helen – Kingsdown Conservation Group

A Kingsdown Winter Warmer Indeed!

Post author By helen
Post date January 20, 2026
No Comments on A Kingsdown Winter Warmer Indeed!

You couldn’t get a more neighbourly party than the one held on Sunday evening. The amount of chat and conversations, new connections made and old neighbours reunited, exceeded even Kingsdown’s expectations. The ‘committee’ which organised…

Post author By helen
Post date November 28, 2025
No Comments on Marlborough Hill HGV Petition

There has been repeated problems with large HGV vehicles coming up Marlborough Hill and causing damage to No.6 Kingsdown Parade, the new corner house. The HGV have caused damage to the house when they attempt…

Post author By helen
Post date November 14, 2025
No Comments on Bristol’s Co-Living Supplementary Consultation

Co-Living is a relatively new form of accommodation. It is a purpose-built, short-term residential scheme that provides studio accommodation with access to shared communal facilities under a single management company. It claims to provide a…

Post author By helen
Post date April 22, 2025
No Comments on AGM and Talk ‘Kingsdown’s Wildlife Around the Year’

Our AGM this year will be held at St Matthews Church on Wednesday 7th May. Doors will open at 6.45pm for the start of the AGM business at 7.15. After the election of officers and…

Post author By helen
Post date March 7, 2025
No Comments on Western Harbour Proposals

Also known as the Cumberland Basin Redevelopment, the public viewing of the Western Harbour draft masterplan came to a close on March 9th, 2025. Full of controversy over its replanning of the network of roads;…

Post author By helen
Post date January 29, 2025
No Comments on Broadmead and our Tall Buildings Policy

KCG have commented on all recent major developments at the bottom of our hillside. Here in the historic centre of Bristol, Broadmead and the Bearpit we are about to see a surge in the construction…

Post author By helen
Post date January 21, 2025
No Comments on Premier Inn’s Planning Alterations

The planning application of the Premier Inn, one of the controversial tower blocks which will be arising from around the Bearpit, has submitted minor alterations. So KCG took this chance to send in their…

Post author By helen
Post date August 26, 2021

Evidently discussions have taken place recently about the future of some of the city’s high-rise residential buildings, in particular Dove Street Flats. This Bristol Cable article https://thebristolcable.org/2021/08/high-rises-under-scrutiny-as-council-considers-rebuilding-social-housing/ makes interesting reading.There has been minimal communication with the residents…

Post author By helen
Post date March 4, 2020
No Comments on Proposed new university library and associated road closures Planning application 20/00433/F

4th March 2020, was the formal closing date for comment to be submitted in response to the University’s planning application to build a new library on the site of The Hawthorns. However, it is likely that…

Post author By helen
Post date February 25, 2020
4 Comments on Proposed New University Library and Road Closures

Kingsdown Conservation Group has objected, as follows, to the University’s planning application to build a new library on the site of The Hawthorns, at the corner of Woodland Road and Elton Road, opposite the Grammar…