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The redevelopment plans for Princess Street in Bedminster- view looking east from ‘Block A'(Image: Claridge Architects\/Sam Ellis Design)<\/p>\nThe development would inundate local doctors and be ‘appealing’ to yobs on motorbikesThe redevelopment plans for Princess Street in Bedminster- view looking east from ‘Block A'(Image: Claridge Architects\/Sam Ellis Design)<\/p>\n
A developer proposing what would be the tallest building ever built in South Bristol<\/a> has tweaked its plans – but there are still concerns from both police and the NHS<\/a> over the project. Developers first unveiled their plans<\/a> for a large-scale regeneration project on an industrial estate in Bedminster<\/a> a year ago, but earlier this month submitted revised plans stating it was changing things after feedback from council planners and local residents.<\/p>\n But the development firm Galliard and Apsley House still face something of a battle to convince city councillors to give the go-ahead for the transformation of two industrial estate sites<\/a> on Princess Street, on the other side of the railway line from Victoria Park in Bedminster.<\/p>\n The plans would see four blocks of flats built either side of New Queen Street, as part of the wider Whitehouse Street regeneration project<\/a>, that has been proposed by the city council for the past few years.<\/p>\n One of the blocks would be 22 storeys, with another 12 storeys. The 22-storey block would be the tallest building in South Bristol, overtaking Northfield House in Bedminster, the last and tallest council tower block built in Bristol, in 1969, which is 19-storeys high.<\/p>\n Planning agents Savills submitted the revised plans to City Hall at the start of November, reminding council officers it\u2019s a council plan to sweep away the Whitehouse Street industrial estates<\/a> and replace them with thousands of new homes.<\/p>\n READ MORE: South Bristol neighbourhood with 2,000 homes pictured in new CGIs<\/a>READ MORE: Tallest building in South Bristol’s history proposed in front of Victoria Park<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cAs you will be aware, the development of this site is a key aspiration of the Council\u2019s Whitehouse Street Regeneration Framework<\/a>, and the proposals submitted in April 2025 evolved from an iterative and productive pre-application programme of engagement with the Council and stakeholders which formally began in November 2023,\u201d Savills head of planning Craig O\u2019Brien said.<\/p>\n \u201cFollowing the validation of the planning application on 25 April of this year, a range of comments have been received from officers, consultees, local groups, and members of the public. Further, the project team have held a number of productive meetings and workshops with officers throughout the determination of the application,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n One of the blocks of flats is one storey less than before, and the number of \u2018Build-to-rent\u2019 flats proposed is four fewer too. In total, the plan is to build a purpose-built student accommodation block for 400 students, and a \u2018build to rent\u2019 residential accommodation of 434 flats.<\/p>\n Of those, the developers said they have confirmed that 20 per cent – or 87 flats – will be classed as \u2018affordable\u2019 in planning terms, and will be rented out at around 80 per cent of the rent of the others.<\/p>\n But there are still objections. A total of 457 objections have been registered by city council planners, although some may well be the same people objecting a second time<\/a> to the new revised plans.<\/p>\n NHS concerns<\/p>\n Other objections include NHS bosses. In a new statement this month, the integrated care board which runs primary care in the Bristol area renewed its position that the extra renters and students moving into the development would place too much of a burden on already at capacity local doctors services.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is not sufficient existing primary healthcare capacity locally to address demand generated by the development,\u201d the health chiefs told the city council. \u201cMitigation is therefore required in the form of a financial contribution of \u00a3663,885 towards the capital cost of delivering the additional primary care floorspace required to serve residents of the new development.<\/p>\n \u201cWithout this mitigation, the development would not comply with planning policies,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n The renewed intervention of the NHS is the latest in a series of similar objections from health chiefs to the scale of Bristol\u2019s 2020s tower block boom, which has not been accompanied by investment in local GP surgeries.<\/p>\n The NHS bosses making submissions to the council use complicated formula to work out how much extra demand on local doctors\u2019 surgeries will create from each development – student accommodation is said to create less than regular residential development – and whether local GP surgeries have the capacity to cope with more people.<\/p>\n READ MORE: NHS asks for \u00a32 million from planners for more doctors in Bristol’s housing boom<\/a>READ MORE: NHS needs \u00a33.2m from council to cope with East Bristol regeneration<\/a><\/p>\n In Fishponds, around Temple Meads and in Bedminster and Ashton in particular, the NHS has asked for what amounts to more than \u00a35 million over the past couple of years, but so far not received a penny from City Hall.<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0_TCBR101224PrincessStreetBRI.jpg\")
The redevelopment plans for Princess Street in Bedminster – illustration of the scheme looking across Princess Street(Image: Claridge Architects\/Sam Ellis Design)<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0_TCR_BRI280723DocMeetBRI_02jpeg.jpg\")
A public meeting organised by Action Greater Bedminster, to discuss primary care provision in BS3, included a presentation by James Ingham, Bridge View Medical\u2019s operations director, and Dr Andrew Platt, a partner in the practice(Image: Bristol Live)<\/p>\n
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File picture of a police officer(Image: Derby Telegraph)<\/p>\n