The Government is to be asked to step in and hold its own public inquiry into controversial plans for a major development in Bristol city centre - a move that has sparked a spat on social media between the the city’s past and present mayors.
Bristol Civic Society has asked planning ministers to ‘call in’ a plan for nine-storey tower blocks at the High Street end of Castle Park, at a site known as St Mary le Port.
The plan, which would replace some of the city’s worst eyesore buildings on the corner of Wine Street and the High Street and replace them with a new complex of offices and shops, has already been given planning permission.
