A plan to knock down the building housing Za Za Bazaar’s all-you-can-eat restaurant on Bristol’s harbourside and replace it with a much bigger building looks set to be refused by planners because the new building would be ‘oversized and incongruous’.
Councillors will meet next week to make a decision on the planning application submitted by the building’s owners, to redevelop the site and create a new building with four storeys and new bars and shops on the ground floor. But in a report to the councillors on the planning committee, Bristol City Council’s planning officers say they think proposal should be refused, because the size and scale of the new building would be out of place with the others on the harbourside.
The applicant is listed as BEGG (Nominees) Limited - although that pension fund and property investment company changed its name last November to DEFG instead. A company calling itself CBRE Investment Management launched a website when its plan to demolish the building that houses Za Za Bazaar was first revealed by Bristol Live in November 2021.
