Former mayor George Ferguson has slammed proposals to demolish the Debenhams store in Broadmead and built a 28-storey block of flats in its place, describing it as a ‘f***ing insult to Bristol’.
In an expletive-laden reaction, the architect, who was Mayor between 2012 and 2016, said the proposals for the site between Horsefair and the Bearpit were ‘more monstrous cr** architecture’ which he said was ‘wrecking our fine city’.
Mr Ferguson’s reaction to the news broken by Bristol Live yesterday of the plans for the former Debenhams site was certainly among the strongest of a huge response, and it wasn’t all negative either, the proposals for 520 new ‘build-to-rent’ flats was mixed, with some people supportive of the idea.
