Plans include a mix of accommodation, including build-to-rent, affordable housing, and student accommodation and commercial spaces
The location of a proposed development on Princess Street in Bedminster, as seen from above Victoria Park. St Mary Redcliffe primary school is in the bottom left, and the development area is immediately above of the railway line – the grey-roofed industrial buildings in between white buildings on either side.(Image: Google Earth)
The first plans have been submitted to Bristol City Council to transform a huge area of industrial estates between Bedminster and Totterdown.
The plans detail the regeneration of the area around Whitehouse Street in east Bedminster, which aims to ‘transform this part of Bedminster from a brownfield industrial estate into a thriving mixed neighbourhood of homes, jobs, and better community, cultural and public spaces’.
According to an official web page which has been set up to provide more information around the development, around 2,000 new homes and up to 15,000m2 of new employment space will be ‘within easy reach of day-to-day amenities, key public transport connections, public services, local centres and further employment opportunities’.
Following a consultation event at Windmill Hill City Farm back in December, the application focuses on the first phase of development at Princess Street.
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It includes a covering letter on behalf of the Galliard Apsley Partnership, which consists of developers Galliard Homes and Apsley House Capital, which own some of the land onto which the current post-war industrial estates have been built.
Proposed development on Princess Street in Bedminster(Image: Galliard Homes)
The letter details four buildings as part of this development – Building A comprising of 114 dwellings over six storeys and including affordable housing, Building B comprising of 134 dwellings for rent across six storeys, Building C comprising of 189 dwellings for rent (build-to-rent) and commercial space in a building between six and 14 storeys, and Building D comprising of 400 purpose-built student accommodation bedspaces across 19 storeys.
There will also be a small number of parking spaces, as well as landscaping, open space, and play space, the application goes on to say.
It comes just five months after BristolLive reported that plans had been unveiled by landowners and developers proposing an initial 850 new homes – almost half of which were reportedly for students and the rest as ‘build-to-rent’ flats.
The new development will be located on part of the large industrial estate that currently occupies land between the railway line and the New Cut River Avon in Bedminster.
Bristol City Council had at the time already published a ‘regeneration framework’ for the entire ‘Whitehouse Lane’ area from Bedminster Parade east to Totterdown, with more than 2,000 new homes planned in what will effectively be a new residential extension to Bedminster on the land below Victoria Park.
Proposed development on Princess Street in Bedminster(Image: Galliard Homes)
At the time, a spokesperson for Apsley House Capital said there would be: “15,000 sqft of new ground floor spaces that could be used for local businesses, by the community, for healthcare and for cafes…depending on what is needed and what works best to create a vibrant place.”
“The ambition for the area is to create a thriving neighbourhood with new homes, better community, cultural and public spaces, and new job opportunities,” he said.
“As part of Bristol City Council’s Whitehouse Street Regeneration, we are proposing to redevelop the land between Princess Street and Whitehouse Street in Bedminster. Our scheme will help kickstart this important regeneration.”
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