Developers behind ambitious plans for hundreds of new homes and a ‘Sporting Quarter’ next to Ashton Gate Stadium have overcome a major objection to the scheme over flooding. The objection had threatened to scupper the entire project.
Bristol Sport owner Steve Lansdown and his team want to build more than 500 new homes on a green field site on the edge of Bristol - which will help pay for a basketball arena, conference centre, hotel and flats next to the stadium. But the plans had been thrown into doubt earlier this summer when the Environment Agency formally objected, saying it would be a flood risk. It meant Bristol City Council could not give planning permission without the entire scheme being referred to a Government minister.
But now, Bristol Live can reveal the Environment Agency has now withdrawn its objection after Bristol Sport tweaked the plans to overcome it, and is no longer standing in the way of the development happening. The Lansdown family’s property and development company Esteban Holdings has applied for outline permission for up to 510 new homes on around half the land where a new stadium was proposed more than 10 years ago, between Ashton Vale and the Long Ashton Park and Ride site on the A370.
