helen – Kingsdown Conservation Group

Minutes 27th March 2025

Present were:- Helen Phillips (minutes); Nick Kidwell; Pat Harrad; Ian Worthington; Pauline Allen; Pete Westby; Suzannah Buxton. The launderette on the corner of Portland Street and Cotham Road South has seen some activity, with rubble…

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Post date May 12, 2025
No Comments on Minutes 11th December 2024

Present: Nigel Tasker; Pat Harrad; Nick Kidwell (chair); Helen Phillips ( minutes) ; Ian Worthington. Apologies: Alastair Gambels; Pauline Allen Planning Applications:- 26 KP Proposal to split the site and for Garage to become a…

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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…

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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;…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Post date February 12, 2020
1 Comment on Proposed Multi-Storey University Library and Closure of Roads to Motor Vehicles

The University has now lodged the following application: 20/00433/F | Demolition of existing structures and redevelopment of the site to accommodate a new University of Bristol Library. The creation of an enhanced public realm within the surrounding…