Towering Options For Bristol
Part of the deprived St Paul's area of Bristol could be in for a boost if a massive redevelopment on Dove Lane goes ahead.
Developed by PG Enterprises, Places for People and consultant RPS, the project see three different options presented for the site that will be more extensively designed by a shortlist of architects and then whittled down during further public consultancy.
The main difference between plans A, B, and C is that the higher the tallest building gets from 10 floors to 20 floors plus, the greater the amount of public space available in the project as the developer is able to build up rather than out. A 10 floor building as seen in option A will allow only 10% public space but option C which would see a 20-40 floor building would be about 30% public space which will allow a market, a performance area, a park and a play area.
All three of the various options will have the same amount of housing within, about 700 new homes including a large amount of affordable and sheltered accomodation, and also about 20 new shops each.
The problem the developers face is that the tall building will struggle to get approval if it has local opposition despite the obvious planning gains to be made. Local community group St Paul's Unlimited have already attacked it as something that "looks completely out of place" whilst the Bristol Civic Society have gone as far as to compare proposals for a modern tall building with the sixties dross that blights Bristol.
Bristol is one of the few major British cities to have not really got into the current trend of building tall residential towers and despite the hopefulness of developers with many previous schemes falling by the wayside. If present indications are anything to go by, this is something that is unlikely to change very soon.
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Sat Dec 04, 2010 2:01 am