Plans to create a huge 3,600-seater sports arena and convention centre next to Ashton Gate Stadium, along with 510 new homes nearby, look set to get the go-ahead next week after the scheme got the backing of Mayor Marvin Rees and city council planners recommended it be given permission.
The £200 million Ashton Gate Sporting Quarter will see a sports and convention centre, hotel, block of 125 flats, new offices and shops, a multi-storey car park and a club museum built next door to Ashton Gate Stadium in South Bristol.
And, just 500 yards away on half of the land once earmarked for a new stadium a decade ago, some 510 new homes will be built, including at least 150 classed as ‘affordable’.
