Developers have taken the first formal steps to build 225 new flats, including one ‘landmark’ block, on a prominent site in the centre of Bedminster. The plan would see the blocks of flats built on the now-empty former Selco builders merchants next to the railway bridge at the end of Malago Road in Bedminster.
The flats would be ‘build-to-rent’, with around a fifth designated as ‘affordable housing’ and the rest owned, managed and rented out by the developers themselves. Selco closed down in November 2020 and moved up to the Caters industrial estate between Headley Park and Hartcliffe, and Bristol Live first revealed the plans in February 2022 from developer PG Group.
In July, they held a series of public engagement meetings to showcase their plans, and revealed they had two options to propose - one would see lower level blocks of flats closer to the existing flats on West Street and the Lidl store opposite, but with a taller 12-storey building next to the Sheene Way/Malago Road junction. A second plan would see a slightly smaller ‘landmark’ building, but the other buildings slightly higher.
