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CHIS Planning Applications Currently and Recently considered

Gill Blakeman, Planning Coordinator
Comments about planning applications to: Planning, Transport and Sustainable Development, Brunel House, St Georges Road, Bristol BS1 5UY. Telephone: 0117 9223976

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This page lists current and recent applications considered. See other planning page for the following information.

Planning Applications Currently and Recently considered

Application No. 08/00656/LA Suspension Bridge Suspension Bridge Road Bristol

13 February 2008:
Type of Application: Listed Building Consent (Alter/Extend)
Proposal: Installation of a new drainage system along both edges of the roadway of the bridge. The existing timber kerbs and their mastic asphalt covering will be removed, along with the cast iron drainage gullies and the timber splashboards. A new drainage channel will be installed, with narrow glass-fibre reinforced polymer (GRP) splashboards and extruded asphalt kerbs.

101 Queens Road


08/00412/F 29 Jan 08: Redevelopment of existing student accommodation to provide four storey residential development comprising 14 no. one, two and three bedroom apartments.
and 08/00413/LC Demolition of existing student accommodation in Conservation Area
24 Oct 07 Refused
This was opposed by virtue of its form, scale, and relationship to surrounding buildings.

06/00811/X/C - 50 Princess Victoria Street

  • 25 February: notification of appeal APP/Z0116/A/08/2066333/NWF 05/00191/F Variation of condition 9 attached to planning permission 05/00191/F to extend opening hours to 08.00 to 22.00 Mondays to Saturdays and 09.00 to 18.00 on Sundays. Write to Planning Inspectorate, Room 3/19A, Temple Quay House, 2 The Square, Temple Quay BS1 6PN (3 copies) by 2 April 08 if you wish to give a statement.
  • January 2008: Application to extend opening hours refused and extend licensing hours (to be heard on 13 Feb 08)
  • October 2007: Application to extend opening hours 07/04751/X
  • 20 September 2006: Alcohol license granted with conditions:
    • alcohol can only be served from 10am
    • alcohol can only be served to people seated at tables (max 48)
    • alcohol must be ancillary to a meal
    • must be a prominant notice advising that alcohol will only be served with a snack
    • only wine, champagne, one lager on tap, one beer on tap may be served
  • On 20 September at 10am, the application for a license will heard at the Council House. Please attend if you wish to make any comments.
    Variation of conditions 2, 3, 4 and 9 attached to planning permission 05/00191/F to increase the percentage of floor space allocated to the café AND to supply hot food.
    Refused (Maggie represented Princess Victoria Street objectors)! at Development Committee Meeting 5 July 2006 despite planners recommending increase in floorspace, opening times and hot food.
    • Max covers from 48 to 60
    • Client will be applying for a license for alcohol
    • Background music will be played
    • It will operate 8:00-22:00 Monday to Saturday (previously agreed to be 20:00), 9:00-18:00 Sunday
    • Rubbish will be collected daily from the streets in black plastic bags

    07/05728/LA & 05730/F – Clifton Observatory, Clifton Down

    21 dec 07: Construction/reinstatement of the first floor     observatory to form viewing terrace and external works.

    Former Rifle Range and Squash Court, Canynge Road.


    07/04551/FB: Clifton Library Princess Victoria Street Bristol BS8 4BX

    Nov 07: withdrawn
    Alterations to the existing courtyard to create a level access for the disabled, cleaning of the existing stone facade and installation of platform lift. Comments you may wish to consider

    07/04197/F & 04198/LA – Trafalgar House, The Promenade

    Erection of a new 3 meter high fence to rear boundary.

    07/03415/F – Polack’s House, 1-3 Percival Road

    Retention of car park and garden walls to rear of property. The invitation is for 'CHIS' to inspect, but it may be that others would like to make their own arrangements to inspect the sample render panel and make comments before 19 November. It is important that the Council gets as many letters (hopefully of objection) as possible as this precedent would drive a coach and horses through everything we have achieved on Canynge Road. All our Conservation Area would be at risk of materials being used which are flagrantly not in keeping.
    Michael would appreciate a note from all who do go, and copy of each letter of objection which should be addressed to:
    The Chief Planning Officer, Environment Transport Leisure , Bristol City Council , Brunel House , St George's Road , Bristol BS1 5UY
    The test of acceptability is whether the render would be in keeping with the rubble stone villas of north Canynge Road. Would it enhance or preserve the Conservation Area? Whether there is harm to the character and appearance of the conservation area? And most importantly, would it blend with the historic architecture of the area, as opposed to the houses of Canynge Square and Canynge Road south?

    07/03577/F – Land at rear of 97 Pembroke Road

    Erection of 1 three bedroom detached dwelling house.

    07/04124/F & 04125/LC – 17 Vyvyan Terrace

    Demolition of existing double garage. Construction of a two-story building comprising garaging at ground floor with accommodation above

    07/04439/F 1-3 Alma Vale Road Bristol BS8 2HL (Edwards Garage)

    Part demolition of existing buildings and erection of a single building providing 64 no. student studios and 3no. student cluster flats with retention of listed facade. Comments you may wish to consider

    ORANGE PCS LIMITED - APPLICATION TO ERECT MOBILE PHONE MAST ON CHRISTCHURCH GREEN, OPPOSITE THE CHURCH


    24 Oct 07 Refused
    CLIFTON and CHIS SAY NO!!!
    APPLICATION NO: 07/03664/F WITH Bristol City Council,
    Site Address: Land Adjacent To Clifton Down Road Bristol
    Proposal: Installation of an 8m high telecommunications lamp post with a Devon equipment cabinet located at ground level with an electric pillar adjacent.
    Applicant Orange PCS Ltd
    E-mail Comments to: north.planning@bristol.gov.uk Orange has applied to site a mobile phone mast on Christchurch Green opposite the church by the bus stop - and you must say 'no' by FRIDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 07 NOW EXTENDED TO 10 OCTOBER. WHAT CAN YOU DO? Write to: David Bishop, Director of Planning, Bristol City Council, Brunel House, St Georges Street, Bristol BS1 5UY (quote the application no above) and the two ward councillors: Barbara.Janke@bristol.gov.uk or Brian Price at brian.price@bristol.gov.uk... or Stephen Williams, MP, House of Commons, London.
    Go online: www:bristol.gov.uk/planning, or Telephone: Mr Angelo Calabrese at Bristol City Council on 0117 922 3058 or north.planning@bristol.gov.uk
    TELL PEOPLE WHAT YOU THINK BEFORE ITS TOO LATE!

    The Avon Gorge Hotel

    Robert Smith Unit, 11 Mortimer Road:Proposed unit to treat class A drug users

    27 September 2006: AWP decide not to pursue the use of 11 Mortimer Road as a drug clinic! The next step would have been on 18 October 2006: Decision by Scrutiny Commission about whether the clinic constitutes a substantial variation of service
    More details about the 9 month fight

    01/02913/F/C - Bridge House, Sion Place and 12 Gloucester Row, Clifton

    July 2006: Permission granted
    14 June 2006: Bristol City Council Planning team have advised the applicant that the proposed roof terrace to Bridge House does not fall within the scope of the 2001 planning permission and therefore has not been formally approved by the local planning authority. The developer has been advised to seek to regularise the situation by submitting an application for permission to undertake the works, which would clearly now be a retrospective application.
    8 June 2006: letter written to Vicky Lewis Environment, Transport & Leisure:
    It would appear that there have been several alterations to the approved plans for this application: All of this is completely unacceptable and we should initially like to register our disquiet.
    It would be appreciated if this letter were recorded as representing the views of all members of the Clifton and Hotwells Improvement Society and not just those of the signatory or of CHIS as a single objector.

    05/00520/LA/C - Clifton Observatory

    Completion of proposed conversion works (what proposed conversion works?) and retention of works for proposed café/restaurant. There has still been no reply to our letter enquiring about the fact that there had been no planning application since 1980. A copy has been sent to Cllr Janke. We have made a study critique on the Observatory bringing old drawings to the attention of English Heritage etc. CAP (the Conservation Advisory Panel) which advises the Council, were concerned that the application for works to a grade 11* listed building must have a conservation strategy report and an archaeological report; neither had been provided. The dome or drum is one of the most important aspects of the building; this has not been included in the application.
    Copy of a letter written to The Editor of the Evening Post 3rd November 2005
    Sir,
    Your editorial comments might carry more force if they were based on facts. CHIS does not oppose the construction of a dome on the Observatory. It welcomes one of appropriate design, as the report in your own newspaper states and in fact, for 30 years have advocated the restoration of this sadly neglected building.
    In the recent court hearing CHIS opposed a dangerous road project not the visitor centre itself. The proposed road is still dangerous, especially to the disabled and children. The Society's funds are not affected by the costs award as you have implied repeatedly since the money has long been pledged separately by supporters.
    Your contempt for proper protection of listed buildings and sites does no service to the city you claim to celebrate.
    If you consult us we will happily provide accurate information.
    Yours faithfully,
    Brian Worthington
    Chairman

    McArthur Warehouse, Gas Ferry Road 8211

    Planning Application 03/01463/X/C and 03/01464/F/C McArthur's Warehouse has featured in Private Eye - not a flattering article with regard to the planning outcome. At the meeting on 16 March 2005, the councillors voted to uphold their original approval, and thus demolish the warehouse. The demolition was agreed by the casting vote of the Chairman, Richard Eddy - the committee were equally divided. Predictable, but very sad.
    After a very great deal of lobbying by the Civic Society, the chair Richard Eddy agreed to reconsider the application at the committee meeting held on Wednesday 16 March. The 10 page report is now on the web and recommends demolition despite the Secretary of State, the Government of the South West, English Heritage, Civic Trust, and the original recommendation of the Central Development Committee report in February 2004.
    14 March Read my letter that I have submitted, demonstrating the weak, contradictory arguments for demolition
    Evening Post 14 March 2005
    Bristol Civic Society is furious over the latest move in a planning wrangle over a redbrick derelict Victorian warehouse near the ss Great Britain. Councillors are being advised to confirm a controversial scheme to tear down McArthur's Warehouse in Gas Ferry Road and replace it with a complex of three buildings up to five storeys high around a courtyard to provide offices, homes, upmarket bars or restaurants and service shops. The Civic Society has come up with its own plan to retain the warehouse, which it believes sets the scene for Brunel's masterpiece nearby.
    An original scheme by Quada developers was given approval by the council's planning committee in September 2000. But before the official approval notices were sent out, the scheme was "called in" by the Secretary of State and a public inquiry was held. The four-day hearing was unusual because the council's planners, who backed the scheme, found themselves cross-examined by the main objectors - the civic society. The outcome was in favour of the Civic Society and therefore planning permission was refused.
    Quada drew up a revised scheme with some modifications, including reducing the maximum height of buildings from seven to five storeys, which was submitted to the city council in May 2003 and not discussed by councillors until eight months later. English Heritage revealed that it was drawing up a report which was assessing the possibility of saving the warehouse and converting it. The council's planning officers suggested deferral so demolition could be further examined. But councillors gave approval, subject to conditions.
    This prompted the Government Office for the South West to put planning approval on hold and it was later called in for a second time. A second public inquiry was expected to be held in February 2005, but English Heritage withdrew its objection on Christmas Eve, which led to the call-in being scrapped. The power to give planning permission has now been returned to the council's planning committee, which discussed the issue on Wednesday.
    Planning officer Ian White says in a report there are no new matters which warrant the councillors changing their minds from previous decisions. But Stephen Macfarlane, of the Civic Society, is furious that a second public inquiry is not going ahead. He said: "If we had been told earlier, then we could have mounted our own case against the scheme. "It's not a bad building which is being proposed - it's just in the wrong place. This site is so important because it provides the backdrop to the ss Great Britain. If the buildings are too high, then the ship is lost. McArthur's Warehouse is so important because it is end-on to the ship, whereas the developer's scheme is to utilise all the dockland behind the ship. We fought this case at the first public inquiry and won. But now we've had the rug pulled from underneath our feet. What's happened is absolutely disgraceful."
    Mr White says in his report that the background work which was done in preparation for the second public inquiry included the viability of saving the old warehouse. This led to a consultant's report which said the warehouse detracted from the character of the area. He said English Heritage withdrew its objection after a partial collapse inside the warehouse which led irs officials to believe that its retention and conversion was only "marginal at best" and therefore not worth fighting at a public inquiry.
    Michael Woodman-Smith would be pleased to provide members with further information, and details of the new material which we have obtained since the committee decided to allow the redevelopment last year. This includes the report commissioned by English Heritage which establishes the viability of the retention and restoration of the warehouse which we believe would create the best setting for the SS Great Britain. We have produced extensive 3D imagery of the proposed redevelopment (both before and after), together with in addition the proposals by SS Great Britain Trust to redevelop their own site with further 6 storey housing.
    McArthurs Warehouse Application The enquiry about MacArthur's Warehouse will not now take place in February 2005. The Secretary of State has handed it back to Bristol City Council. We are trying to get it reconsidered by the Planning Committee.

    This is a historic building directly behind the Great Britain, is one of few original warehouse buildings left in the docks and has associations with Brunel and should not be demolished. Pictures of warehouse and from across the river.

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