Bristol City Council has lost a legal battle over plans to build 62 homes on the former Bristol Zoo car park site. Despite residents’ fears that the development would be a “major scar on the landscape”, councillors approved the plans last year.
But a judicial review has now said the council had not taken Historic England's advice and its plans were not legal. The review concluded that the plans failed to 'properly consider the level of heritage harm' and to 'accurately' 'take into account advice from Historic England'.
Bristol Zoological Society, which owns the West Car Park in College Road, Clifton, said it would submit plans for housing on the car park and the main zoo site when it announced last year it would sell the land and move the zoo into the Wild Place Project in South Gloucestershire.
