This week’s most notable planning applications to Bristol City Council
How the new homes at Redford Crescent in Withywood would look (Image: Bristol City Council/Emmett Russell)
Nineteen council homes would be built across two sites under 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 bulldozing 16 garages and replacing them with three bungalows and the demolition of former offices at a bus depot.
Here’s this week’s round-up of notable planning applications submitted to the council.
The majority of applications are decided by planning officers at the council under delegated powers.
However, some 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.
Nineteen council homes
Twelve homes would be built by the council on backland behind rear gardens in Withywood and another seven in St Anne’s.
The dozen family houses for the South Bristol site, off Redford Crescent, comprise nine two-bed properties and three with three bedrooms.
In planning documents, architects said: “We have proposed a row of houses that back on to the gardens of numbers 34-48 Redford Crescent.
“These are council-owned properties that do not have any rear access from the site.
“This back-to-back arrangement provides enhanced security for both the new and existing houses.
“The layout will allow for a large area of public open space to be created towards the centre of the site and also the retention of the public right of way across the site.
“The main access from the south will be widened to 6m and designed as a shared surface that is safe and functional to use.
“To achieve this, a slither of land on either side that is within the curtilage of adjoining council-owned properties will be used.
“The existing northern entrance will be retained for pedestrian use.”
Meanwhile, seven council homes – four two-bedroom flats, two three-bed flats and a two-bedroom bungalow – and a play area would be built on a car parking area in Wootton Road, St Anne’s.
Architects wrote: “The site currently has a high amount of antisocial behaviour.
“The proposal will improve this by giving the site a more active use with natural surveillance over the street and adjacent green space.”
Planning agents added: “There will be no off-street car parking provided but instead, new on-street parking will be created in the form of a new parking bay and footway inbound to create on-street parking with a widened carriageway.”
Both applications are by the council’s housing delivery team and funded by its ring-fenced housing revenue account.
Bungalows for garages site
Sixteen residential garages would be demolished and three bungalows built in Brislington.
Missing fencing and a broken gate at the entrance mean unauthorised vehicles park at the site at Capgrave Crescent.
In planning documents, the applicants said this would be addressed with a new fence and secure gate and that the existing access rights had been legally established for the three properties only.
They said: “The proposal is for small-scale residential dwellings rather than the typical terrace properties within the immediate vicinity.
“The appearance of the scheme has been designed to integrate carefully into the existing site.”
Bus depot offices replacement
Unused offices at Lawrence Hill bus depot would be knocked down and a replacement built.
FirstBus is asking if prior approval is required to bulldoze the building next to the entrance.
The company said in planning documents that the building was in a poor state of repair and was not needed.
It said a separate application for a new office building had already been submitted to the council.
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