Need to knowRound-up of latest planning applications to Bristol City Council
The tree overhanging a path at Arnos Vale Cemetery (Image: Arnos Vale Cemetery Trust)
A dangerous tree overhanging a road and pedestrian route at Arnos Vale Cemetery by almost 90 degrees will be felled, according to 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 huge new two-sided digital advertising screen and alterations to a McDonald’s.
Here’s this week’s round-up of notable planning applications submitted to the council.
No dates have been set for when the planning applications below will be determined – apart from the cemetery tree which was decided as an urgent matter.
They can be viewed by going to the planning portal on Bristol City Council’s website.
Graveyard tree
A sycamore tilting almost horizontally over a pedestrian route and internal road at Arnos Vale Cemetery in Brislington will be chopped down.
City council officers have approved an emergency five-day request to fell the dangerous tree.
In its application, Arnos Vale Cemetery Trust said: “The tree has bent to an almost 90 per cent angle and hangs above our internal road, busy with pedestrians, and pathway between graves.
The tree overhanging a path at Arnos Vale Cemetery (Image: Arnos Vale Cemetery Trust)
“The stem is currently placing some weight in the crown of another, smaller stem.
“This tree poses a great risk, as if it were to come down on its own, it would do so into the road and pedestrian area.
“Two further stems from the same tree are leaning in a different direction and could have similar consequences in the future.”
The council’s tree officers have granted permission and say a replacement tree is not required.
Huge advertising screens
A large double-sided roadside digital advertising screen would be installed at Malago Road Trade Park in Bedminster.
The screens, measuring 3m x 6m and 2.5 metres above the ground, would operate from 6am until midnight daily, with changes in images as little as once every 10 seconds.
CGI of how the digital advertising screen would look at Malago Trade Park in Bristol(Image: The Thomas Partnership)
Planning consultants said: “The proposed display would not be viewed by any residential property.
“They would be viewed clearly but scaled and positioned so they tie in with the massing of the immediate environment and would not penetrate the skyline.”
They said the screens’ brightness would be within national guidance, adding that they would ‘not be detrimental to visual amenity nor public safety’.
McDonald’s changes
Alterations would be made to a branch of McDonald’s in South Bristol.
The fast-food restaurant in Sheene Road, Bedminster, wants to demolish and relocate the existing lobby to move the entrance doors.
In planning documents, the agents said: “The key changes to the site relate to the demolition of the existing wind lobby on the western elevation, to improve pedestrian flow from the crossing at the south of the site, where 50 per cent of customers enter, and internal modifications.
“The new wind lobby will be erected further north on the same elevation.
“The relocation of the wind lobby will allow an improvement of the operations at the store and does not impact on the capacity of the restaurant.
“There are no changes to the parking provision or operating hours as part of this application.”
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