Planning Applications

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Reports

As Bristol battles to build affordable housing, developers are still gaming the system

The Cable has uncovered a brazen attempt by prolific property developers to escape building affordable housing, at a time when the city is still falling well short of its own targets.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Reports

External shot of a boarded-up Wetherspoons in Bristol, which contains the remains of an art-deco cinema.

Owner of ex-pub and cinema should up his landlord game before developing more flats, say tenants

Alex Turner
Alex Turner

Reports

A CGI image of the proposed Redcatch Quarter, which would replace the Broadwalk Shopping Centre in south Bristol.

Row over shopping centre demolition decision grinds on after government walks away from intervening

Alex Seabrook
Alex Seabrook (Local Democracy Reporter)

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Labour’s Nicola Beech on who’s getting the best deal out of the city: developers or the public?

Why does it sometimes feel like developers are giving the council the runaround? Neil chats to councillor Nicola Beech about the crucial but complex world of city planning.

Neil Maggs Adam Cantwell-Corn George Colwey
Neil Maggs, Adam Cantwell-Corn and George Colwey
Image of Save Redfield Cinema campaigners and UWE students presenting plans at a public meeting (credit: Alex Turner)

Reports

Campaigners seek new community asset listing for pub with hidden cinema in bid to stop flats plan

Alex Turner
Alex Turner
Image of Filwood's Northern Slopes, one of Bristol's prized green spaces (image: Charlie Watts)

Reports

Thousands of Bristolians petition the council to stop building on city’s green spaces

Alex Seabrook
Alex Seabrook (Local Democracy Reporter)

Reports

Image of a digital mockup of the St Mary le Port development plans in Castle Park, Bristol (credit: MEPC)

Community support for Castle Park development was overstated, claim members of local group

Plans to develop the derelict site around St Mary Le Port in central Bristol were approved by councillors, but questions are now being raised about how the views of local residents were used during the process.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Reports

Campaign against Fishponds McDonald’s explores judicial review options

Community campaign considering further legal action against multinational.

Lorna Stephenson
Lorna Stephenson

City

Currently in the Council: 25th July to 5th August

Currently in the Council is our ongoing series to keep you up to date with what’s coming up for discussion in the Council Chamber. It...

Sid Ryan
Sid Ryan