2015

Moves for massive improvements in MetroWest, Bristol’s suburban railway system, are now under way. Dreams of campaigners for many years are about to become reality.

These six listed Redcliffe Parade houses are a conspicuous landmark above the harbour. Currently, they are empty offices. The insensitive 1970s office conversion of nos. 3– 8 Redcliffe Parade West caused significant harm to the previously six separate Georgian townhouses.

1-4 Portland Square, St. Pauls The scheme would create 40 new apartments from an empty and unlettable office block. The Portland Square elevation is Grade I listed, which is rare in Bristol. The building behind the facade is a concrete frame structure built after bomb damage. The Society supports the proposal, which would return an

St. George’s Music Trust has ambitious plans to repair the church, refurbish the crypt and hall and to build an extension in the garden. The plan includes the creation of new entrances, building a garden facing cafe/bar, foyer, and a box office.

City and Country propose to redevelop Regents House and Consort House. Only the Grade II listed facades of the former Imperial Tobacco headquarters remain. The scheme would convert the offices to flats use and build new blocks of flats on the car park at the back in St. John’s Road.

The Council believes that there is a better way to manage Temple Gate to develop it into a destination worthy of a European Green Capital with new buildings, public realm, including a new public square, of the highest quality.