Plans to redevelop a Bristol city centre park, and build new accommodation for hundreds of people on the site, have been submitted.
Developer Greystar is proposing to replace the NCP Car Park on Rupert Street with a new 400-space facility, and construct new residential buildings, offering 249 co-living and 328 student rooms. According to BusinessLive’s sister website BristolLive, the firm intends to demolish the existing car park, which helps serve central hospitals and the Broadmead shopping quarter, to make way for a series of tower blocks of up to 21-storeys high.
Among Greystar’s proposals for the development are a new ground floor community area for people to “eat, drink, create, shop and socialise”. Bosses at the company said its its regeneration plans for the “run-down” NCP building would help provide “affordable, flexible and convenient” rental homes for key-workers and young professionals
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Senior director Neil Howells said: “In response to feedback from local residents, we have changed our plans so that the ground floor space not only brings life to this neglected part of town but provides a new, discounted home where community organisations and charities can prosper.
“This is an opportunity to make better use of the existing NCP Car Park, creating sustainable homes for people in the centre of the city and providing high quality green space for the residents. We want to turn the existing car park into a place the local community can be proud of”.
Greystar said its proposals were expected to be considered by one of Bristol City Council’s development control committees later this year.
BristolLive previously reported that after the plans were first revealed in December, building conservationists started a campaign to get the car park, built in 1960, preserved as a listed building. According to the 20th Century Society, the NCP car park is one of the earliest examples of a multi-storey car park using a sloped spiral ramp.
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