This week’s most notable planning applications to Bristol City Council
A CGI of how the 41 homes to replace Ever Ready House at Narroways Road in Eastville, Bristol, would look(Image: Narroways Land)
A disused antiques warehouse would be demolished and replaced with 41 apartments 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 a pub function room on Gloucester Road to be shut and converted into a flat and a new laser tag venue at vacant shops.
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.
Here’s this week’s round-up of notable planning applications submitted to the council.
Warehouse to become 41 homes
A former antiques warehouse in Eastville would be bulldozed and replaced with buildings up to four storeys with 41 apartments.
The site, previously known as Ever Ready House in Narroways Road, off Glenfrome Road, was last used by Robert Mills Architectural Antiques & Reclamation.
A previous application for 40 homes was dismissed by planning inspectors on appeal in March 2024.
In planning documents, the developers’ agents said: “The proposal seeks to deliver a good range of quality house types and sizes, responsive to demonstrable local need.
“The new dwellinghouses are situated in an accessible and sustainable location and make efficient use of previously developed land.
“The proposed scheme improves the setting and visual amenity of Narroways Road through the removal of a large building in close proximity to the existing house and redevelopment to provide a more attractive development, softened by increased areas of green infrastructure and a more open outlook.
“Local highway safety and residential amenity is also enhanced through the removal of a commercial use with potential to generate significant noise, disturbance, activity and vehicular movements on a narrow residential cul-de-sac.
“The courtyard design will not only provide essential parking facilities but also offer residents a shared outdoor space, enhancing their quality of life.”
None of the flats would be affordable because of costs despite council policy saying 30 per cent of them should be.
Pub function room to flat
A first-floor function room above a temporarily closed pub on Gloucester Road would be shut and turned into a one-bedroom flat.
Developers are asking for a change of use of the upstairs room at Gloucester Road Ale House and Kitchen in Bishopston.
There is already an apartment on the second floor.
The loss of the pub’s first-floor toilets would be replaced on the ground floor.
In planning documents, the agents said: “The proposal would result in a small loss of public house floorspace, but not to the extent where it would impact on the viability of the public house.
“The proposal would provide a high standard of accommodation and represent a valuable addition to the housing stock in a sustainable location, with excellent sustainable transport links.”
Laser tag
Four vacant shops would be turned into a new laser tag experience in the city centre.
A company called Laser Tag Leisure wants to move into the property on the corner of Fairfax Street and Nelson Street, where there used to be a barbers, hair salon and retail store.
Offices to recording studio
Offices in Clifton would be turned into a music recording studio.
Developers are asking the council for a lawful certificate under permitted development rights to change the use of Stute House in Sunderland Place, which would bypass the need for planning permission.
The property, a former workshop and garage, was converted into offices 35 years ago.
In planning documents, the agents said: “The applicant proposes to use the building for the creation of visual artwork on the first floor and music production within a soundproofed recording studio on the ground floor.”
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