City councillors have given planning permission to two major applications that will transform the south west corner of Bristol. The plans, both put forward by Bristol Sport’s billionaire owner Steve Lansdown, will see a 3,626-seat sport and convention centre next door to Ashton Gate, and 510 new homes on a green field site 500 yards away next to Ashton Vale.
It’s been almost 18 months since the plans were first submitted, but were finally passed by the city council’s development control committee on Wednesday night. But it could be a year before anything starts to change around Ashton Gate Stadium or on the field nearby.
The chairman of Ashton Gate Stadium, Martin Griffiths, welcomed the planning approval, but work is not yet done between the stadium and the city council planners. So what happens next?
