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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 comments and the Evening Post in Bristol Live, has quoted part of our submission:

The Kingsdown Conservation Group also objected, saying that the total area of ‘shared space’ in the Co-living block will be reduced, while the number of people living in the building would increase. “The loss of a kitchen on every other floor would mean residents having to go up many floors to access only one kitchen, not much bigger than the kitchens originally serving only two floors, but now expected to serve the entire block, the other kitchen being for private use,” a spokesperson for the group said.

 “The same applies to the shared living provision. This may well be popular with some residents but not everyone will want to move from the isolation in their rooms to having to socialise with the whole block,” they added.

“Smaller living spaces serving people on particular floors are surely desirable? The loss of balconies on each floor is also to be regretted with no compensating increase in the size of the roof terrace. If co-housing is to work it needs to offer something other than just student accommodation dressed up by another name. We are not convinced that this proposal achieves that aim,” they said.

 

Quoted from: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/communal-areas-removed-fit-more-9860097

KCG regularly comments in detail on the city’s major developments, especially any that impact on Kingsdown. The next one to look out for is the Broadmead Neighbourhood Design Code Consultation. This started on 9th December and finishes on 27th January.

https://www.ask.bristol.gov.uk/broadmead-spd

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