A hotel in Bristol could be replaced with two huge residential tower blocks, under new plans.
The Premier Inn site next to the St James Barton roundabout, known as The Bear Pit, has been sold by the chain's parent firm Whitbread for redevelopment. Whitbread said it had decided to offload the 20-storey building, originally built as the offices for Avon County Council in 1972, due to its age and maintenance costs.
Among developer Olympian Homes’ proposals for the site are a 28-storey student accommodation building providing 445 beds, which if approved would make it one of the tallest buildings in the city.
