The car park at Asda’s store in Bedminster has been earmarked for potential housing development, according to a new map showing present and future development sites in and around Bristol city centre. The map, which was produced by a Bristol property agency, is currently on the wall of the Mayor’s Office at City Hall, and shows the large area of the car park between the store and Coronation Road as a site for future residential development.
Bristol Live understands land agent Avison Young consulted with Bristol City Council to put together the map, entitled Bristol Development Map 2023, which has been distributed around the building and property industry within the city in the past weeks.
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The map includes scores of development sites from the relatively small - like the long-standing plans for new offices where the derelict Grosvenor Hotel now stands - to the major schemes for thousands of homes at places like Temple Quarter, Whitehouse Street and Bedminster Green.
Each of the sites are flagged as somewhere where development is either happening, has planning permission or has potential for a future development. Almost all of the sites on the map have been the subject of reports by Bristol Live as part of our ongoing coverage of the housing crisis and the huge plans for tens of thousands of new homes in and around the city centre.
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But there are several that have not yet been the subject of any announcements or publications of future plans or consultations. Among those is the designation of the car park at Bedminster Asda for future development. The car park there covers an area of around four acres, and currently includes a self-service petrol station. With major developments at Whitehouse Street, Mead Street, Bedminster Green and the Factory No1 complex in Bedminster, the site would be a prime development location, facing the banks of the River Avon across Coronation Road.
Bristol Live understands the car park was included as part of a council strategic planning project which is considering all car parks in and around the city centre as potential sites for development. Any project at Asda’s car park could be a larger scale but similar development to the principle of an existing plan to build flats on top of the Portwall car park opposite St Mary Redcliffe Church in Redcliffe - a plan which would see the existing car park retained, and the new homes built on pillars or stilts above the car park.
A similar development already exists on the other side of Bedminster Parade at the Squires Court development at Bedminster Bridge roundabout, which has hundreds of flats built above a ground-level car park.
Avison Young declined to share a detailed electronic version of the map with Bristol Live, and there was no word from Asda itself about whether it had been having any discussions with developers about the future of its car park and petrol station - Bristol Live has asked Asda about the map and is awaiting a response.
Other sites earmarked on the Avison Young map include the redevelopment of part of Broadmead, closest to Cabot Circus - something which has been talked about for years, but not happened yet - the demolition of The Galleries shopping centre and car park and creation of a new city centre neighbourhood, the eventual redevelopment of the Lloyds Amphitheatre buildings, and the potential of building residential homes along the south bank of the River Avon on the Bath Road in Totterdown, on the city side of the Totterdown Bridge, opposite the new Boat Yard tower block.
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