Supermarket giant Asda has told Bristol Live that the news that the car park of its store in Bedminster has become a prime residential development site is news to it, and it know nothing of its status on a 'development map of Bristol', currently on the wall of the head of the Mayor's Office in City Hall.
But Bristol Live understands that Asda doesn't own the land its car park is on, and there are long-standing discussions around potential development between the land owners and agents for developers looking to build new homes on what would be a prime riverside site close to the city centre.
Such a scheme could be built on top of the existing car park with spaces retained underneath - a similar, albeit smaller scale scheme is already being proposed for the council-owned Portwall car park opposite St Mary Redcliffe Church in Redcliffe.
