It is the biggest regeneration project in South Bristol - replacing an ageing shopping centre with a massive residential and leisure development. But people in Knowle have voiced their concern at the plans to turn the Broadwalk Shopping Centre into the new ‘Redcatch Quarter’ - and say that while they want to see regeneration - the proposals for 800 new homes in three 12-storey buildings are just too much for the area.
People living in and around the Wells Road in Knowle have lived with the knowledge that the days are numbered for their shopping centre. But it is what replaces it that is the issue.
There are few people calling for the Broadwalk Shopping Centre to be preserved as it is now. Shopping habits have changed drastically with the dawn of the internet age and home delivery, and that process has only spiralled with the covid pandemic.
