This week’s round-up of notable planning applications
St Vincent’s Works arch in Silverthorne Lane is the subject of another plan(Image: Google Maps)
Two separate houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) would be turned back into family homes, bucking the trend where the opposite happens, 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 pits to be dug at a listed arch to ensure an energy centre can be created nearby and replacement cladding at a 13-storey, glass-fronted block of flats near Temple Meads.
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.
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.
HMOs back to family homes
An eight-bedroom house in multiple occupation in Redland would be converted back into a single family home.
The property at Alexandra Park would be reconfigured internally and brought back to its original use.
The plans also involve repairing the windows and tidying up the outside.
The house has been used as bedsits since 1994.
In planning documents, the agents said: “It will return the host building to its original and intended use to the benefit of the area
“The development will have no negative effects on surrounding private amenity.”
Meanwhile a five-bedroom HMO in West Street, Bedminster, would also be turned back into a family house.
Planning agents said the two-storey end-of-terrace building on the junction of Bartlett Road would ‘actually improve the character and appearance of the area, provide a suitably sized family dwelling and is therefore considered a positive step in terms of the density of accommodation locally’.
Arch inspections
Trial pits would be dug at the Grade II-listed St Vincent’s Works arch in Silverthorne Lane to check the foundations and structural integrity ahead of plans to create a temporary energy centre in the adjacent car park.
The council’s City Leap partner Vattenfall is asking for permission to carry out the inspections at the former corrugated iron and prefabricated buildings manufacturing factory.
If all goes well, pipework would be placed underneath the archway to the energy centre.
In planning documents, agents said an attached wall, which was part of the listing, would not be affected by the trial holes.
They said the pits would be no deeper than two metres.
The agents said: “It is judged that the proposed works do not affect the special interest of the Grade II-listed St Vincent’s Works, Gateway and Attached Wall to the South West, causing no harm to its significance.”
Replacement cladding at high-rise
Cladding would be replaced at a 13-storey glass-fronted tower block near Temple Meads.
The owners have reviewed all of their buildings and found work needs to be done to The Eye, in Glass Wharf, Temple Quay, to comply with new fire safety regulations.
The property has 72 flats and there is a cafe on the ground floor.
In planning documents, architects said the building would look the same once the cladding and some windows are replaced.