The council also wants to see new public open space with improved public walkways and access to the quayside.

It is also asking any developer to improve mooring facilities on the waterfront including a continuation of the existing boat building tradition on the wharf and refurbishment of derelict buildings on the site.

jjmacjj · July 17th, 2006, 11:39 AM

Good news...

i imagine the sail tower will get the inevitable reaction from the 'don't build anything new... anywhere... ever' brigade; Surely the fact that a chimney to burn hospital waste is now an iconic feature of the skyline provides a bit of a positive precedent.... fingers firmly crossed!!!

I've got a feeling that an instutuion as powerful & important to the city as Bristol Uni could get most things (within reason) rubber stumped.... any timeline on submitting plans & getting on with the build?

jjmacjj · July 25th, 2006, 06:18 PM

Some new developments - now approved

AWW SCHEME, GLASSFIELDS IN BRISTOL, GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION

http://www.aww-uk.com/ProjectPage.as...tprojectid=415

Planning permission has been granted to pull down the old IBM building on Temple Way in Bristol and replace it with a new scheme that will create a new commercial quarter with a public open space at the centre of the city.

The existing building, which has been vacant for 18 months, will be replaced with 400,000qsft of commercial office space in two new buildings, a separate building with 48 homes, a cafe and public open space.

The three-acre site, owned by Royal London Asset Management, will be known as Glassfields, a reference to its historical past when it was used to house a glassworks.

The two new office blocks will house up to 3,000 with the buildings facing towards the public space. The 48 one and two-bed apartments will also face this public area. A pedestrian walkway and cycle path through the public space completes the link between Temple Meads and Broad Mead locating the site in a prime position for access from the railway station and the city centre.

Mark Alker Stone, Project Architect for Glassfields and Director of AWW, said:
"Our aim is to give this scheme a real presence so it becomes a landmark address at the gateway of Bristol. It will combine the best of contemporary architecture with a sensitive approach to the historic context of the site and will contribute to the regeneration of this part of the city."

AWW, one of the leading architecture and interior design practices in the South West, has contributed heavily to the regeneration of Bristol and were highly commended for their urban regeneration work at the Architect of the Year Awards. Other schemes include the Broad Quay redevelopment, offices and apartments on the Courage Brewery site, offices at Portwall Lane and Legal HQ offices on the waterfront.

Agents for the Glassfields scheme will be King Sturge & DTZ; a marketing exercise will commence soon to attract tenants for the offices.

AWW LANDS CATHEDRAL FIRST
http://www.aww-uk.com/ProjectPage.as...tprojectid=844

AWW has secured permission to convert Bristol’s crumbling Grade-II Clifton Pro-Cathedral (1848) into flats - the first former UK cathedral to be commercially redeveloped.Bristol City Council last week approved AWW’s plan, devised in collaboration with conservation architect Richard Pedlar and CSJ Planning Consultants, to adapt the property into 80 apartments and a single townhouse. Some 38 apartments will be created in the existing structure, considered one of Bristol’s finest buildings at risk, while a cluster of new blocks at the rear of the cathedral will provide an additional 42 flats. The former 580 sqm school hall is to be transformed into offices and the cathedral vaults given over to car parking. The Pro-Cathedral in Park Place, Clifton, has been mostly derelict since the Catholic Church relocated to Clifton Cathedral in the early 1970's. It was de-consecrated in the 1970s and briefly occupied by the Steiner Waldorf School until the mid 1990s. Pevsner calls it 'a building rather strange than attractive'. Developer Urban Creation paid £2.1 million from Ashfield Land for the site. Director Darren Sheward believes it is one of the last major redevelopment opportunities in Clifton. ‘These wonderful buildings are in a very sad and sorry state...This is a complex and difficult site to redevelop which has been fraught with structural difficulties over many years,’ he said.

***gothicform*** · July 25th, 2006, 06:28 PM

seems to me everything in bristol is destruction rather than construction.

dronkula · July 25th, 2006, 07:12 PM

To use an old cliche...

You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.

There's a lot of crap stuff in Bristol if all the developments go ahead, it'll completely change to the face of the city.

The main problem though is that at the moment there doesn't seem to be a masterplan - it's all being done piecemeal. Even the three schemes at different corners of Broadmead Shopping Centre (The eastern extension, St Mary-le-Port scheme and Bridewell Island) are pretty much ignoring each other.

Meanwhile, as usual, projects that the council has a finger in, as opposed to when they just turn land over to the developers and let them get on with it, go no-where. The plans for the new Bristol Arena were meant to be finalised and announced by the end of 2005. It's now the 2nd half of 2006 and there's still no sign of them...

April 21st, 2006, 06:41 PM	#62
clarky member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Bristol,England Posts: 9,231 Likes (Received): 153	Tollgate April 21st 2006 )btw how do i make the pics smaller im using tinypic.ive got more to post?) [IMG]http://***********/w1eiyu.jpg[/IMG] Last edited by clarky; April 21st, 2006 at 07:15 PM.*

April 21st, 2006, 07:32 PM	#65
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April 21st, 2006, 07:35 PM	#66
clarky member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Bristol,England Posts: 9,231 Likes (Received): 153	Here's the rest of them. [IMG]http://**********/w1u2bq.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://********/w1u41x.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://********/w1u4k1.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://********/w1uq1x.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://********/w1uqvr.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://********/w1urg3.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://********/w1utls.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://********/w1uu8n.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://********/w1uutc.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://********/w1uwls.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://********/w1uxhx.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://********/w1uzro.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://*********/w1v0is.jpg[/IMG] Last edited by clarky; April 21st, 2006 at 10:29 PM.*

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April 8th, 2006, 12:27 AM	#61
Andrew Registered User Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Cardiff/Newcastle Posts: 3,485 Likes (Received): 7	You cannot hotlink photos from your hard drive, only from on the internet. To post your own photos you have to use an online host such as www.imageshack.us

April 21st, 2006, 07:13 PM	#63
clarky member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Bristol,England Posts: 9,231 Likes (Received): 153	21st April 2006 [IMG]http://************/w1fr0k.jpg[/IMG]

April 21st, 2006, 07:22 PM	#64
dronkula Registered User Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Dublin Posts: 1,465 Likes (Received): 1	Crikey - I was just trying to work out where that 2nd picture was taken and then realised the stuff on the left used to be the shops around Quakers Friars. When I was back there at Christmas all the shops there were still trading and didn't seem to give any indication they would be gone a few months later! They're working fast! In other news, they've decided to drop the purposed new name for the shopping centre. They were going to call it 'Merchants Quarter' but there was an outcry because it could have been intrepreted as Slave Merchants. Personally, I'm just glad they're scrapping that name cos I think it's bland and boring and not unique to the city (any city can have a Merchants Quarter - but there's only 1 Broadmead!). There's now an outcry for people complaining that this is political correctness gone mad though - although no-one really liked the name anyway! Some people just like complaining!

April 28th, 2006, 07:26 PM	#67
clarky member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Bristol,England Posts: 9,231 Likes (Received): 153	This is the ugly building to be demolished near Bristol bridge. [IMG]http://************/wm1gxt.jpg[/IMG]

July 4th, 2006, 03:20 PM	#68
clarky member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Bristol,England Posts: 9,231 Likes (Received): 153	It was to hot to get out of the car ill get some better photos soon [IMG][IMG]http://i6.**********/16lk29f.jpg[/IMG][/IMG] [IMG][IMG]http://i6.**********/16lk2kw.jpg[/IMG][/IMG]

July 4th, 2006, 03:30 PM	#69
*gothicform* Bossman Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: not london Posts: 29,274 Likes (Received): 559	looks like the luffewaffe has visited bristol again.

July 17th, 2006, 10:11 AM	#71
dronkula Registered User Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Dublin Posts: 1,465 Likes (Received): 1	The website for the new Bristol shopping centre development http://www.bristolcitycentre.com has had a major overhaul and now includes 3 webcams (with a 4th coming soon) at http://www.bristolcitycentre.com/webcams.asp?pageid=77 Just a reminder - this is a half billion pounds development which they're hoping will lift the City centre from it's current 23rd place shopping destination in the country to number 7 and includes 1 new tower next(ish) to the existing Castlemead Tower above a new Harvey Nicks stores .

July 17th, 2006, 10:14 AM	#72
dronkula Registered User Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Dublin Posts: 1,465 Likes (Received): 1	The new tower will be in the shadow on this webcam picture.

July 17th, 2006, 11:16 AM	#73
jjmacjj Registered User Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 123 Likes (Received): 0	Nice piccies & webcam shot - Good to see Brigadoon luxuriating in the summer heat.... Any news on some of the other stuff going on in the city - -the warehouse development by the SS Great Britain -the replacement for that lump opposite the main library -Any of the new stuff in Redcliffe -temple quay & temple meads area -university redevelopment -I thought they were going to knock down that block of brutalist 50's stuff around New Bridewell police station & the courts... any progress / proposals??

July 17th, 2006, 11:18 AM	#74
dronkula Registered User Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Dublin Posts: 1,465 Likes (Received): 1	At the other end of Broadmead is the St Mary le Port scheme - http://www.stmaryleport.com/index.html. The council recently announced their development partner for this - but it's not been a popular choice. A few months back they had the 3 'finalists' give a presentation to the public over their initial plans and the least popular developer seems to have been chosen. Anyway, next weekend (21st-23rd July) the new developers will have an exhibition in the Galleries shopping centre (nearby) to show people what their initial ideas are. There's already a campaign against this - their plans include building on Castle Park next door http://www.savecastlepark.co.uk/ The council and (other) developers had a similar situation when they started redeveloping Harbourside. It took 3 different proposals from the developers before they finally produced something that was not hated by everyone in Bristol. The Save Castle Park group are hoping to get a similar campaign going to force the developers to do the right thing here as well.

July 17th, 2006, 11:26 AM	#75
dronkula Registered User Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Dublin Posts: 1,465 Likes (Received): 1	On the Uni redevelopment front, the council have just accepted and adopted the masterplan produced by the Uni. So, that basically means they've accepted what they want to do, they'll just need to submit detailed plans for each new development. As long as it sticks to the masterplan and if it's not too controversial, they should be waved through. However, I suspect their proposed 'sail' tower will not be waved through - it'll go to a PI because it would be so big and would be visible pretty much from everywhere in central Bristol.

July 17th, 2006, 11:37 AM	#76
dronkula Registered User Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Dublin Posts: 1,465 Likes (Received): 1	At Redcliffe, there was a story the other week (which I've now lost) which said that they've come up with a final plan for the area now and just need to get it rubber stamped and then find some money to pay for it all. Not sure how 'radical' the plan will be - during the consultation they were talking about removing the big roundabout from outside the Church (which is now pretty much surplus with the changes made further east to the road network). Also, the council have asked for developers to come up with plans for Redcliffe Wharf. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/4754341.stm Bids invited for revamp of wharf Boats at Redcliffe Wharf: picture from Bristol City Council The wharf occupies the eastern end of the harbourside Developers are being invited to come up with a scheme to regenerate part of Bristol's Redcliffe Wharf. The city council said it was seeking a development that was "sensitive to the historic and landscape importance of the site". The wharf housed a former glassworks and became a centre for warehousing. The closing date for initial bids is 3 July with a shortlist then being drawn up from which a "partner" will be chosen. The area to be developed is a 0.68 hectare site at the eastern end of the harbourside. The brief sets includes such criteria as the height and size of any new buildings which must accommodate views of the St Mary Redcliffe Church and other views to and from the harbour. The council also wants to see new public open space with improved public walkways and access to the quayside. It is also asking any developer to improve mooring facilities on the waterfront including a continuation of the existing boat building tradition on the wharf and refurbishment of derelict buildings on the site.

July 17th, 2006, 11:39 AM	#77
jjmacjj Registered User Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 123 Likes (Received): 0	Good news... i imagine the sail tower will get the inevitable reaction from the 'don't build anything new... anywhere... ever' brigade; Surely the fact that a chimney to burn hospital waste is now an iconic feature of the skyline provides a bit of a positive precedent.... fingers firmly crossed!!! I've got a feeling that an instutuion as powerful & important to the city as Bristol Uni could get most things (within reason) rubber stumped.... any timeline on submitting plans & getting on with the build?

July 25th, 2006, 06:18 PM	#78
jjmacjj Registered User Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 123 Likes (Received): 0	Some new developments - now approved AWW SCHEME, GLASSFIELDS IN BRISTOL, GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION http://www.aww-uk.com/ProjectPage.as...tprojectid=415 Planning permission has been granted to pull down the old IBM building on Temple Way in Bristol and replace it with a new scheme that will create a new commercial quarter with a public open space at the centre of the city. The existing building, which has been vacant for 18 months, will be replaced with 400,000qsft of commercial office space in two new buildings, a separate building with 48 homes, a cafe and public open space. The three-acre site, owned by Royal London Asset Management, will be known as Glassfields, a reference to its historical past when it was used to house a glassworks. The two new office blocks will house up to 3,000 with the buildings facing towards the public space. The 48 one and two-bed apartments will also face this public area. A pedestrian walkway and cycle path through the public space completes the link between Temple Meads and Broad Mead locating the site in a prime position for access from the railway station and the city centre. Mark Alker Stone, Project Architect for Glassfields and Director of AWW, said: "Our aim is to give this scheme a real presence so it becomes a landmark address at the gateway of Bristol. It will combine the best of contemporary architecture with a sensitive approach to the historic context of the site and will contribute to the regeneration of this part of the city." AWW, one of the leading architecture and interior design practices in the South West, has contributed heavily to the regeneration of Bristol and were highly commended for their urban regeneration work at the Architect of the Year Awards. Other schemes include the Broad Quay redevelopment, offices and apartments on the Courage Brewery site, offices at Portwall Lane and Legal HQ offices on the waterfront. Agents for the Glassfields scheme will be King Sturge & DTZ; a marketing exercise will commence soon to attract tenants for the offices. AWW LANDS CATHEDRAL FIRST http://www.aww-uk.com/ProjectPage.as...tprojectid=844 AWW has secured permission to convert Bristol’s crumbling Grade-II Clifton Pro-Cathedral (1848) into flats - the first former UK cathedral to be commercially redeveloped.Bristol City Council last week approved AWW’s plan, devised in collaboration with conservation architect Richard Pedlar and CSJ Planning Consultants, to adapt the property into 80 apartments and a single townhouse. Some 38 apartments will be created in the existing structure, considered one of Bristol’s finest buildings at risk, while a cluster of new blocks at the rear of the cathedral will provide an additional 42 flats. The former 580 sqm school hall is to be transformed into offices and the cathedral vaults given over to car parking. The Pro-Cathedral in Park Place, Clifton, has been mostly derelict since the Catholic Church relocated to Clifton Cathedral in the early 1970's. It was de-consecrated in the 1970s and briefly occupied by the Steiner Waldorf School until the mid 1990s. Pevsner calls it 'a building rather strange than attractive'. Developer Urban Creation paid £2.1 million from Ashfield Land for the site. Director Darren Sheward believes it is one of the last major redevelopment opportunities in Clifton. ‘These wonderful buildings are in a very sad and sorry state...This is a complex and difficult site to redevelop which has been fraught with structural difficulties over many years,’ he said.

July 25th, 2006, 06:28 PM	#79
*gothicform* Bossman Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: not london Posts: 29,274 Likes (Received): 559	seems to me everything in bristol is destruction rather than construction.

July 25th, 2006, 07:12 PM	#80
dronkula Registered User Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Dublin Posts: 1,465 Likes (Received): 1	To use an old cliche... You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs. There's a lot of crap stuff in Bristol if all the developments go ahead, it'll completely change to the face of the city. The main problem though is that at the moment there doesn't seem to be a masterplan - it's all being done piecemeal. Even the three schemes at different corners of Broadmead Shopping Centre (The eastern extension, St Mary-le-Port scheme and Bridewell Island) are pretty much ignoring each other. Meanwhile, as usual, projects that the council has a finger in, as opposed to when they just turn land over to the developers and let them get on with it, go no-where. The plans for the new Bristol Arena were meant to be finalised and announced by the end of 2005. It's now the 2nd half of 2006 and there's still no sign of them...