Hundreds of homes for St Jude's in latest plans submitted
A total of 360 homes could be built in St Jude’s under new plans recently submitted. Each week Bristol City Council receives dozens of planning applications seeking permission for a whole range of developments.
Over the past seven days, those applications also included the conversion of offices into 45 flats and bulldozing a garage in a hotel gardens and replacing it with a mews house. Here’s this week’s round-up of notable planning applications submitted to the council.
Every week dozens are validated by the local authority and we have selected some of the more interesting proposals. All planning applications submitted to the council have to be validated and are available for inspection by the public. Anyone is also allowed to submit comments about the applications — whether in support or objection.
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The majority of applications are decided by planning officers at the council under delegated powers. However, some will go before elected councillors who sit on planning committees. No dates have been set for when the planning applications below will be determined. They can be viewed by going to the planning portal on Bristol City Council’s website.
Hundreds of homes in St Jude’s
Developers are asking the council if they need to carry out an environmental impact assessment (EIA) ahead of submitting a planning application for 360 homes across three buildings up to 83 metres tall on land at Eugene Street, St Jude’s. Agents on behalf of Platform DM have requested a formal “screening opinion” for the authority to make a decision, and they argue an EIA is not necessary.
In a letter they said the redevelopment would be part of the Frome Gateway regeneration area, where new homes, jobs, community facilities and improvement to open spaces are proposed. The agents said: “The proposed development is unlikely to generate any significant environmental effects and any localised effects can either be designed out or mitigated via planning conditions and other environmental controls.
“It is concluded that an environmental statement is not required to accompany the application for the proposed development.” They said the demolition of existing structures and construction works would take three years.
Offices to 45 flats
Plans to convert offices in the Old City into 45 studio flats have been unveiled. Developers are asking if prior approval is required for the scheme on the corner of Queen Charlotte Street and Little King Street.
If the request is granted, the homes can be created without the need for planning permission. A total of 46 cycle spaces, along with refuse and recycling, would be provided in the basement.
Of the existing 18 car parking spaces in the basement, 10 would be retained for residents.
Garage conversion in hotel gardens
A disused garage at the end of a hotel gardens in Cotham could be demolished and turned into a three-bedroom mews house. Plans were previously refused for a similar redevelopment of the property at Arches Hotel in Cotham Brow but architects say significant improvements have been made to allay concerns.
They said: “This unused and unsightly garage site presents an opportunity for a desirable mews style dwellinghouse. The proposed dwellinghouse on this garage site would offer excellent accommodation while enhancing the Cotham and Redland Conservation Area with a design in keeping with the area.”