Detailed planning application for a residential scheme of over 200 homes on a former industrial site in Bedminster, South Bristol.

Ferguson Mann Architects have been working with PG Group to design a residential development in South Bristol. The scheme is being designed to comply with Bristol City Council’s Urban Living SPD, which sets out standards to create high quality, inclusive, interconnected places to live in the city centre. Sitting within the wider context of south Bristol, the site represents a great opportunity to deliver new homes in the centre of Bedminster, with the potential to also improve connectivity of the area. 

The development modulates the scale between the larger mass of the adjacent Airpoint and Monica Wills Buildings and the surrounding low-rise neighbourhood. To the south-east of the site lies a railway line connecting local and national services, and a steeply sloping bank lined with a number of mature trees forms the south-west boundary to the site. The location and orientation of the site lends itself to a taller gateway building facing onto the Sheene Road / Malago Road junction with a lower courtyard element to the south-west. 

Due to the proximity to local amenities and various public transport links, it is proposed that the scheme will be a car-free development as encouraged by Bristol City Council. This meant that FMA, in collaboration with Landscape Architect McGregor Coxall, were able to design a high quality urban realm and maximise the greenspace as much as possible. 

The design process involved multiple consultation events with local residents, Bristol City Council and Design West. This helped to develop the design and encouraged improvements to the urban realm outside the site boundary which will benefit local residents and support any future development. 

3D Landscape Images by McGregor Coxall