A plan to build student flats and business workshops to transform one of Bristol’s most notorious side streets looks set to be turned down by planners - because what’s being proposed will cause ‘substantial harm’ to the neighbourhood.
Developers say the plan for student flats, workshops, new homes and the refurbishment of a row of terraced shops and flats on Stokes Croft would completely transform Hepburn Road, the side street that was nicknamed ‘Crack Alley’ and had an entire episode of the BBC TV documentary series ‘Drugsland’ dedicated to it in 2017.
But council planners are recommending the plans should be refused, because of the ‘substantial harm’ demolishing old buildings and building new ones would do to the ‘special characteristics’ of the area.
