Bristol City Council<\/a>, has explored how many homes could be built on the car park and discussed their plans with the trust that runs the historic ship. The development raises questions about how tourists would visit the SS Great Britain instead.<\/p>\nAn update on the latest housing plans in Goram\u2019s pipeline was given to councillors on the strategy and resources policy committee on Monday, June 16. Of the 153 homes planned, 92 would be for sale, 47 would be social rent, and 14 would be affordable home ownership.<\/p>\n
Stephen Baker, managing director of Goram Homes, said: \u201cWe\u2019ve looked at a capacity study for the site, so we\u2019ve worked out what is the art of the possible. There\u2019s a requirement to talk to trust about car parking.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere have been a number of changes at the SS Great Britain Trust recently and I met with the new chief exec in the last six months. He has explained to me that they\u2019re on a programme of forming their long term plan.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we\u2019ve said is at the moment there\u2019s no immediate plans for us to take forward the redevelopment of the car park. We\u2019ll maintain dialogue with the SS Great Britain Trust and work together, and see how their plans emerge for their future use of the car park. But for now, it\u2019s not on our immediate pipeline of work that we\u2019re doing in the next 12 months.\u201d<\/p>\n
The car park is owned by the council and leased to the trust. Goram hasn\u2019t yet applied for planning permission. The developer has pledged to work with \u201csurrounding businesses and residents\u201d as plans for the site are taken forward.<\/p>\n
Green Councillor Patrick McAllister, representing Hotwells and Harbourside, said: \u201cThe trust is quite open to discussions. They just want to make sure that access for visitors to their site is protected and they would be very happy for that to be done by a public transport hub and so on.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn terms of revenue that the council gets from the site, we\u2019ll probably get more in council tax from a housing development than we do from the car park. But this is all very much further down in the pipeline. We don\u2019t really know any specifics yet, so it\u2019s a bit hard to make judgements on it at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A council-owned developer has already explored how many homes could be built there 17:00, 23 Jun 2025Updated 17:18,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,3893,748,393,2826,4884,800,21513,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-208188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-bristol-city-council","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-golf","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-harbourside","15":"tag-ss-great-britain","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114733811343545980","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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The SS Great Britain is one of Bristol’s most famous and popular visitor attractions.(Image: mattbuck)<\/p>\n